Lead Software Engineer - Backend

About Us

Xalts is a financial technology firm providing enterprise grade, real time connectivity between financial services & businesses by leveraging modern technology stack including APIs, Blockchains & Orchestration layers to digitize complex workflows and financial processes. 

Leading global banks, Fortune 500 corporations and some of the most innovative technology companies use our products to simplify financial connectivity & reimagine modern financial products. We are backed by Accel and Citi Ventures and have strategic relationships with leading consulting and technology firms such as PwC, Avalanche, Tezos etc.  

Xalts has been selected to participate in multiple government backed programs such as Digital Assets Lab in Qatar Financial Centre, Cyberport Incubation Program in Hong Kong etc.

Location: Bengaluru, India (In-Office Role)

Responsibilities:

• Lead architectural discussions, drive high-level and low-level designs, provide mentorship to junior team members

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services with scalability, reliability, and performance in mind

• Collaborate closely with product managers, and other stakeholders to define and implement new features with quality

• Create timelines and task breakdown for product requirements provided by product and business teams.

• Write clean maintainable code that is in accordance with xalts development guidelines and exhaustive unit tests for new backend functionality and systems.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Engineering Degree in Computer Science or related field with minimum 5 years of experience in developing Software.

• Proven experience in software development with minimum 5 years of experience in either Javascript/Golang/Java.

• Hands on experience with Distributed Systems, Queues, AWS/Azure/GCP Cloud services.

• Experience with working in Databases like Postgresql/MongoDB/DynamoDB.

• Strong proficiency in Data structures, Algorithms, OOPS, and database management systems.

• Knowledge of Test-driven Development, Refactoring, Clean Code, Clean Architecture, and Design Patterns.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Strong desire to solving complex and interesting real-world problems

Nice to have:

• Prior experience working in large scale distributed systems at high growth startups that have experienced challenges of scaling with the fast evolving needs of the business.

• Prior experience build/operating cloud hosted infrastructure in distributed

environments for services, data platforms and ML pipelines.

• Experience with leading team’s or driving daily engineering scrums.

Working at xalts:

• Be part of something exciting. Rare opportunity to come in early and build the next-generation infrastructure that will power the future of financial services.

• Very competitive compensation in salary & ESOPs.

• Generous pricing & terms for equity options.

• A global work environment with offices in 4 different countries (and adding) with a flat organization structure. 

• Possibility for relocation and international transfers mid-career.

• Build the next generation of financial connectivity with us. 

If you are passionate about technology, have the drive to take on some of the most complex challenges, and believe that you can build a future where every asset is interconnected and interoperable, we invite you to join us in our mission and build xalts along with us.