Staff Backend Engineer to become the founding engineer at Nola. Build the product from 0-1, own backend architecture, and contribute across the stack in a lean team of fewer than 10 people.

Company Details

Nola is an early-stage fintech company building an intelligent financial account. The company is based outside India, with the engineering team based in India. Website: https://nola.money/

Requirements

- 7 to 10 years of software engineering experience primarily with NodeJS (Typescript)
- Strong backend engineering experience with full-stack capability
- Primarily worked at product-based organisations
- Proven experience taking products or major features from 0-1
- Solid ownership and ability to work independently in a lean team
- Experience designing backend systems, APIs, databases, and production services
- Highly active user of AI in day-to-day engineering workflows
- Has built personal projects using AI/LLMs or AI-powered tools
- Curious mindset with strong self-learning ability
- Personal or open-source projects outside of the day job
- Comfortable making engineering and product decisions with limited structure
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills
- Able to translate product requirements into simple, scalable solutions

Responsibilities

- Act as the founding engineer and take end-to-end ownership of the technology
- Build and evolve Nola's backend systems from 0-1
- Design scalable APIs, services, data models,



and system architecture
- Work across the stack when required, while primarily owning backend engineering
- Use AI effectively across the engineering workflow to improve speed and quality
- Experiment with AI-native approaches and build AI-powered capabilities where relevant
- Partner closely with the founding team to shape product and technical decisions
- Take features from idea to production, including design, implementation, testing, and iteration
- Make pragmatic technology choices for a small, fast-moving team
- Own reliability, performance, security, and maintainability of the platform
- Identify technical problems proactively and solve them without waiting for direction

Job Details

- Full-time contract role
- Remote role for candidates based in India
- Compensation is paid as contract income, with no standard employee salary deductions
- Eligible candidates can potentially claim up to 50% of gross receipts as presumptive business/professional income under applicable Indian tax provisions, subject to eligibility and individual tax circumstances. This setup can result in meaningful tax efficiency compared with a standard salaried employment structure

Interview Process

- Intro round
- Technical Round 1
- Technical Round 2
- Culture Round
- Offer Discussion

Important Note ClanX is a recruitment partner, helping Nola hire a Staff Backend Engineer.

📌 Staff Backend Engineer (Founding Team) - Remote (India)
🏢 ClanX
📍 India