Qrata - Senior Software Developer - Backend Technologies

Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Who are we :

Backed by Tiger Global, Matrix and Elevation VCs, a mission-oriented fintech start-up building a suite of payments and financing products to simplify fee collections for educational institutions and make education spending more convenient and affordable for parents. We work with 700+ institutions and process fees for over 100K students today. We pride ourselves on being customer-first. As - Product Engineers-, we shape the next generation payments stack for educational institutions.

We believe in :

- Staying lean and simple

- Faster iterations; Quick incremental delivery

- High ownership and high responsibility - commit and deliver

- Continuous improvement, be better every single day

- All hands on deck, being hands-on

- Creating impact and taking pride in what we build #buildforindia

What are we building ?

- Payments Infrastructure: Build strong lending and payment rails that will form the foundation of everything we do

Consumer Experience: Build an excellent consumer product that helps parents achieve their goal of making education fee payments with ease

- Partner Institute Experience: Build an intuitive revenue management platform for our institutes that helps them forecast and reconcile cash flows

- Internal Tooling: Build on the in-house CRM, loan management, reconciliation systems, onboarding and data visualization tools to help internal teams do their best work and serve our institutes and parents efficiently

Who will excel at this role :

We are looking for someone who :

- Has 3+ years of experience working as a Backend Developer in high-growth consumer internet companies

- Is proficient in building RESTful APIs, has a strong understanding of relational and non-relational databases

- Prior working knowledge of Python/Django is a big plus

- Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools

- Knowledge of AWS or any other Cloud Platform services

- Ability to analyze and convert business requirements into technical requirements

- Has a high sense of ownership and a bias for action

- Is a people's person and can lead without authority

What will they be responsible for ?

- They will work on one or more of the tracks mentioned above

- Own the end-to-end delivery - design, execute, test and deploy

- Work as an individual contributor, champion code quality

- Build and train a team of rockstar engineers as the organization grows

Why should this role excite you ?

We are just getting started and people who join us at this juncture will :

- Do fulfilling, high-impact work

- Work directly with the founders and engineering leads

- Own and deliver, get complete ownership of whatever you do

- Work with colleagues from strong diverse backgrounds

- Solve a problem that millions of Indians are emotionally attached to but hasn- t seen any innovation

- Learn and grow at an unprecedented pace

Tactical details :

- Current stack: Python/Django, React, Kafka, Docker, AWS

- Location : Bengaluru (Work from office)

- Compensation : Structured as Fixed + ESOPs
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