About Velocity: -
Velocity is building the future of financial services for new-age businesses in India. Our vision is to build products that empower new age businesses by solving multiple growth problems for them.
Through revenue based financing, we provide the easiest and fastest way out there to raise growth capital to fulfill marketing and inventory spends of online businesses
Through Velocity Pay, we aim to simplify your business payments with our all-in-one solution. Easily manage invoices, make payments through multiple methods, and seamlessly reconcile transactions.
Through Velocity Insights, we unleash the power of your data to drive better business decisions
We are a series-A funded start-up, building new fintech products for small businesses. Founders are IIT-IIM alumni, with prior experience across management consulting, venture capital and fintech startups. We are driven by the mission to empower small business owners with technology and dramatically improve their access to financial services. We have raised a total of $30M across 2 rounds of funding and are backed by some of the most marquee global investors including Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures.
Responsibilities:
Maintain a very high bar for the quality of the code. Make sure the right technical architecture and design patterns are used for building a feature. Be an active code-reviewer for your team.
Plan and execute the release, rollback and migration meticulously.
Own the product metrics along with the product manager. Brainstorm and align the product solutions with PMs during product discovery.
Ensures that production bugs are kept at minimum (Sentry Issues + L2 Issues). Also, make sure that the production bugs are resolved with detailed RCA with highest priority
Track key engineering metrics like API Latency, Error throughput, code complexity
Lead the daily standup to get daily updates from team and unblock team members wherever required. Ensure high work discipline and intensity in every team members.
Give appropriate and timely feedback to team members to ensure high efficiency, speed and quality of the work.
Maintain prioritized tech backlog including tech debts and pick up in the sprints as and when required.
Maintain a healthy conflict with PMs and business teams to ensure high business impact of the engineering teams’ work.
Qualifications:
5+ years of engineering experience, a startup experience is a plus.
Communication skills that demonstrate emotional intelligence and compassion to build trust, resolve conflicts, and provide feedback to your team
Experience in Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform tools
Strong first-hand experience with data pipelines and relational databases such as Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server or MySQL
Experience with DevOps tools (GitHub, Travis CI, and Jenkins)
Experience working in Agile and Scrum development process
Basic understanding of Kubernetes & docker is a must
Velocity culture
It doesn't matter what your last name is or what you scored in English in class 5, but if you are creative, crave difficult problems, can work in teams, are obsessed with customer feedback , we would love to talk to you. What we can assure you is a workplace that’s fun, cares about your growth, challenges you and bestows great responsibilities to those with great powers.
Benefits
Comprehensive medical insurance for your family
Cult-fit Membership
Employee friendly ESOP Policy
Free Lunch and Snacks
Monthly brand vouchers worth INR 1,000
Relocation allowances