Senior Backend Engineer

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🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Tala

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2011

💳 Fintech

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

👥 B2C

Fintech • Artificial Intelligence • B2C

Tala is a fintech company that aims to break down financial barriers for individuals across Kenya, Mexico, the Philippines, and India through its innovative money app. The company provides a suite of financial services, including credit, payments, savings, and transfers, to empower their customers. Leveraging advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, Tala offers personalized financial experiences and creates digital financial identities for users who have been underserved by traditional finance institutions. With a focus on real-time money management, Tala's app simplifies access to instant credit and other financial services for millions, enhancing users' economic power and quality of life.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and data integration layers • Author and defend engineering design documents (EDDs) • Design and optimize database schemas and queries • Meet project goals while maintaining quality and paying down technical debt • Serve as the go-to person for technologies in the domain and evaluate industry developments • Hold the engineering bar in code and design reviews • Write clean, maintainable code following coding standards • Contribute to testing infrastructure and increase backend module coverage • Verify AI-assisted changes to the standard of hand-written code • Define alerting, SLIs, and SLOs and advance backend monitoring • Handle uncovered incidents, improve runbooks, lead technical incident response, and write RCAs • Troubleshoot and resolve issues across development and production environments • Own domain roadmap delivery and participate in quarterly and sprint planning • Anticipate blockers and escalate with impact assessments and proposed options • Collaborate with Product and business stakeholders to clarify requirements and define feature success • Deliver domain solutions and own service design and implementation end to end • Maintain accurate tickets and complete documentation • Work across multiple time zones using asynchronous communication • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers • Technically lead and mentor Backend Engineers building or extending complex modules

🎯 Requirements

• Fluency in English, including clear written communication • Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating applications in Java, Kotlin, and/or Scala • Experience with a web framework such as Spring • Track record of leading and delivering multiple domain-significant projects validated in production • Experience with large-scale consumer applications on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure using microservices architecture • Subject-matter expertise in own domain and familiarity with adjacent domains and wider company architecture • Experience designing services and dependencies for security, maintainability, operability, and scale • Experience authoring and defending engineering design documents (EDDs) • Expert knowledge of REST API design and development for mobile and web • Strong relational database experience with MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL • Strong non-relational database experience with Cassandra, Redshift, DynamoDB, or HDFS • Experience defining alert thresholds, SLIs, SLOs, and telemetry • Experience with graceful degradation and monitoring new features • Experience co-owning Acceptance Tests coverage decisions with SDET • Knowledge of ISO-27001, ISO-27701, and OWASP secure coding practices • Ability to remediate vulnerabilities within established SLAs • AI fluency, including defining acceptance criteria, building reusable context assets, prompts, and skills, and verifying AI-generated code • Expert proficiency in Agile development • Ability to prioritize and communicate well in a fast-paced environment • Strong drive for independent learning and work

🏖️ Benefits

• Significant opportunities for career advancement and professional development • Supportive team environment