We are building the reporting and database layer of a financial company: DARI is a working production system with daily active usage across a cross functional team. The platform runs on AWS (EC2), PostgreSQL, a Django/GraphQL backend, and a ReactJS frontend, deployed via GitLab CI. This is not a greenfield build; it is a live, revenue-critical system serving real investors, with real data sensitivity requirements.

The hire will inherit and strengthen a founder-built codebase that works but needs architectural depth, security hardening, and the engineering discipline to scale.

Your first responsibility is straightforward: Understand the existing architecture as you continue to build systems on top of it. The systems built will have cross functional usage and will have an immediate use case on the user base you are building for.

You will own the end-to-end technology for DARI — backend architecture, data systems, API design, deployment infrastructure. This is a backend-first, hands-on engineering role. The immediate job is strengthening DARI's architecture, data integrity, security posture, and deployment discipline. Over time, the role expands into shaping what investors see and how the platform drives business decisions.

You will be the technical voice in a small, high-ownership team. You will work directly with the founders and the business team, not through layers of product management.

Responsibilities:

- Own and evolve the Django/GraphQL backend — API design, data flows, query performance, system reliability
- Strengthen the PostgreSQL data layer — schema design, data modeling, migrations, and data integrity across client portfolios, transactions, and distributor records




- Design and enforce multi-tenant data isolation across PMS and AIF structures
- Own AWS infrastructure (EC2), Docker containers, CI/CD pipelines (GitLab), and production deployment
- Build and maintain automated report generation — monthly factsheets, tax reports, audited statements, and operational MIS
- Implement and maintain authentication, authorization (RBAC), encryption, audit logging, and respond to VAPT findings
- Maintain and improve the ReactJS frontend that the business team and investors use daily
- Help shape the client-facing dashboard — what investors see, how they interact with their portfolio data
- Establish clean development, QA, and release processes across the team

Skills (Must-have):

Python/Django backend engineering, PostgreSQL (schema design, query optimization, migrations), API design (REST and GraphQL), system architecture and data modeling, AWS infrastructure (EC2), Docker, CI/CD (GitLab), application security (RBAC, JWT, OAuth, encryption, OWASP (Top 10), ReactJS (working proficiency)

The person who will do well here:

You are backend-first. You think in data models, system boundaries, and failure modes before you think in UI components. You have inherited a codebase before; you know how to read someone else’s architecture, strengthen it without rewriting everything, and bring discipline incrementally.

Selection Process:

- CV and code sample review
- Technical conversation: architecture, data modeling, and system design (not leetcode)
- Take-home or pairing exercise: a small, realistic problem reflecting the kind of work you will do here
- Conversation with the founders: mutual fit, working style, and what you want to build

📌 System Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Itus Capital Advisors
📍 Chennai