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Lead Engineer - Backend - Node.js

GroMo

GroMo

Software Engineering
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Posted on Friday, June 30, 2023

About GroMo
Building India's largest financial products distribution company

Bringing a landslide shift in the $300B+ Financial products market in India. GroMo is a Y Combinator (YC21) backed Series-A startup having raised $12M+ in funding.
We have backing from several large international funds and notable angel investors such as SIG, Kunal Shah(CRED, Freecharge), Ramakant Sharma(Livspace), Alok Mittal(Indifi, IAN), Nitin Gupta (Uni, Founder PayU), Utsav Somani (Angel list India, iSEED), Niraj Singh (Spinny), Ashish Sharma, and many more.
Both co-founders, Ankit and Darpan, are from IIT Delhi and have entrepreneurship experience in the tech space itself and have built (and sold) successful companies in the past
Our team comprises dedicated ex-entrepreneurs and mavericks who have a passion to build great things and change lives, with varied experience in companies such as Flipkart, Spinny, Policybazaar, Aviva Life, Snapdeal, Oracle, Housing.com, Unicommerce, Lambda Test, and many more...

We are here to do the best work of our lives, and we hope you are too.
You will scale and optimize GroMo's platform and build innovative solutions to help increase the penetration of Insurance and increase financial literacy with the help of financial advisors. The pace of our growth is incredible. If you want to tackle hard, interesting and UNIQUE problems, and create an impact within an entrepreneurial environment, we are a perfect match

ROLE
-Being a small company we have a culture of creative problem-solving, intellectual design, fast-paced development, and passionate product delivery.
-Build innovative products never built before to transform an age-old industry by empowering micro-entrepreneurs with technology to do wonders
-Develop efficient algorithms using ML to build cross-sell and recommendation algorithms
-Keenness to learn new technologies and apply the knowledge in production systems.
-Strong Analytical and Problem Solving Skills.
-Communicate with people within the team and sometimes third parties.

REQUIREMENTS
If your biggest superpower is a go-getter attitude, the grit to get things done, and you have an eye for details, this is for you.

-Experience: 5-8 years of experience in backend technologies in a product company. We are hiring across various levels in our technology team
-Technology: Strong knowledge of Backend Development i.e., Nodejs/Javascript, Python, Knowledge of Kotlin, SQL and NoSQL databases, Redis/ AWS/Docker a big plus
-Growth mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and see effort as the path to mastery. Looking forward to work on new and challenging problem statements.
-Ownership: You take initiative to find solutions and focus on what must be done to create success.
-Team Spirit: Mentoring and supporting other team members by doing code reviews and applying your experience in process and technical leadership.
-Knowledge: Aware of best software engineering practices for all stages of software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, testing and deployment.

BENEFITS
If you want to work with a bunch of really smart people with varied experience and want to disrupt a legacy industry while having fun in the process and build a really really large business.

-Best minds: Our team comprises folks with experience across Flipkart, BharatPe, Spinny, Policybazaar, Snapdeal, Oracle, Unicommerce, and many more...
-Ownership: If you believe in yourself and need freedom (and budget) to execute your big ideas, you are at the right place
-VC Funded: We have big names backing us and with our recent fundraise in March'21, we are sufficiently capitalized to take our company to the next level
-Health Insurance: Come on, we are ourselves in the Insurance industry, how could we not do this :)

Work hard, Party harder- We live and die by this quote
And not to mention, best in industry compensation and ESOP policy (we mean it)