Backend Engineer- SDE II

Required Experience

3 - 6 Years

Skills

"Backend"

Are you passionate about solving roadblocks & challenges faced by MSMEs in India?

MSMEs contribute significantly to India's total GDP. 90% of India's ~$1 Trillion Retail Market is controlled by Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Which means ~$900B worth of commerce flows through these ~60M MSMEs in the form of shops/kiosks/homes, scattered all over the country. We at Khatabook, have a vision to empower MSMEs and help them increase their incomes. We have built a product that brings efficiency in MSME operations by providing them easy to use tools to manage their receivables, inventory and billing which creates transparency in their cash flow. Within the Khatabook platform, we have also enabled the facility to take loans for their short term working capital needs for select Khatabook users that are displaying good credit behavior. Our app has been downloaded over 100 Million times with a monthly active user base of 8 Million+ which are adding 220 Million+ transactions with a transaction value of $18 Billion.

Why work with us?

People are our biggest asset At Khatabook, every one of us is a dynamic superstar. We have carefully bred an ecosystem which hires nothing but incredibly and exceptionally talented people who can dream, collaborate, experiment, and break new ground. We're a strong team that looks out for each other.

Your role:

We, at Khatabook, are looking for a SDE 2 - Backend to help streamline the lending backend service.

What would you do at Khatabook?

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable backend architectures.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and testable code.
• Inspire and mentor junior developers to produce excellent code and follow engineering best practices
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and DevOps teams to build robust systems and seamless data flows
• Take complete ownership of product features — from design to deployment
• Ensure top-notch performance and experience for both internal engineers and external users.Build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable client-facing and internal APIs
• Writing unit-tests code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Take ownership of product/features: end to end development with testing

What are we looking for?

• 3+ years of intense experience writing production backend services at scale
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structures, Object Oriented Design and Databases
• Deep understanding of SQL database architecture - data modelling and scalable schema design
• Working knowledge of message queues, NoSQL databases & caching systems
• Good understanding of cloud platform (AWS or GCP) and building services for scale
• Bonus points for experience with Java, Nodejs,Typescript, Lending or Payments domain

Individuals who resonate with Khatabook values - High ownership, problem solving, collaboration

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About Company

About Khatabook

We exist to empower India's 60 Million strong MSMEs. Our users' motives, methodology, expectations and behaviour are significantly different from our own when they interact with the internet and technology ecosystem which makes it harder to build for them, to solve that. Our first offering – is an Android App that has been downloaded over 10 crore+ times, which has resulted in having an active merchant base of over 9 million users.

As more businesses are adopting digital for business than ever before, Khatabook's goal can be summed up simply - Empowering merchants by simplifying their business by

• Building a complete business management platform.
• Helping businesses increase their incomes by providing them the power of technology and ammunition of insights & digital reports.
• Offering a platform catering to the specific needs of the MSME space.

We are an equal opportunity workplace. We expect your authentic, original selves at work always and stand against discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, gender, religion or background.

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