Lead Backend Engineer at GroMo (W21)
₹2.5M - ₹3.4M INR  •  0.05%
App for independent agents to sell financial products in India
Gurugram, India
Full-time
3+ years
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 overall funding .
  • We have backing from several large international funds and notable angel investors such as SIG, Y Combinator, Beyond Next Ventures, Das Capital, 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, Unicommerce, Lambda Test, and many more...

At GroMo , we deeply understand how financial products such as Demat Account, Saving Account, Loans, Insurance, etc. are sold and we want to empower Millions of agents and financial advisors to sell financial products with the power of technology. Our ability to understand what customers want, build fast and iterate faster makes us stand far apart from our competitors.

It all starts with the right team — a team that deeply cares about values, customers, and each other.

About the role
Skills: MongoDB, Node.js, SQL, DynamoDB, Docker, Jenkins, Microservices, Serverless, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

As part of our Technology team, you will scale and optimize GroMo's technology 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.

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: 3-6 years of experience in backend technologies in a consumer-facing product company. (2-5 years for a Sr. Backend Engr or Tech Lead)

  • Technology:

    • Backend Technology: Nodejs, Redis/ AWS/Docker, Microservices Architecture, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, etc.
    • Have worked on integration with REST APIs, SQL, and NoSQL data storage solutions. Integration of user-facing elements with server-side logic.
  • Hands Dirty- Open to getting his/her hands dirty

  • Strategic Mindset: You take a long-term vision for technology and how it will impact key business priorities.

  • Management: You are comfortable with building and leading cross-functional teams comprising of engineers, designers, and data scientists.

  • Leadership: You would be leading one of the most important functions within our organization. You are expected to skill, motivate and manage a team of ambitious and energetic youngsters who are very passionate about providing the best services to our partners.

  • Growth mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and see effort as the path to mastery. Looking forward to working on new and challenging problem statements.

  • Ownership: You take initiative to find solutions and focus on what must be done to create success.

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 $11M+ 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...

At GroMo , we deeply understand how financial products such as Credit Card, Insurance, Demat Account, Saving Account, Loans, etc. are sold and we want to empower Millions of agents and financial advisors with the power of technology. Our ability to understand what customers want, build fast and iterate faster makes us stand far apart from our competitors.

It all starts with the right team — a team that deeply cares about values, customers, and each other.

CREATE AN IMPACT 🚀

We're not solving a small problem, and we're not addressing a small market. We're going after a few of the largest markets in the country- Insurance, Demat/Saving accounts, Loans, Credit cards, and Investments.

At GroMo, you will have a massive impact by building innovative products that this market has never seen before.

Technology

Stack- Node JS, Python, Java, AWS, Mongo, SQL, React Native, Kotlin. Using a Microservices architecture.

  • Looking for folks who are open to the challenge of creating an Edtech platform for agents
  • ML to suggest best products basis consumer profile
  • Microservices architecture to build a seamless product working with multiple 3rd party APIs, Insurance companies, and other service providers
  • Innovative tools to help improve the productivity of agents (Algorithm to identify potential customers, leverage data to suggest cross-selling options).
Interview Process

4 rounds of interview 3 technical, 1 management/cultural rounds.

Technical to be around node.js, microservices, databases(no SQL and SQL), LLD, team management, stakeholder management, sprint planning, and projects worked on by you in your past organization. Cultural rounds to be around what you know about the company and your research so far on why you want to come to GroMo and how you aim to contribute towards GroMo's growth.

We're not solving a small problem, and we're not addressing a small market. We're going after a few of the largest markets in the country- Insurance, Demat/Saving accounts, Loans(and Credit cards), and Investments.

At GroMo, you will have a massive impact by building innovative products that this market has never seen before.

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