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TL;DR: Location agnostic full-time backend engineer position. Must have experience building scalable and secure systems.
🏦 About Fold
At Fold, we are rebuilding personal finance and mobile banking from the ground up for India’s internet native citizens.
🏋️ Working with us
On joining Fold, you’ll be working on all the things that are required for shipping a great experience to our end users - whether it be creating systems, microservices, APIs from scratch, or integrating third-party services among others.
We follow the agile process of building and shipping, you’ll be working closely with the Product, Frontend, and Design team; giving feedback, iterating and refining the feature until it is shipped to production.
💯 You’d fit in if:
- We don’t care about your credentials and degrees but having a solid 7+ experience in
- Building and designing system architecture.
- Building APIs and managing databases.
- Hosting and managing services at scale on Cloud, preferably AWS.
- Ensuring that whatever you build and deploy, from start to finish, is top-notch quality.
- You enjoy building products from scratch. Joining in at an early stage involves a lot more than just coding an app. You'll be working in often fast-paced environments, and involved in product and business decisions as well.
- You can work in teams. You need to be able to collaborate and work across teams. Having some sort of experience mentoring and leading the engineering team is a plus.
- You can work within business constraints. You understand how companies work and make the correct tradeoffs between time, speed, and features whenever required.
- You love to give back to the community through blogging, mentoring, and contributing to open source. Check out some of our engineering posts.
- You understand the fintech industry. Experience working and designing backend systems around fintech products is a big plus.
🛠 What you'll be working on
- Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems.
- Write well-designed, testable, performant, and efficient code.
- Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
- Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility.
- You'll create experiences that shape an iconic product. We believe in hiring smart people that pride themselves in good values, their work ethics, and holding great responsibility.
⚙️ Our technology stack
We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies -
- Amazon web services for all our infrastructure.
- Golang for all our backend services and APIs.
- Redis, Postgres, and Qdrant for storage.
- AWS managed elasticsearch service for search.
- Terraform for managing infrastructure resources.
🌱 Join us
- Full-time
- We'll help set up your workspace
- Competitive salary
- Generous stock options (for full-time employees)
🎁 Perks and benefits
- Generous leave policy: Unlimited paid leave.
- Flexible working hours: It doesn't matter if you're a morning person or a night owl, work when you want. We all work asynchronously. Meetings are the exception, not the rule.
- Get your perfect setup: Mac/Windows/Linux, mechanical keyboard or anything that you need to do the best work of your life. We'll help set up your workspace.
- We'll take care of you: Annual team retreats, all meals and accommodation if you choose to work at Bangalore HQ. Wellness allowance to take care of your physical and mental health (gym memberships, meditation apps, and anything you need).
- Health insurance & benefits: Comprehensive health insurance coverage of ₹17.5L for full-time employees, includes free health check-ups, unlimited doctor consultations, dental care, and generous personal accident insurance.
- Make a big difference: Take, own, and implement decisions to build Fold from scratch. We are not rushing to market but focusing on a quality product and the attention to little details.
⚙️ Our recruitment process
- Introduction: Get on an introductory call with us. We'll talk about your interests, your past experience, our vision of the future, and how you can contribute and help us achieve it.
- Take-home exercise: We'll send over an application development challenge, which you'll have to complete and send back in 48 hours.
- Pair programming: If we like your submission, we'll invite you to an interview with one of our engineers (strictly no whiteboarding), with whom you'll be pair-programming on a real-world problem.
We move very fast, and we'll be mindful of your time. All of this will be done within a week, and if all goes well you'll receive a final offer within 24 hours of the pair-programming round.
✍️ Write to us
We are committed to assembling an unrivalled team of builders, artists, technologists, and adventurers who aim to create a new way to explore the world. As an early crew member, you'll have an enormous impact on both our product and company culture.
If you think you'd like to join us, write to us at join@fold.money, with links to your GitHub profile, Devfolio, personal portfolio, LinkedIn, or anything else you think might be relevant. To truly stand out, we recommend you answer at least one of these questions:
- What are the best systems that you've made without anybody asking?
- What's your favourite app? How would you make it better?
- What was the first thing you built? When and why did you make it?
- What are some of the interesting engineering problems you have solved?
- What big problem is nobody solving?
- List three problems in 21st-century personal finance, and tell us how you would solve them.