Technical Lead - Fintech - Backend

Engineering Team @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.
Up for the challenge? Get in touch 👇

What you’ll be doing

We are much more than our job descriptions, but here is where you will begin:

• Collaborate with stakeholders, including product owners, project managers, and scrum masters, to define and clarify project requirements.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and ensure all stakeholders have a clear understanding of the project scope and objectives.
• Facilitate effective communication and coordination among cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and successful project delivery.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and efficient software solutions that meet business needs.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code while adhering to best practices and coding standards.
• Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members to ensure code quality and consistency.
• Work closely with the DevOps team to establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines for seamless product building, deployment, and testing across all release cycles from development to production.
• Enhance and apply a strong understanding of modern security principles and practices to the development and deployment of applications.
• Implement security measures such as authentication, authorization, data encryption, and vulnerability assessments to protect applications from security threats.

What you’ll need

Like us, you’ll be deeply committed to delivering impactful outcomes for customers.

• 7+ years of demonstrated ability to develop resilient, high-performance, and scalable code tailored to application usage demands.
• Ability to lead by example with hands-on development while managing project timelines and deliverables. Experience in agile methodologies and practices, including sprint planning and execution, to drive team performance and project success.
• Experience building RESTful web services using NodeJS. E
• Experience writing batch/cron jobs using Python and Shell scripting.
• 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.
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

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!