About Oolka

Founded by Utkrishta Kumar (UK) and Anuj Dayal in Dec 2023, we are on a mission to solve loan management for all Indians. We believe access to good financial products should not just remain limited to those in the higher income group. We aim to demonstrate this by unlocking the best of financial products for those who  work through improving and maintaining  good credit scores. 

We are seeking an experienced backend engineer to architect and implement developer-friendly APIs. The role demands comprehensive understanding of third-party API services to develop a reliable and scalable infrastructure. The candidate will lead the design and development of these applications, collaborating closely with teams across various product infrastructure layers. Success in this position requires a highly collaborative mindset and a dedication to excellence.

Requirements

• 4+ years of cumulative experience in working as fullstack engineer
• Expertise in  using Python: Django + FastAPI 
• Exposure working with Node.js, React, React Native 
• Skilled in deploying serverless applications and managing relational database (PostgreSQL)
• Strong  implementation skills with AWS suite (EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, VPC, Cognito, Cloudwatch)  
• Experience in building, testing and deploying container applications using Docker
• Working knowledge of API development for mobile/ web use
• Contributions to open-source will be a plus
• Excellent ability to prioritise & communicate in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Build, own & maintain backend data infrastructure
• Design and implement database and storage solutions that fit the need for both data transaction & reporting
• Build highly scalable and robust backend architecture ground up
• Test, debug and maintain the application software throughout the product lifecycle

Relevance of companies/ setup worked with 

1. Experience in developing Fintech/ consumer-tech products
2. Experience of working on revamping the existing scratchy product to achieve PMF
3. Must be good communicators as everyone here talks to end users

You should consider only if you have the hunger to work in a hard working team:

• Create a product that will give our customers the confidence to be their most trusted financial friend for improving & consistently maintaining a high credit score. We have an opportunity to create the most useful financial product for millions of Indians and reliable as breathing. You can help us realise this goal.
• Work with some of the smartest in the startup ecosystem: We are a team of smart and hard working people from very successful backgrounds. If you ever wanted to work with a lean but highly dense team of talented people, then you get to be part of it in the early days.
• Tackle our most interesting and impactful problems: Our team is still small, and people wear many hats. You'd jump between product, internal tools, processes and what not — participating in every phase from inception to implementation. Absolutely no boredom.
• Join us at a magical time: The early stage of the business gives us a huge fertile land to work with. You'd join at the perfect time to shape what we build and how we grow. More over the call.
• Complete ownership of work: You'll build new product features from start to finish, through conception, research, design, maintenance, and polish. Think of features to improve the experience, such as doing more with fewer data. You'll build improvements to performance, reliability, and product polish
• Solving your own problems: You'll build and improve processes and internal tools with simplicity and productivity in mind — such as a tool to sync valuable user feedback with our internal database.

If you join us, you’ll be an early team member in helping shape:

• Our future company culture
• Our engineering practices
• People that we hire
• The direction & focus of our products

This might be for you if...

• You've built and maintained quality user interfaces that have reached a large audiences, ideally while the product is experiencing rapid growth
• You can readily learn most technologies as you go. Technologies are about tools and tradeoffs, not an ideology here
• You care about the business impact of anything you build. You understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line
• You have a strong opinion for design and like to get your hands dirty in giving it a shape that makes you happy.