Senior Backend Engineer

Xflow is building cross-border payments infrastructure that provides businesses access to global markets, starting with those in India and subsequently other parts of South & South East Asia. We are enabling users to accept and payout money globally in a simple, reliable, compliant, transparent and financially compelling manner.

Building payments infrastructure is hard, and elegantly solving for cross-border payments infrastructure for businesses even more so. The complexity stems from the different changing regulatory requirements of the many countries that we will operate in, building payment guarantees in existing rails (or for that matter, creating a new payment rail altogether) and capturing value in a way where we are net additive to our users. This complexity excites and motivates us because we know that when we get it right, businesses around the world and their customers will be better off for it.

Finally, and we cannot stress this enough, culture eats everything else for breakfast. We aim to be an engineering driven company that believes finance problems are rooted in code and strongly prefer individuals who share a similar belief.

You will:

• Ideate, define, validate and refine product requirements in collaboration with product, and subsequently come up with engineering solutions for the finalized product requirements

• Design solutions for problem statements with a fair degree of fuzziness with the right abstractions and separation of concerns.

• Design, build, and maintain APIs that users can rely on for decades.

• Develop domain models and implement business logic with suitable class design.

• Identify common reusable components as libraries, utilities and services and promote reuse.

• Define critical system and business metrics and alerts to maintain system uptime and business continuity.

• Solve complex problems in an innovative way and deliver quality solutions while taking ownership and accountability of assigned things.

• Set a standard in sustainable engineering by defining best practices, producing best in class of code, external and internal documentation, and testing.

• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

• Meet with users to gather feedback, and take pride from working on projects that solve acute real world problems

You have:

• B. E or B. Tech in Computer Science or any equivalent degree

• 4+ years of professional software development experience

• Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in Data Structures, algorithms and their space-time complexities

• Highly proficient with at least one language (e.g: Ruby, Python, Java, C++, etc.,)

• Ability to convert design into efficient code fluently

• Own and drive technical initiatives with a small group of engineers

• Strong mentorship experience or built services ground up

• Good exposure to scale and non-functional optimisations

• The skills and inclination to think rigorously about API design and diving deep into the details

• Dealt with solving ambiguous problems and can think laterally when faced with a new problem

• Excellent debugging skills

Bonus Points if you have:

• Experience working in the Fintech / Payments industry