About Tala Tala is on a mission to unleash the economic power of the Global Majority - the 4 billion people overlooked by existing financial systems With nearly half a billion dollars raised from equity and debt we are serving millions of customers across three continents Tala has been named by the Fortune Impact 20 list CNBC s Disruptor 50 five years in a row CNBC s World s Top Fintech Company Forbes Fintech 50 list for eight years running and Chief s The Recent Era of Leadership Award We are expanding across product offerings countries and crypto and are looking for people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are passionate about our mission By creating a unique platform that enables lending and other financial services around the globe people in emerging markets are able to start and expand small businesses manage day-to-day needs and pursue their financial goals with confidence Currently over nine million people across Kenya the Philippines Mexico and India have used Tala products Due to our global team we have a remote-first approach and also have offices in Santa Monica CA HQ Nairobi Kenya Mexico City Mexico Manila the Philippines and Bangalore India Most Talazens join us because they connect with our mission If you are energized by the impact you can make at Tala we d love to hear from you The Role The Senior Backend Engineer builds and extends Tala s backend architecture to support new country launches new products and features and a fast-growing user base As a technologist and a leader the Senior Backend Engineer pushes the team towards building a highly available scalable reliable fault-tolerant and performant microservices platform The Senior Backend Engineer follows and improves upon Tala s engineering processes and standards while advancing Tala s mission and business objectives What You ll Do Develop test and deploy software solutions using Java Scala or Kotlin Design and contribute to backend systems making key architectural decisions Work with deployment infrastructure and tooling including CI CD pipelines Handle schema evolution and data migrations in production systems Optimize backend systems for performance including profiling caching and JVM tuning Ensure code quality and consistency through best practices and code reviews Create and maintain clear and concise technical documentation What You ll Need 5 years of professional software development experience Expertise in at least one of the following languages Java Scala or Kotlin Solid understanding of software development principles design patterns and best practices Experience with databases SQL and or NoSQL and data migrations Familiarity with message brokers or event-driven architectures e g Kafka RabbitMQ Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker or Kubernetes Experience with Cloud infrastructure AWS Google Cloud or Azure and deploying services at the infra level Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we re proud to have a diverse global team that represents a multitude of backgrounds cultures and experience We hire talented people regardless of race religion color national origin gender gender expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status

📌 Senior Software Engineer (India)
🏢 Tala
📍 India