Backend Engineer

Job Description

Responsibilities: - Performance: Maintain less than 200ms P95 latency for all user-critical operations at 10x current scale. - Incident Reduction: Implement monitoring and automation that reduces production incidents by 80%. - Team Enablement: Create platform abstractions that let product teams ship features 3x faster. Requirements: - 2+ years building and scaling distributed systems handling > 5K concurrent requests in production. - Hands-on experience with microservices decomposition from monolithic architectures under live traffic. - Production experience with service mesh technologies and container orchestration at scale. - Deep understanding of database sharding, replication, and distributed transaction management. - Hands-on experience with CDN optimisation and edge computing for global/multi-region deployments. - Proven ability to optimise systems, achieving less than 100ms P99 latency for critical user-facing operations. - Tech Stack: FastAPI, Redis, PostgreSQL, AWS, Python 3.11+. Company Summary Oolka serves as a co-branded financial product partner, collaborating with banks, financial institutions, and other entities. Oolka's core mission is to simplify credit management, ensuring transparency and ease of use for consumers. Whether it's a new to credit or aiming to strengthen the financial profile, navigating personal finance can often be complex. Oolka's platform is designed to empower individuals to maintain control over their finances, providing guidance and solutions to traverse the intricacies of credit management smartly. With Oolka, someone can understand, manage, and enhance the credit profile effectively. From personalized insights to actionable tips, Oolka empowers to make informed decisions, navigate credit challenges, and achieve financial goals with confidence.

Required Skills

['Python', 'FastAPI', 'PostgreSQL', 'LLMs', 'Redis', 'AWS', 'Microservices']

Additional Information

Source recruiter: Pardeep Singh Source recruiter designation: Founder Company tagline: Democratizing financial inclusion for all Indians Employee count: 10 Company founded: 2023 Website: https://www.oolka.in/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oolka/about/ Instahyre score: NA Strong match: NA Accept outstation: true Company tagline: Democratizing financial inclusion for all Indians Logo: https://media.instahyre.com/images/profile/base/employer/46939/2576ee2979/oolka_logo.webp