Tala (formerly InVenture) Now Hiring

The Senior Web Applications Developer helps build Tala’s frontend application to support market operations, new features and migration process. They push the team towards building a highly available, scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant, and performant platform. They are a great collaborator. The Senior Web Applications Developer follows and improves upon Tala’s engineering processes and standards while advancing Tala’s mission and business objectives.

This is a technical role within Tala’s technical track. You will report to the Director Production Support and collaborate cross-functionally with all Tala teams across the globe.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and implement features as defined in the Product roadmap
• Review design documents, perform code reviews, and weigh in on implementation choices from other technical teams
• Collaborate and support cross-functional teams (Product, Data, Credit, CX and Business Development) to ship scalable software solutions
• Help to continually improve our codebase with clean and efficient code as well as solve problems using the most appropriate technology
• Contribute to complete migration of legacy codebase to a microservices architecture
• Contribute to the testing infrastructure to increase code coverage for frontend modules
• Help advance monitoring and alerting capabilities of backend modules to allow proactive improvements to availability and response times

What You’ll Need:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years coding in one or more of the following languages: Javascript, Typescript
• Expert knowledge in building React based frontend applications
• Familiarity with one or more of the following languages: Java, Scala, Kotlin
• Expert knowledge in REST API design and development for mobile/web use
• Familiarity in building services as part of microservices architecture deployed in a cloud environment
• Experience working with both relational (MySQL) and non-relational (Cassandra, Redis) databases
• Experience working with a team distributed globally
• Ability to prioritize and communicate effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency with Agile development process
• Strong documentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to interview candidates and evaluate technical skills and develop junior engineers

Software Development Engineer in Test

What you’ll do:

• Develop and maintain test automation suites to expand test coverage to all our legacy services and microservices.
• Integrate it into regression and release process
• Deliver tools to help test integration with 3rd party services (loans, Payment Rails, SMS/Email, KYC (know your customer), Analytics, etc.)
• Integrate automated tests execution into the software development process
• Collaborate with product lead and other key stakeholders to strategize rollout and support for quality releases.
• Support and collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Data, Credit, and Business Development) in identifying automation areas to further increase the quality of our product
• Maintain, review, propose and implement improvements to existing frameworks, tools, and processes

What you’ll need:

• Minimum 6+ years of experience in building test tools and frameworks using Groovy/ Java/ Scala, Jenkins or similar CI-CD tools, Shell Scripting, Linux/ Mac OSX for either backend or frontend services
• Preferred Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science and/or Math or equivalent skills
• Experience with BDD testing paradigm and one of the Behavior Driven Testing frameworks such as Spock or JBehave or cucumber
• Strong Knowledge  in automation and  microservices architecture.
• Experience working in an Agile development process (Scrum/ Kanban/ Scrumban)
• Experience with one or more version control systems such as Github, Gitlab, Perforce
• Experience in FinTech is a plus
• Excellent ability to communicate and collaborate with a globally distributed team working in different timezones