Software Engineer III - Backend

At Jupiter, we are building a new age personalised mobile-first, AI-based digital bank. We are a fast-paced tech startup that relentlessly innovates each day to make banking more accessible and transparent for our customers.

Over the past year, we have built a strong leadership team. We are looking for passionate team players who can join us in building the bank of the future!

Why join Jupiter?
• Jupiter is started by Jitendra Gupta, who is a serial entrepreneur. He has built & exited businesses in the past.
• We have the right team that has built successful payments & banking businesses in the past, as well backed by top firms such as Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners and NuBank.
• The market is huge and ready for disruption. The youth deserves and appreciates a better customer experience than traditional banking.
• More importantly, YOU can fast track your career at Jupiter and be the go-to person in Neo-banking!

Tech at Jupiter

Jupiter is a Tech-first company with high ownership and extreme customer centricity. We build several products across multi-business lines such as banking, payments, investments and lending. You will have the opportunity to learn and contribute cutting edge tech in developing several 0-1 and 1-100 products across the portfolio; moreover, you’ll have a lot of ownership in doing so.

Our team consists of Mobile, Platform, Data and ML Engineers, Data scientists, Data Analysts & Data annotators. We use machine learning, AI and behavioural science to build world-class banking experience for our customers.

What you'll do?
• Lead end-to-end a product/platform initiative requiring technical leadership with other engineering, product and design teams.
• Provide a system-wide view, design and architecture guidance to the SDEs
• Write extensible and maintainable code
• Make architectural/technical trade-offs between short-term vs. long-term technology needs
• Resolve the root causes of software architecture deficiencies (e.g., scaling problems, bottlenecks, performance issues, data quality issues, etc.)
• Mentor and grow technical leaders in the engineering organisation

What makes you a great fit?
• 5+ years experience building backend microservices; familiarity with the Kubernetes ecosystem
• Writes extensible and maintainable code on the JVM stack using either Java or Kotlin
• Ability to break software features down into components that can be developed in parallel and then reassembled successfully into a cohesive feature launch
• Able to work on complex, ambiguous problem areas those have visible risks/constraints/roadblocks such as performance, scalability, data quality, extensibility
• Ability to make architectural tradeoff decisions
• Understanding of various application security principles and experience with building applications secure by design
• Able to resolve the root causes of software architecture deficiencies
• Advanced working experience in public cloud such as AWS - Kubernetes ecosystem, datastores such as Postgres/Redis/Dynamo DB, messaging systems such as Apache Kafka/SQS
• Experience with monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana and alerting systems