What the role involves
About Us
Swadesh is building India's first digital bank for Non Resident Indians. We’re replacing the broken infrastructure and banking experience for the largest expat population in the world to enable greater capital flow back to India.
Who We Are 👋
We're a team of 🇮🇳 lovers who believe passionately about the cross border financial technology opportunity to connect India & USA more closely. We understand the pain, the sleepless nights, and the sheer luck that it takes to build better lives for our families abroad.
We have first hand experienced the broken banking and investing experience in India as Non Resident Indians. We care about giving back, and want to do this by building better financial systems to allow us to generate more wealth for all Indians at home and abroad.
What You’ll Do
Responsible for setting the product direction, being part of all major architecture decisions, and building the backend infrastructure, internal ledger etc.
Iterating directly with founders to scope product and features to build the best solution.
Setting up and maintaining engineering processes as the company scales.
Hiring, cultivating, and mentoring new engineers (and other team members) as they join the team.
Minimum Qualifications
4-7+ years of experience as an individual contributor with a modern programming language like Java, Python, Go, etc.
1-4 years of experience as an individual contributor with modern front-end frameworks like React, Angular, Elm, Vue, etc.
Demonstrated ability to work in an engineering lead capacity in terms of scope of responsibilities undertaken etc.
Have a strong demonstrated ability to ship high-quality products, both at work and outside of work. We love engineers that build side-projects or contribute to open-source repos
Nice to Haves
Previous founding or startup experience
Experience working at a fintech company or on a financial product related team.
What they ask for
About Swadesh
We offer a free US FDIC Insured Checking account, Free Credit Card (no interest rate, collateral, fees), Free AT&T SIM Card shipped to home with 40%+ cheaper plans than retail, and save thousands of dollars in remittances to our customers - all by opening a free Swadesh Account. We enable new to America expats become "American" in the eyes of the US Financial system. We're starting by serving the 150,000+ Indian expats migrating to the US each year. We have a comprehensive solution that covers banking, credit building, communication, remittance, as well as value-add services such as insurance, housing etc. along with all the standard bells and whistles of neobanks.
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