SDE 3 (Backend)

About us

slice the way you bank

slice’s 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. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re 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, slice UPI ATMs, slice fixed deposits, slice borrow, and UPI-powered bank branch are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d 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.

We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.

About the team

Everything that you see on the internet - developers made it. Even the page that you’ve opened right now and are reading this very line from - a developer. At slice, we’re trying to build a world class product and that takes some crazy, world class engineers. A team so supportive - even if you miss a ‘;’ in your code, they got your back till the code runs successfully.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Backend developer to join our technology team. As a Backend developer, you’ll work closely with our Design, Product, Data Science and Analytics team to develop microservices which focus on the financial needs of millennials in India. If you have excellent programming skills and a passion for developing applications or improving existing ones, we would like to meet you.

What you will do

Design and develop microservices that can work in a large-scale multi-tenant environment.

Explore design implications and work towards an appropriate balance between functionality, performance, and maintainability.

Work with a cross-disciplined team of Design, Product, Data Science, and Analytics teams.

Deploy and maintain the application in a secure AWS environment.

Take ownership from the ideation phase to deployment and maintenance.

Actively participate in the hiring process to bring world-class programmers to the team.

What You will need

6+ years of experience in server-side development.

Strong programming skills.

Hands-on experience in API development and frameworks such as Express, Loopback, Hapi.

Good understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases.

Experience in test-driven development (Unit test and API test).

Understanding of basic cloud computing concepts and experience in using any of the major cloud service providers(AWS / GCP / Azure).

Ability to build and deploy the application in a containerized environment.

Understanding of application logging and monitoring systems like Prometheus or Kibana.

B.E / B.Tech / M.E. / M.Tech / M.S. from a reputed university with a good academic record.

Curiosity to explore cutting-edge technologies and bake them into the products.

Zeal and drive to take end-to-end ownership.

Life at slice

Life so good, you’d think we’re kidding :

Competitive salaries. Period.

An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependents. We’ll love you and take care of you, our promise.

Flexible working hours. Just don’t 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, you’ll forget the term “colleagues can’t be your friends”.