Technical Lead

About CheQ
CheQ is a pre-product startup, the newest & noisiest on the block! We aim to help customers
understand, manage and leverage credit in ways that augment their lifestyle choices. And while
doing that, make the experience fun and rewarding.
Founded by Aditya Soni, CheQ has raised $10 Mn in seed funding led by marquee investors like
Venture Highway, 3one4 Capital, Multiply Ventures, Marshot Ventures and Veda VC. We are also
backed by angel investors like Naveen Kukreja (CEO, PaisaBazar), Shailaz Nag (Founder & CEO,
Dotpe) among others.
Read more about CheQ: The Economic Times | Inc42 | YourStory

Engineering @CheQ
Engineers at CheQ are true builders. They bring in a myriad of ideas, and create the infrastructure,
systems and products that drive our services. Our engineers build Zero to One products,
microservices, DBs and everything else (from farm to table).
With their magic they take a product, feature or experience from ideation to production, always
keeping the customers and their interests in mind. This includes understanding consumer &
business needs, critiquing & challenging product and design counterparts and owning the
execution & delivery of the scope.

What you’ll be doing
We are much more than our job descriptions, but here is where you will begin:
● Work with stakeholders (product owners, project managers and scrum masters) to define
and clarify requirements.
● Hands-on development with both front-end, middle-tier and back-end programming.
● Leverage the DevOps team to ensure products can be built, deployed and tested across all
of the release cycles from dev to production.
● Further your strong grasp of modern security principles and apply them to applications.

What you’ll need
Like us, you’ll be deeply committed to delivering impactful outcomes for customers.
● Proven ability to develop resilient code that performs and scales based on application
usage.
● 6+ years of experience building RESTful web services using NodeJS.
● 6+ years of experience writing batch/cron jobs using Python and Shell scripting.
● 6+ years of experience in web application development using JavaScript and JavaScript
libraries.
● Have a basic understanding of Typescript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JSON and REST based
applications.
● Experience/Familiarity with RDBMS and NoSQL Database technologies like MySQL,
MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch and other similar databases.
● Understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
● Understanding of building applications deployed on the cloud using Google cloud platform
or Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker and kubernetes.
● Experienced in JS-based build /Package tools like Grunt, Gulp, Bower, Webpack and NPM.

Why should you join CheQ
You define your work
We acknowledge that your work does not define you. It’s you who will define your work here. We
do not encourage trade-offs between work and life.
Propelled by courage & care
We dare each other with the art of possible and then watch each other’s back delivering the
solution with speed, agility, heart and rigor.
Learn with the best
With a strong leadership team from diverse backgrounds, you can expect to get the best of many
worlds
And much more!
● Industry competitive compensation
● ESOPs of a boat that you must onboard before it becomes a ship
● Work on real problems of India that will create Impact at scale
● Work with all the jazz and fancy that new and innovative technologies bring

What you will not get
We come from a place of honesty. So let’s set our expectations right!
Predictability of work
You will be a spider in the web; we will throw everything at you!
Climbing the slow ladder of Career Growth
We all love to hop, skip & grow!
Bureaucracy and slow decision making
What was that again??
Meetings, meetings & only meetings
We believe in agility, empowerment and get the work done!