Slice—Staff Engineer (Backend)

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Description: About the role: We are looking for a Staff Engineer (Backend) to join our technology team. A Staff Engineer at slice is an innovative, quality focused, product minded engineering leader who cares deeply about building reliable systems at scale. You think in systems, you understand technical context, and you use your experience to shape strong engineering outcomes across teams. You’ll be involved in most major technical initiatives, influence engineering culture, and help move the organization in the right direction. You will work closely with Design, Product, Data Science, and Analytics teams to design and develop backend microservices that power critical user and payment experiences across slice. What you will do: - Lead engineering and technology best practices across quality, performance, design, and operations at an organizational level. - Architect and deliver features or entire components with high ownership, whether you're building scalable loan origination workflows across lead conversion, KYC, underwriting, and approvals in LOS or strengthening core banking capabilities across loans, liabilities, term deposits, and branch operations in Branch Banking. - Collaborate with cross functional teams to ship end to end features across LOS and Branch Banking, ensuring reliable loan processing, secure employee workflows, maker-checker controls, transaction processing, and seamless integration with core banking and downstream services. - Drive technical innovation and push the boundaries of how we design and scale large distributed systems across identity, onboarding, or payments domains. - Prioritize effectively and switch contexts across domains as requirements evolve. - Estimate project efforts accurately, identify risks early, propose solutions, and consistently meet delivery timelines. - Lead design, functional, and code review cycles and ensure timely closure of all outstanding issues. - Mentor and coach engineers, enabling them to grow while shaping the technical direction of whichever pod you anchor. - Take a systems level view to understand how changes in onboarding, identity, payments, or compliance ripple across the product. - Improve hiring processes and help bring top tier engineers into the organization. - Represent your team and slice in internal and external engineering forums. What you will need: - 8+ years of strong design and development experience building large scale distributed systems and internet products. - Deep expertise in modern technology stacks and experience across multiple languages or backend ecosystems. - Ability to write maintainable, scalable, and unit testable code. - Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams or project groups. - Strong object oriented skills, knowledge of design patterns, and the ability to design intuitive modules and class level interfaces. - Deep understanding of data driven web application design and development. - Strong organisation, communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills. - Proven performer who thrives in high energy, fast paced, product focused environments. - Self starter who can operate with minimal guidance in a fluid environment. - Ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements, scopes, and priorities. - Contributions to open source or personal projects on GitHub are a strong plus. - Prior experience in a fast paced product company. Life at slice: Life so good, you’d think we’re kidding: - Competitive salaries. Period. - An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependents. We’ll love you and take care of you, our promise. - Flexible working hours. Just don’t call us at 3AM, we like our sleep schedule. - Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life. - A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here. - Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously, not kidding. - Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel like home. An environment so good, you’ll forget the term “colleagues can’t be your friends”. We believe in equality. Period. At slice, we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We never discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by the applicable law. We consider all qualified job-seekers with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the applicable law. Additionally, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities in order to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Come join our crew! About slice: slice A new bank for a new India slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good, because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us. Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, and slice business are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together. We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.