Senior Backend Engineer

₹3M - ₹5M INR • Gurugram, HR, IN Job type Full-time Role Engineering, Backend Experience 3+ years Visa US citizenship/visa not required

About the role

The firm: It’s an amazing time to be joining SalaryBox as we continue to transform attendance and payroll for over 60 million MSME’s in India. We launched the app in Jan 2021, and now have more than 2 million downloads of the app. We support more than 200k businesses and operate at scale. Backed by Y-Combinator, SalaryBox is India’s leading attendance and payroll app. Considered to be the engine of economies around the world, the MSME segment in India alone has ~63 million units, and employs ~100 million people. The sector accounts for 27% of GDP and is crucial to the functioning of the economy. We are on a mission to make work easier for these business owners, managers, and employees so that they can focus on the things they do best. Today, SalaryBox is a fun bunch of analytical and ambitious folks building the first-of-its-kind technologies for the MSME ecosystem. We are here to enhance the employee experience of over 10 million end consumers in the next twelve months. Our mission is big, so we act with urgency in everything we do. We find creative ways to test ideas and learn today so that we focus on the right things tomorrow. And we are just getting started!

• Website: https://www.salarybox.in/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/salaryboxapp

About the Role We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with at least 3 years experience. You will be an integral part of building the back-end architecture and developing core systems.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and develop our core systems from scratch.
• Deploy and maintain the product on AWS.
• Make strategic technical decisions.
• Commit to best practices for testing, logging, and deployments.
• Help build the engineering team & subsequently mentor junior developers.

Requirements:

• 3+ years’ experience as a backend engineer.
• Expert in Python and Django.
• Experience with databases (Postgres, Redis etc.).
• Good understanding of platforms (Docker, AWS).
• Basic understanding of Dev Ops.
• Previous experience architecting and scaling back-end systems.
• Hands-on attitude and ability to drive solutions to completion.

About SalaryBox

At Salarybox, we are building a mobile-first payroll app for millions of small businesses in Asia. The App is live across India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and other SEA countries. We launched in January 2021 and already have 2,00,000+ registered businesses.

Location

Gurugram, HR, IN

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

3+ years

Remote Work Mention

No explicit mention of remote work.

Skills Mentioned Explicitly or Implicitly

• Python (explicit)
• Django (explicit)
• Databases: Postgres, Redis (explicit)
• Platforms: Docker, AWS (explicit)
• DevOps basics (explicit)
• Backend architecture design and scaling (explicit)
• Testing, logging, deployment best practices (implicit in responsibilities)