Software Engineer - Backend

Xflow Payments Inc; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

A fintech infrastructure company in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to design and maintain innovative payment solutions. Responsibilities include building reliable APIs, mentoring engineers, and driving technical initiatives while embracing a culture of excellence in engineering practices. The ideal candidate has 5-6 years of experience in software development, a strong foundation in computer science, and proficiency in programming languages like Ruby, Python, or Java.

Qualifications

• 5–6 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong foundation in computer science with knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
• Highly proficient with at least one programming language.

Responsibilities

• Ideate and validate product requirements in collaboration with product teams.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable APIs.
• Define critical system and business metrics to maintain uptime.

Skills

Problem-solving

API design

Debugging

Mentorship

Education

B.E or B.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Ruby

Python

Java

C++

Job description

Xflow is cross-border payments infrastructure that provides businesses access to global markets, starting with those in India and subsequently other parts of South & South East Asia. We are enabling users to accept and payout money globally in a simple, reliable, compliant, transparent and financially compelling manner.

Building payments infrastructure is hard, and elegantly solving for cross-border payments infrastructure for businesses even more so. The complexity stems from the different changing regulatory requirements of the many countries that we will operate in, building payment guarantees in existing rails (or for that matter, creating a new payment rail altogether) and capturing value in a way where we are net additive to our users.

Finally, and we cannot stress this enough, culture eats everything else for breakfast. We aim to be an engineering driven company that believes finance problems are rooted in code and strongly prefer individuals who share a similar belief.

You will:

• Ideate, define, validate and refine product requirements in collaboration with product, and subsequently come up with engineering solutions for the finalized product requirements.
• Design solutions for problem statements with a fair degree of fuzziness with the right abstractions and separation of concerns.
• Design, build, and maintain APIs that users can rely on for decades.
• Develop domain models and implement business logic with suitable class design.
• Identify common reusable components as libraries, utilities and services and promote reuse.
• Define critical system and business metrics and alerts to maintain system uptime and business continuity.
• Solve complex problems in an innovative way and deliver quality solutions while taking ownership and accountability of assigned things.
• Set a standard in sustainable engineering by defining best practices, producing best in class code, external and internal documentation, and testing.
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Meet with users to gather feedback, and take pride from working on projects that solve acute real world problems.
• Lead multiple tracks of work simultaneously, balancing short-term deliverables with long-term architectural thinking.
• Contribute to and influence infrastructure and security decisions, ensuring robustness, scalability and compliance.
• Help drive engineering culture by setting high standards, mentoring peers, and advocating for best practices.

You have:

• B.E or B.Tech in Computer Science or any equivalent degree.
• 5–6 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and their space-time complexities.
• Highly proficient with at least one language (e.g: Ruby, Python, Java, C++, etc.).
• Ability to convert design into efficient code fluently.
• Own and drive technical initiatives with a small group of engineers.
• Strong mentorship experience or built services ground up.
• Good exposure to scale and non-functional optimisations.
• The skills and inclination to think rigorously about API design and diving deep into the details.
• Dealt with solving ambiguous problems and can think laterally when faced with a new problem.
• Excellent debugging skills.
• Experience working across infrastructure and/or security aspects is a plus.
• Ability to drive engineering culture and influence technical direction beyond immediate teams.

Bonus Points if you have:

• Experience working in the Fintech / Payments industry.