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🇮🇳 India – Remote

💵 ₹3M - ₹7M / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Weekday (YC W21)

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

💼 Consulting

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

Consulting • HR Tech • SaaS

Weekday is a modern recruitment platform that combines AI technologies with a vast database of potential candidates, aiming to streamline the hiring process for companies in India. They offer various services, including a proactive outreach approach that helps employers connect with top talent, as well as tools for candidates to easily apply for jobs. Weekday's emphasis on candidate engagement through multiple channels, including email, WhatsApp, and phone calls, sets it apart in the competitive landscape of recruitment agencies.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems for fintech and financial operations • Build services supporting business accounts, payments, cards, FX, and multi-currency transactions • Develop robust APIs and integrations with banking, payment, card, and financial infrastructure providers • Implement transaction workflows covering authorization, processing, settlement, failure handling, and reconciliation • Design systems for idempotency, retries, webhooks, transaction state management, and failure recovery • Build and maintain financial ledgers, balances, transaction records, and reconciliation processes • Support multi-currency financial operations, including currency conversion and cross-border transaction workflows • Design accurate, consistent, and auditable financial data models and database structures • Implement secure access controls, authentication, authorization, and protection of sensitive financial data • Build monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational tooling for critical financial workflows • Integrate third-party financial APIs while handling provider-specific behaviours, failures, rate limits, and inconsistencies • Optimize backend services and databases for performance, scalability, reliability, and availability • Write clean, testable, maintainable, production-ready code • Develop unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for critical financial workflows • Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement sustainable fixes • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Operations, Compliance, and external partners to deliver features end-to-end • Contribute to architecture decisions, technical documentation, engineering standards, and platform strategy • Identify opportunities to automate operational processes and improve system reliability • Own technical deliverables from initial design through deployment and production support

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong backend development expertise • Experience building fintech, payments, banking, financial infrastructure, or other transaction-heavy systems • Strong understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, APIs, databases, queues, and production infrastructure • Hands-on experience integrating external payment, banking, card, FX, or financial service providers • Strong understanding of financial transaction concepts such as ledgers, reconciliation, balances, settlements, transaction states, and auditability • Practical experience implementing idempotency, retries, webhooks, failure recovery, and transaction consistency • Strong programming skills in a modern backend language such as TypeScript/Node.js, Java, Python, Go, or similar • Strong experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and caching technologies such as Redis • Experience working with cloud platforms, APIs, queues, containers, and modern deployment practices • Strong understanding of application security, data protection, access control, and secure API design • Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, Git, monitoring, logging, and production operations • Strong problem-solving and debugging skills with a focus on reliability and data integrity • Ability to work independently and take ownership in a fast-moving, product-focused environment • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders • Comfortable working with ambiguity and making practical architectural and engineering decisions • Experience working on international, multi-currency, or cross-border financial products will be an advantage