Software Development Engineer -4 (Backend Platform)

Job Description

About Groww:

We are a passionate group of people focused on making financial services accessible to every Indian through a multi-product platform. Each day, we help millions of customers take charge of their financial journey. Customer obsession is in our DNA. Every product, every design, every algorithm down to the tiniest detail is executed keeping the customers’ needs and convenience in mind. Our people are our greatest strength. Everyone at Groww is driven by ownership, customer-centricity, integrity and the passion to constantly challenge the status quo.

Are you as passionate about defying conventions and creating something extraordinary as we are? Let’s chat.

Our Vision

Every individual deserves the knowledge, tools, and confidence to make informed financial decisions. At Groww, we are making sure every Indian feels empowered to do so through a cutting-edge multi-product platform offering a variety of financial services. Our long-term vision is to become the trusted financial partner for millions of Indians.

Our Values

Our culture enables us to be what we are — India’s fastest-growing financial services company. It fosters an environment where collaboration, transparency, and open communication take center-stage and hierarchies fade away. There is space for every individual to be themselves and feel motivated to bring their best to the table, as well as craft a promising career for themselves.

The values that form our foundation are:

• Radical customer centricity
• Ownership-driven culture
• Keeping everything simple
• Long-term thinking
• Complete transparency

What you’ll do

• The Software Development Engineer’s core responsibilities include working on highly maintainable and unit-tested software components/systems that address real-world problems.
• Experienced in microservices-based architecture, can work on cloud infrastructures like GCP, AWS, etc
• Should take the e2e ownership of product/feature right from design, code, and deployment.
• Ensure quality at every level be it problem-solving, design, code, or bug fixes.
• Should be able to collaborate with product managers, architects, and other stakeholders to ensure smooth execution of sprints.
• Own and unblock users on production issues, able to troubleshoot and fix production issues on priority.
• Can mentor and help other team members and ensure that the overall productivity of the team is high.

What are we looking for :

• 8 -10 years of experience in building scalable restful/soap microservice services.
• Good at high-level design and implementation. Understanding of design patterns.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Good understanding of data structures & algorithms and their space & time complexities.
• Strong hands-on and practical working experience with Java and Spring.
• Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert the design into code fluently.
• Strong technical aptitude and a good knowledge of CS fundamentals.
• B Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college.
• You are expected to demonstrate good learnability and adopt technologies that help build large-scale, performant, reliable, and sustainable systems.