Staff Engineer

Job Title - Staff Engineer Location - Chennai/Bangalore/Delhi About Tazapay Tazapay is a cross border payment service provider. We offer local collections via local payment methods, virtual accounts and cards in over 70 markets. The merchant does not need to create local entities anywhere and Tazapay offers the additional compliance framework to take care of local regulations and requirements. This results in decreased transaction costs, fx transparency and higher auth rates.

They are licensed and backed by leading investors. www.tazapay.com

What’s exciting waiting for You? This is an amazing opportunity for you to join a fantastic crew before the rocket ship launch. It will be a story you will carry with you through your life and have the unique experience of building something ground up and have the satisfaction of seeing your product being used and paid for by thousands of customers. You will be a part of a growth story be it anywhere - Sales, Software Development, Marketing, HR, Accounting etc. We believe in a culture of openness, innovation & great memories together.

Are you ready for the ride? Find what interesting things you could do with us.

About the Staff Engineer role

Responsibilities (not exhaustive)

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

Be a role model for engineers, 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

Join our team and let's groove together to the rhythm of innovation and opportunity!