Senior Backend Engineer

About SafeGold

Gold is the most trusted asset across the entire world and one of the largest asset classes in India. The total traded value of gold in India exceeds $300 billion annually – nearly all of it in an unorganised, offline manner. We, at SafeGold, are building the digital infrastructure to organise the gold market using technology. SafeGold is India’s largest digital gold platform with 50 million customers and 100+ distribution partners across India, Thailand and UAE. The focus has always been on revenues and profitability growth which has been widely recognised. 

#9 in 2024 ET Growth Champions (India) 

#21 in 2023 FT High Growth Companies (Asia) 

With revenues of more than Rs. 6000 crs in the year ending March-24, we have been part of the Financial Times rankings of the fastest growing startups in the Asia-Pacific region since 2021 till date. SafeGold is backed by the World Gold Council and leading venture capital funds, Beenext and Pravega.  

The Role

We’re a small team with insanely large ambitions. We are looking for a Software Engineer who will help shape Safe Gold’s product and marketing strategies by processing, analyzing and interpreting data sets. You will work closely with the tech, product and business teams for designing and developing a scalable application architecture, based on business requirements. The ideal candidate will have proficiency in PHP and Relational as well as NoSql Databases (MySQL,MongoDB). You will have strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction to thrive in our work environment. 

What You Will Do (Responsibilities)

1. Implement a robust set of services and APIs to power the web application. 
2. Build reusable code and libraries for future use. 
3. Optimize the application for maximum speed and scalability. 
4. Implement security and data protection as per industry standards. 
5. Monitor the front-end and back-end aspects of the web application  
6. Coordinate with the product team to understand the requirements and formulate a detailed technical documentation.  
7. Work with the team to ensure architecture and technical approaches are aligned to the broader engineering goals .
8. Assist and mentor junior developers .

Required Skills & Experience

1. 4-6 years of experience in software development, at least 2 years of experience in a product based startup is preferable 
2. Strong understanding of MVC Architecture, data structures and algorithms.
3. At least 2 years of working experience in PHP is a must have and proficiency in Laravel Framework will be a plus 
4. Proficient knowledge of both Relational as well as NoSql Databases (MySQL,Postgres,MongoDB) is a must have.
5. At  least 2-3 years of working experience on Python and Django/Flask Framework.
6. Strong understanding of fundamental design principles to build a scalable application. 
7. Experience with implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests. 
8. Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git). 
9. At least 2 years of experience working on AWS cloud platform, using tools like EC2,RDS,Lambda, SQS, Elasticache, Lambda Functions, API Gateway. 
10. Solid working knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKS) and orchestration among the clusters.
11. Experience working on high traffic applications, and having technical knowledge of designing architectures that can sustain the same.

Our Hiring Process

• Introductory Round to understand a bit more about your experience 
• Technical round
• Culture fit round