Tech lead

careers.bitkraft.vc - Jobboard; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Join careers.bitkraft.vc - Jobboard in Bengaluru as a senior backend engineer, responsible for designing and scaling backend services. You will mentor a team, set engineering standards, and bridge technical decisions with business needs.

The ideal candidate has over 8 years of programming experience, specifically in Golang and database management. Familiarity with fintech platforms is a plus, ensuring high performance and scalability in applications.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of strong programming expertise in Golang and databases.
• Experience in building user-focused fintech platforms.
• Knowledge in data structures and algorithms for performance.
• Experience with microservices and service-oriented architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and own scalable backend services for Financial Instruments.
• Set engineering standards and conduct design reviews.
• Drive end-to-end projects and run fast experiments.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of ownership.
• Translate business needs into technical decisions.

Skills

Golang programming

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

REST API development

Cloud platforms (GCP)

Kubernetes

Docker

Data Structures and Algorithms

Cache-store/message brokers

Job description

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Systems Design - Design and own scalable, low-latency backend services from the ground up for various Financial Instruments. Make deliberate tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and speed of delivery.
• Technical Leadership - Set engineering standards, conduct design reviews, and raise the technical bar across the team - in code, architecture, and process.
• Execution - Drive projects end-to-end with a bias for speed. Run fast experiments with product and design, then scale what works.
• Engineering Culture - Mentor engineers, build a culture of ownership, and make the team around you better.
• Cross-functional Alignment - Translate business and product requirements into sound technical decisions. Be the bridge between engineering and stakeholders.
• Firm-wide Impact - Identify and fix systemic bottlenecks. Think beyond your team.

Requirements

• 8+ years of strong programming expertise in Golang and databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
• Experience in building scalable, user-focused fintech platforms focused on investments, trading, wealth management, or market analytics would be a plus.
• Experience in building highly scalable REST APIs that align with StockGro's needs.
• Strong knowledge of databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.
• Experience in building scalable customer-facing applications that are high-performance, highly available, highly transactional, low latency, and massively distributed.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Experience in designing and developing service-oriented architecture.Experience with cache-store/message brokers like Redis, RabbitMQ,or Kafka.Understanding of GCP, Kubernetes, and Docker is beneficial.Interest in learning new languages/frameworks as needed.
• Experience working in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.