Staff Engineer (Backend)

We are looking for a Staff Engineer (Backend) to join our technology team. A Staff Engineer at slice is an innovative quality focused product minded engineering leader who cares deeply about building reliable systems at scale. You think in systems you understand technical context and you use your experience to shape strong engineering outcomes across teams. Youll be involved in most major technical initiatives influence engineering culture and help move the organization in the right direction.

You will work closely with Design Product Data Science and Analytics teams to design and develop backend microservices that power critical user and payment experiences across slice.

• Lead engineering and technology best practices across quality performance design and operations at an organizational level.

• Architect and deliver features or entire components with high ownership whether youre building scalable loan origination workflows across lead conversion KYC underwriting and approvals in LOS or strengthening core banking capabilities across loans liabilities term deposits and branch operations in Branch Banking.

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to ship end to end features across LOS and Branch Banking ensuring reliable loan processing secure employee workflows maker-checker controls transaction processing and seamless integration with core banking and downstream services.

• Drive technical innovation and push the boundaries of how we design and scale large distributed systems across identity onboarding or payments domains.

• Prioritize effectively and switch contexts across domains as requirements evolve.

• Estimate project efforts accurately identify risks early propose solutions and consistently meet delivery timelines.

• Lead design functional and code review cycles and ensure timely closure of all outstanding issues.

• Mentor and coach engineers enabling them to grow while shaping the technical direction of whichever pod you anchor.

• Take a systems level view to understand how changes in onboarding identity payments or compliance ripple across the product.

• Improve hiring processes and help bring top tier engineers into the organization.

• Represent your team and slice in internal and external engineering forums.
  

• 8 years of strong design and development experience building large scale distributed systems and internet products.

• Deep expertise in modern technology stacks and experience across multiple languages or backend ecosystems.

• Ability to write maintainable scalable and unit testable code.

• Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams or project groups.

• Strong object oriented skills knowledge of design patterns and the ability to design intuitive modules and class level interfaces.

• Deep understanding of data driven web application design and development.

• Strong organisation communication interpersonal and leadership skills.

• Proven performer who thrives in high energy fast paced product focused environments.

• Self starter who can operate with minimal guidance in a fluid environment.

• Ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements scopes and priorities.

• Contributions to open source or personal projects on GitHub are a strong plus.

• Prior experience in a fast paced product company.

Life so good youd think were kidding:

• Competitive salaries. Period.

• An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependents. Well love you and take care of you our promise.

• Flexible working hours. Just dont call us at 3AM we like our sleep schedule.

• Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life.

• A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here.

• Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously not kidding.

• Good food games and a cool office to make you feel like home. An environment so good youll forget the term colleagues cant be your friends.

We believe in equality. Period.

At slice we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We never discriminate on the basis of race sex religion colour national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation age marital status veteran status medical condition disability or any other class orcharacteristic protected by the applicable law.

We consider all qualified job-seekers with criminal histories in a manner consistent with theapplicable law. Additionally we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations toqualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities in order to participate in the jobapplication or interview process perform essential job functions and receive other benefits andprivileges of employment.

Come join our crew!

slice

A new bank for a new India

slices purpose is to make the world better at using money and time with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. Weve all felt how slow confusing and complicated banking can be. So were reimagining it. Were building every product from scratch to be fast transparent and feel good because we believe that the best products transcend demographics like how great music touches most of us.

Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account slice UPI credit card slice UPI and slice business are designed to be simple rewarding and completely in your control. At slice youll get to build things youd use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.

Were backed by some of the worlds leading investors including Tiger Global Insight Partners Advent International Blume Ventures and Gunosy Capital.