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 :

4+ 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.