Backend Engineer

Company Vision

StockGro is India’s leading stock market education platform with a community of over 2.5 crore market enthusiasts. StockGro equips users with trading and investing knowledge to succeed in the stock market. Whether user is a beginner or a seasoned trader, he can learn strategies from top investment managers, practice with platform currency, and study portfolios of experts & peers. By combining experiential learning with guidance from SEBl-registered experts, StockGro has become the go-to platform for trading & investing education

.About StockGro

Founded in January 2020 by former venture capitalist Ajay Lakhotia, we’re well-funded. We are backed by some of the respected investors – General Catalyst, BITKRAFT, Roots Ventures, and the likes of Kunal Shah, Vivekananda Hallekere, Rahul Garg as Angels. We have some brilliant minds with us, working on a mission to make 400 million Indian millennials investment-ready, with Senior Executives from Sequoia, Swiggy, Glance, Airtel, Uber, and institutions like ISB, NITs, and IIMs.

The opportunity :

We are looking for a backend engineer and developer who can:

• Work closely with product, design and business teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver series of ultra fast experiments
• Architect and implement backend services with high reliability and scalability
• Complete ownership of design/architect/develop/deploy phases while collaborating with technical and nontechnical stakeholders on all elements of the development process.
• Setup best practices for development and advocate their adoption
• Write quality documentation and handle conflicts well to build consensus
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies and frameworks to maximize development efficiency
• Mentor young minds around you and foster team spirit

Requirements :

• 3+ years of strong programming expertise in Golang and databases like PostgreSQL / MySQL / MongoDB
• Build highly scalable REST APIs that align with StockGro’s needs
• Strong knowledge of databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB
• You have experience building scalable customer-facing applications that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Experience in designing and developing service-oriented architecture
• Experience with cache-store / message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ / Kafka
• Having an understanding of GCP, Kubernetes, Docker will be beneficial
• Interest in learning new languages/frameworks as needed
• Worked in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment

What are we looking for?

• Someone who will be a quick learner and be able to work independently.
• He/she should be able to operate in a very fast paced environment where time to ship product is super critical.