Software Development Engineer - II (Frontend)
Bengaluru/Mumbai
Technology – Engineering /Full-Time
About Upstox:
Upstox is one of India's leading Fin-Tech companies with a mission to simplify trading & investing to
make it easily accessible to the masses. We aim to enable everyone, from new investors to seasoned
traders, to invest across multiple categories with our state-of-the-art trade & investment platform
and commission-free pricing. We offer numerous asset categories to invest in, like Stocks, Digital
Gold, IPOs, Mutual Funds, and more.
By focusing on our customers’ needs and equipping them with personalized yet powerful tools, we
witnessed a steep growth of 800% in our customer base from 25 Thousand in 2017 to 2 Lakh in
2019. With 1500% growth in 2020, currently, over 3 million customers trust us with their investment
decisions, thus setting us on the course to become an industry leader in the country.
The company was founded in 2009 by Ravi Kumar and Shrinivas Viswanath, and in2016 Kavitha
Subramanian joined as the third co-founder. Backed by Ratan Tata, weraised $4 million in Series A
funding (2016) led by Kalaari Capital. In 2019, US-based investment firm Tiger Global Management
invested $25 million in a Series B funding round. Visit our Linkedin page to learn more about us.
About the Team:
We are a Formula-1 team where every millisecond counts. Here, we are continuously innovating and
building highly scalable backend systems and strategies that give a seamless experience to our
customers even during large volumes of traffic hitting our systems.
A glimpse of what we do:
Creating and improving multiple products via continuous delivery Embrace and enable DevOps
culture within the organization Data driven approach to build new products and features Build new
tech innovations to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service
our customers better.
What we want:
We are looking for talented engineers with strong foundations who can learn and pick up new tools
on the fly. We want you to share our passion for developing products that will help change the
landscape for fin-tech in India. You would be working with the latest web technologies to build new
features, improve performance and reliability of existing features, and improve our development
processes as we scale our company.
Roles & Responsibilities:
1) Design and build efficient, scalable systems that are used by millions of people.
2) Own what you build as you create, test and refine what’s under the hood of our pages and services.
3) Implement and maintain features, improve performance and reliability in our frontend web
experiences.
4) Interact with Product, Design and Engineering teams to spec, build, test and deploy new features
5) Improve testing and reliability by improving existing tests and writing new ones perform Peer Code Reviews.
6) Investigate production issues pertaining to the user interface to determine root cause and
implement solutions.
What you need:
1) You have 3-5 years of experience building applications on the web platform with JavaScript, HTML
and CSS.
2) Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, and Flux. 3) Strong fundamentals on Web Standards, Browser Performance and Rendering Pipelines, HTTP and
other relevant concepts.
4) You have a get-things-done attitude and deep empathy for users and fellow teammates.
5) You can write testable, maintainable code that’s easy to understand.
6) Ability to take complex problems and break them down into smaller tasks & You have a curiosity
about how things work.
Psst… tips on how you can beat the competition:
If you can showcase your abilities to:·
Be self-driven / quick starter·
Have an ownership mindset·
Aggressively drive and deliver results
If you fit the above description, we would love to connect with you! APPLY NOW
A basic requirement but one that many forget: Make sure you go through our website, download
our app and give us feedback!
Upstox is an Equal Opportunity Employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual
orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.