About Growfin

Growfin is a fast-growing SaaS company that provides financial management solutions to the finance audience, including Controllers, VP of Finance, CFO. Our platform offers features such as financial reporting, collections, cash application, and cash flow forecasting, designed to streamline financial operations and drive efficiency in cash flow cycles. Our mission is to help finance teams optimize their performance and achieve their goals with an innovative, user-friendly platform. We're proud of our collaborative and dynamic culture, and we're looking for a motivated and ambitious individual to join our team.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the full application lifecycle, from design to implementation, deployment, and ongoing maintenance. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality and scalability of the backend architecture of our web applications.

• Drive development efforts, ensuring high-quality and scalable backend architecture for web applications. This involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless product features and solutions, and performing thorough code reviews to foster a culture of high standards in software engineering and quality assurance.

• Design and implement complex software systems that meet both functional and non-functional business requirements, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability. This involves troubleshooting, debugging, and optimizing application performance at scale, as well as building reusable, modular, and scalable code and libraries for future use.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Front-end, and other engineering teams to deliver seamless product features and solutions. This involves working effectively with cross-functional teams and presenting complex technical ideas clearly.

• Perform thorough code reviews and foster a culture of high standards in software engineering and quality assurance. This involves identifying areas for improvement in both current products and future architectures and proposing solutions for optimization.

• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize application performance at scale. This involves building reusable, modular, and scalable code and libraries for future use, reducing technical debt.

• Build reusable, modular, and scalable code and libraries for future use, reducing technical debt. This involves identifying areas for improvement in both current products and future architectures and proposing solutions for optimization.

• Identify areas for improvement in both current products and future architectures and propose solutions for optimization. This involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless product features and solutions.

• Lead initiatives to improve development processes, tools, and workflows to increase team efficiency. This involves driving technical direction and contributing to long-term product strategy, architecture design, and technology decisions.

• Drive technical direction and contribute to long-term product strategy, architecture design, and technology decisions. This involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless product features and solutions.

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience as a Back-end developer with a proven track record of designing and building large-scale, distributed systems with a focus on backend technologies.

• Expertise in Java, with deep knowledge of the Spring Boot framework, or similar modern backend technologies. In-depth understanding of database systems like MySQL or equivalent, including advanced knowledge of data modeling, optimization, and security.

• Strong problem-solving abilities, with a track record of quickly addressing technical challenges in high-pressure situations. Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and present complex technical ideas clearly.

• Strong proficiency with AWS or similar cloud platforms, including designing and deploying highly scalable, secure cloud-based solutions. Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles, microservices architecture, and related patterns.

• Knowledge of CI/CD processes, testing methodologies, and monitoring tools to ensure system health and stability. Passion for coaching and developing junior engineers, helping them grow their technical skills and career progression.