Senior Backend Software Engineer

Founded in 2013 LetsVenture is India's largest platform for early-stage investing and fundraising. LetsVenture is organizing India’s private market by making the process of fundraising easy, efficient and transparent for both start-ups and investors and bringing value-added products to the market. In the last 9 years, over 400 start-ups have raised $400mn across 527+ rounds with a total portfolio value of $3 billion and the platform has 10000+ Angel Investors from 60 countries, and 100 Micro VC Funds. LetsVenture is backed by Accel, Chiratae Ventures, Nandan Nilekani, Ratan Tata, Rishad Premji, Mohandas Pai, Sharad Sharma, Anupam Mittal. LetsVenture has partnered with MeitY Startup Hub to accelerate the growth of the start-up ecosystem in India.

We're looking for an experienced backend engineer who can contribute to our product. Our preferred stack is Rails on the backend. This is an opportunity to have a big impact and get lots of ownership. We're looking for someone who thrives in the very early stages of a company and is self driven.

• Deliver features in an end-to-end manner: technical design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance.
• Provide technical leadership and own specific areas of the LetsVenture platform.
• Work closely with Product Managers to translate product requirements to engineering specifications.
• Lead code review efforts and quality efforts in your area of ownership.
• Participate in product discussions, taking ownership and initiative.
• Work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers.

• At least 5 years’ experience developing web applications and backend services in a professional setting.
• You should have played a lead role in building, shipping, and maintaining a non-trivial production service.
• Strong experience with Rails/Django/Node ecosystem.
• Must have an excellent understanding of how the web works.
• Familiar with modern engineering practices: code reviews, continuous-deployment, automated testing.
• Must be willing to constantly learn new things.
• Passionate about joining a small team and building a company

• A history of working on side/hobby projects and contributing to open source projects is a plus.
• You're familiar with frontend technologies (Javascript / React).
• You've worked at a startup before.

Originally posted on Himalayas