Sr. Software Engineer Backend

at  Jar
• Posted - more than a month ago
Bengaluru
7 - 10 Years
0 - 100 L
Highlights


$86.5M
Total Funding
Employee Growth
Time to Revert
6 days
Median Time to Shortlist
5 days
Median Time to Interview
No. of female employees
Total Funding
$86 M
Latest Funding
$ M
Series B Jun 2022
Job Description
About Jar
Jar is a daily gold savings app that lets users save money by taking spare change from their online transactions and investing it in digital gold automatically. Jar is the first Made in India app to come up with an innovative solution to save money daily and invest automatically in digital gold for the best gold rate. We want to help millions of Indians rediscover the undeniable, cumulative advantages of saving every single day and are backed by a clutch of high-profile investors, including Arkam Ventures, Tribe Capital, WEH Ventures, and angels including Kunal Shah (founder of CRED), Shaan Puri (formerly with Twitch), Ali Moiz (founder of Stonks), Howard Lindzon (founder of Social Leverage), Vivekananda Hallekere (co-founder of Bounce), Alvin Tse (of Xiaomi) and Kunal Khattar (managing partner at AdvantEdge)


💪🏼 Responsibilities

  • As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and build server-side components that run seamlessly on Jar, design and implement infrastructure, and more.
  • You will partner with Fullstack engineers to build high-performance REST & WebSocket APIs to power our frontend experiences.
  • Perform data analysis and troubleshoot technical issues with platforms, performance, data discrepancies, production environment.
  • As an early engineer, work with the team to create and foster a culture of raising the bar with each new hire.

🎓 Qualifications

  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in writing secure, efficient, high-quality code and have a good understanding of Java & Python.
  • Experience with frameworks and technologies like Spring Boot, MongoDB, Postgres, Elasticsearch etc.
  • Experience with Implementation of highly available and resilient services in a micro-service architecture.
  • Familiarity with Big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka.
  • Demonstrated interest in open and community-driven platforms.

✨ Good to have

  • Experience with building fintech products
  • Experience building and scaling applications on public cloud infrastructure (Docker, AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.)
  • Experience in the development of large, distributed software systems
  • Experience of working in a start-up

💥 You’ll be in a rewarding company

  • Work with cutting-edge technology and unchartered territory.
  • Competitive salary and compelling stock options offerings.
  • An international team of highly skilled and motivated colleagues, to help You succeed and push boundaries.
  • Flexible working hours, training resources, and a company culture that promotes open discussions, jokes, learning, and lots of fun along the way.
  • Opportunity to have a major impact on the future of the company.

Perks and Benefits at Jar

  • Medical insurance
  • Offsites - target based
  • International trips
  • Workshops for employees
  • Events to stay updated on industry
  • Esops after a probation of 3 months on case by case basis

Interview Process

RoundTypeDescription
1intro round15-30 min intro call
2Coding roundby tech head - share screen & solve the challenge - 1 hr
3discussion roundcomplete the assignment
4Coding roundby tech head - 1hr
5Culture fitculture fitment by Leadership
Founders

Misbah Ashraf

Co-Founder

Nischay AG

Co-Founder and CEO

Investors

Arkam Ventures
Tiger Global Management
Also Investor At:
Uber ,
Airbnb ,
Clevertap ,
Cred
Tribe Capital
Also Investor At:
Shiprocket ,
Khatabook ,
BlackBuck