Backend Engineer

About Us

Setu is working to reimagine financial products for the next billion users.

How do you put a dent in India’s economy when most of her population cannot afford insurance, credit, investments, etc. through the formal channels that you and I take for granted? Our auto-wallas cannot use Cred, our security guards cannot use Zerodha. There are several examples—you get the idea.

How can we enable them to get on such platforms?

By reducing the cost of distribution. If we break down financial products such as loans, insurance and investments into their fundamental building blocks, and offer them as APIs to businesses, they then package these APIs into highly custom apps, tailor-made for their specific customers, instead of a generic one-size-for-all approach that is the norm today.

This also enables them to go live with a fintech product or service in a matter of days, not months.

We believe that fintech will be a core part of every company’s offering. And at Setu, we’re building the fintech infrastructure that will accelerate this.

More About Setu

Setu is an acquired entity of Pine Labs, one of the fastest growing fintech companies in India and rapidly expanding its footprint in Asia, UAE, and the US. At Pine Labs, we’re looking for those who share our core belief—‘Every Day is Game Day’. We bring our best selves to work each day to realise our mission of enriching the world through the power of digital commerce and financial services. Know more about Pine Labs here!



Job Description

Importance of the role

Role

This is a mission-critical role. We are a small, diverse, agile, and high-performance engineering team. We’re looking for versatile developers who will:

• Be our partners’ first port of call within Setu.
• Build new tools and processes around the development to increase efficiency.
• Have extensive experience in building API products.
• Improve through peer learning and transmit them to the Setu dev ecosystem.
• Take ownership and get the job done. We need role-shapers, not role-takers.
  
  

Requirements

What will you do at Setu?

The Backend Engineer role involves working across Setu's development stack, including various backend systems as well as quick prototyping of proof-of-concept features and projects.

• Architecting: Figuring out all levels of designing and structuring systems, deciding on optimal levels of abstraction and future-proofing, patterns of orchestration of components, and finally planning its execution.
• Implementation: Should be able to structure and write code like prose for others to read, design and adhere to common principles and patterns that make everyone better at their jobs. Should have the ability to contribute according to timelines and type of projects - from working POCs to stable production code and the ability to work with a large breadth of knowledge.
• Orchestration and integration: Interact with the larger engineering team for integrating your work into the ecosystem, help others in building over the base that you provide, help in orchestrating your work into CI/CD, testing, QA and automation pipelines.
• Mentorship: We all love to learn and grow as engineers and human beings and we believe in synchronous growth as a team fueled by each and every individual's personal abilities, specializations, and interests. To enable this you'll be required to mentor others by sharing your expertise in various forms and be subject to be mentored by others and thus maintain a continuous learning culture.
• Ownership: End-to-end ownership of services and specialized components required for various projects—starting from the prototypal stage to production-hardened. These may include anything from document parsing to solving problems using deep learning.
• Documentation: Create well-crafted technical content including articles, samples, whitepapers, and training.
  
  

Tech stack

Backend: Python3, Flask, OpenAPI

Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform

We believe in being technology-agnostic, so we don't expect you to have extensive experience with our current tech stack. If you have a strong foundation in software development and are excited to work with a diverse range of tools and platforms, we encourage you to apply regardless of your prior experience with specific languages or technologies.

Benefits

Why Setu?

We will spare no efforts to ensure that Setu empowers you to do the most important and impactful work of your career—

• Opportunity to work closely with the founding team who built and scaled public infrastructure such as UPI, GST, Aadhaar, etc.
• We care deeply about your growth. So we work hard to provide you with—
• Exposure to other verticals such as product, business, legal etc.
• A fully stocked library and unlimited book budget.
• Tickets to conferences and industry events.
• Fortnightly learning sessions where we invite both team members and external experts to teach you something new.
• Learning and development allowance that gives access to subscriptions, courses, certifications, music classes, and much more. Grow, learn, and improve with Setu!
• Kick-ass benefits including comprehensive health insurance for you and your family, personal accident and term life insurance, access to mental health counsellors, extraordinary coffee, and a beautiful office with lots of solid wood and natural light.
• We work hard to make sure our team is diverse and varied. We interview and hire purely on merit, skill, and competence—everything else is irrelevant.
  

Join us if you want to be part of a company that’s building infrastructure that will directly impact financial inclusion and improve millions of lives. No cashbacks, no growth-hacks, no bullshit. Just an audacious mission, and an obsession with craftsmanship in code.