HDFC Securities - Technical Lead - Golang/Java

About Us

HDFC securities is one of the leading stock broking companies in India and a subsidiary of HDFC Bank, a renowned private sector bank.

It has been serving a diverse customer base of retail and institutional investors since 2000. Headquartered in Mumbai, it offers an exhaustive product suite to help its customers invest in Equities, IPO/OFS, Buybacks, Mutual Funds, ETFs, Futures & Options for - Equity, Currency, and Commodities, Fixed Deposits, Bonds, NCDs, and National Pension Scheme, along with value added services like Online Will writing and Tax filing.

The company offers a host of digital platforms like Mobile Trading App, Desktop based online trading facility, ProTerminal - an advanced trading platform and Arya - a voice enabled investing assistant. It also offers Call N Trade facility and dedicated Relationship Managers to assist customers. Since its inception, the company has established itself as a preferred trading platform (for NSE & BSE), with its integrated 3-in-1 account (Trading + Demat + Savings) backed by state-of-the-art technology. Over the years, the company has won many awards and recognitions. Currently, the company has 250+ branches across 190 cities, serving over 2.1 million customers.

We recently launched a discount broking platform called HDFC Sky in addition to HDFC InvestRight, which is our existing full service broking platform.

We are currently enhancing and scaling these platforms even further to continue to delight our valued customers.

If this sounds exciting to you, come join us!

As a Backend Technical Lead, You Will

• Lead, mentor, and guide a team of backend developers, providing technical expertise and fostering a collaborative environment to achieve project goals effectively
• Oversee the design, development, testing, and deployment of backend applications using Java / Golang/ Elixir ensuring adherence to best practices, coding standards, and project timelines
• Architect, build and deploy backend applications from scratch
• Interact with stakeholders to understand requirements, analyse impact of changes, come up with reasonable timelines and execute
• Plan & execute extensive load testing for services
• Create an execution plan for the team to iterate based on the load test findings to ensure a resilient, self healing set of subsystems which have loose coupling and high cohesion
• Understand & analyse existing systems to identify improvements & performance / maintenance issues Fix or rebuild existing systems to ensure resilience
• Write extensive test cases in a way that systems can be easily modified in future with confidence & without ambiguity
• Build ETL pipelines to collect data in a Data lake. Use the Data lake to power BI and generate reports
• Maintain clear and concise documentation of technical specifications, code changes, and architectural decisions
• Prepare growth plan for the team and help them achieve it
• Provide regular feedback for the team
  
  

We Are Looking For Someone With

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Backend technologies
• Experience in at least one of Java, Elixir or Golang
• Experience with debugging & solving issues in a cloud environment
• Experience with PostgreSQL or similar database
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Deep understanding of technology and architecture in a highly scalable and available environment
• Experience with open-source technologies such as Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka etc and their adoption into products
• Proven experience in leading and managing development teams, providing technical guidance and mentorship
• Willingness to work in a startup like environment
• B.E / B. Tech / MCA
  
  

Following Aspects Would Be a Plus

• Prior experience in FinTech
• Experience in using AWS services such as S3, SNS, SQS etc.
• Contributed to open-source projects
• Experience with Big data pipelines
• Experience with BI tool
  
  

(ref:hirist.tech)