Tazapay - Staff Engineer - Backend Development

Tazapay; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Tazapay seeks an accomplished senior backend engineer in Chennai, India to design and deliver scalable, secure distributed systems. You will mentor engineers, lead architectural decisions, and drive AI-powered productivity across teams.

You will coordinate with product, DevOps, Data and QA to ensure robust, low-latency RESTful services and thoughtful data models. Strong leadership and ownership are essential.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Golang, Ruby, Python, .Net Core or Java for large scale applications.
• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures.
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms like AWS or similar.
• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services.
• Data modeling experience in Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design.

Responsibilities

• Make architectural tradeoffs, design, write and deliver highly scalable, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems.
• Be a role model for engineers and mentor engineers.
• Demonstrate technical leadership and create impact across teams.
• Apply AI for productivity and for features.
• Drive software development while being secure and compliant.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• Partner with the product management teams to define and execute the feature roadmap.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design.
• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies.
• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution.
• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight.
• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies.
• An enormous sense of ownership.
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization.

Skills

Golang

Python

Java

C++

Distributed systems

Data modeling

RESTful services

Linux

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Linux

Job description

• Make architectural tradeoffs, design, write and deliver highly scalable, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems.


• Be a role model for engineers and mentor engineers.


• Demonstrate technical leadership and create impact across teams.


• Apply AI for productivity and for features.


• Drive software development while being secure and compliant.


• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.


• Partner with the product management teams to define and execute the feature roadmap.


• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design.


• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies.


• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution.


• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight.


• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies.


• An enormous sense of ownership.


• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Make architectural tradeoffs, design, write and deliver highly scalable, reliable, secure and fault tolerant systems.


• Be a role model for engineers and mentor engineers.


• Demonstrate technical leadership and create impact across teams.


• Apply AI for productivity and for features.


• Drive software development while being secure and compliant.


• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.


• Partner with the product management teams to define and execute the feature roadmap.


• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design.


• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies.


• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution.


• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight.


• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies.


• An enormous sense of ownership.


• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization.

The Ideal Candidate

Education :

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems.

Experience

• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Golang, Ruby, Python, .Net Core or Java for large scale applications.


• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment.


• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures.


• Expert in at least 1 of the following languages : Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++.


• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms like AWS or similar.


• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking.


• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services.


• Hands-on coder who has built backend services that handle high volume traffic.


• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling.


• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability.


• Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases.


• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design.


• Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with good degree of predictability.


• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks.


• Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems.


• Ability to get stuff done!

Nice To Have

• Familiarity with Golang ecosystem.


• Prior experience with fintech and payments.


• Prior experience with stable coins, blockchain, cryptocurrency technologies.


• Familiarity with front end technologies.

Abilities And Traits

• Ability to drive agile best practices.


• Ability to drive secure best practices.


• Ability to provide exceptional attention to details of the product.


• Ability to rapidly prototype, build proof of concepts and develop them to production.


• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions.


• Work well as a team player and help the team members to resolve issues.


• Be committed to quality and be structured in approach.


• Excellent and demonstrable concept formulation, logical and analytical skills.


• Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills.

(ref:hirist.tech)