Backend Engineer

Org Description

Kotak Cherry is an all-in-one investment platform from the house of Kotak, designed for users to manage their financial investments seamlessly. Backed by the trusted house of Kotak, Cherry provides an intuitive platform and investment ecosystem for investors. The platform offers features like fund comparison, portfolio health checks, and account activation in just a few clicks, catering to both beginners and experienced investors.

Cherry focuses on three major pillars:

• Curation: Cherry offers a variety of investment options to meet individual financial goals and needs. Investors can choose from the list of Mutual Fund Baskets or can just buy curated fund baskets.
• Domain expertise: Cherry simplifies complex financial jargon and provides easy-to-understand explanations. The app offers rich content, calculators, and tools to help users understand and navigate the world of investing.
• Holistic: Cherry is a one-stop shop for investing in various assets. Whether it's mutual funds, stocks or bonds users can access everything they need in one place.

Role Description

This is a full-time remote role for a Backend Engineer. At present we are hiring for backend engieers(SDE1 & SDE2). As a Backend Engineer you will be responsible for developing and implementing efficient server-side application logic, managing and optimizing database operations, and ensuring system integration and performance. The role also involves collaborating with front-end developers to create seamless, well-functioning applications and participating in the entire software development lifecycle to deliver scalable and reliable solutions.

Requirements

• Should have 3 to 7 years of experience in backend development.
• Should be a self-starter and demonstrate a high level of resilience.
• Should be highly goal driven and work well in fast paced environments.
• Should be able to pay strong attention to detail and deliver work that is of a high standard.
• Can work on high performance and scalable application and write very optimised code.
• Can take complete responsibility for the development of module/work they are assigned to.
• Have good problem-solving skills and very clear understanding of basic data structures, algorithms.
• Expert in any one of their favourite programming languages (server-side JS/go preferred)
• Proven experience in one of the major web API development frameworks (ExpressJS, Phoenix, Gin etc)
• Have clear understanding server to server interactions and practices.
• Have a knack for debugging and deep diving into code (incl. libraries written by others)
• CTC range for this role: 25 to 45 LPA depending on fitment(SDE1 or SDE2)

Good to have.

• Experience in TDD/BDD style in agile fashion which means you develop, test, release and get back to development again in sprints.
• Proficient in architectures (client/server, pub/sub etc), trends, and emerging technologies.
• Proficiency in high performing or distributed system design. Previous experience in working on large projects involving several modules and their integration (among themselves and with the server).
• Web API best practices and REST
• Knowledge of multiple languages and programming paradigms
• Open-Source contributions. Having nice GitHub profile is really a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and build very high performing and high throughput web APIs.
• Work with outside data sources and APIs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.

Personality Traits

• Self-motivated and self-disciplined
• Acts like a leader
• Behaves like an owner – Never feels that's not my job.
• Constant Learner
• Growth Mindset
• Optimism – don’t see roadblocks, see them as a step.
• Relentless Resourcefulness – thinks there is always a solution.

You can also rend your resume to kashish.tambe@kotak.com