Software Development Engineer - 3

AssetPlus
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

AssetPlus is redefining the future of wealth management. We're a fast-scaling SaaS fintech platform powering mutual fund distributors (MFDs) and financial advisors with tools that modernise how investments are managed. Our mission is to build India's best assisted wealth management platform, helping millions of households achieve their financial goals.

Engineering at AssetPlus is a growth led, high-velocity team of ~18 engineers organized into three product pods. We ship on a modern, AI-enabled Node.js + TypeScript + MongoDB stack, own our systems in production, and hold a high technical and cultural bar. If you want to solve meaningful problems at scale with real ownership, this is the place.

The Role

We are looking for a deeply hands-on SDE-3 who owns features end-to-end and raises the quality bar within a pod. You bring strong technical judgment, speed, clarity and simplicity to everything you build. You will be a core builder inside one product pod: designing services, writing production Node.js + TypeScript, shaping MongoDB schemas, debugging across backend, React and Flutter, and keeping the systems you own reliable. You will use AI as a cognitive partner to move faster without lowering the bar.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Systems

  • Design and build scalable, resilient services within your pod's domain.
  • Contribute to system design reviews and argue trade-offs with first-principles reasoning.
  • Decide what to build vs reuse vs adopt open-source, and explain the call.
  • Follow and strengthen the architecture patterns the team has agreed on.

Hands-On Engineering

  • Write high-quality Node.js + TypeScript code - readable, tested, production-grade.
  • Design efficient MongoDB schemas and build complex aggregations.
  • Debug issues across React, Flutter and Backend, down to the infra and DB layer.
  • Leverage AI capabilities and develop at a high pace with good taste.

AI Driven Engineering

  • Use AI as a cognitive partner to accelerate coding, debugging, design and decision-making.
  • Orchestrate models, tools, context and workflows into a productive AI-powered engineering loop.
  • Continuously adopt new AI capabilities to compound speed and improve system quality.
  • Bring AI native practices into your pod's day-to-day workflow.

Reliability & Support

  • Monitor the systems you own and catch issues early.
  • Respond to critical incidents with urgency - including off-hours when it matters.
  • Drive root-cause analysis, performance improvements and observability.

Developer Experience & Quality

  • Contribute to improving developer workflows, tooling and automation.
  • Maintain high standards around clarity, testing, security and simplicity.
  • Advocate for minimal, robust and maintainable engineering.

Leadership & Collaboration

  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and review their work closely.
  • Communicate decisions clearly and confidently.
  • Be approachable, energetic and easy to build with.

What we are looking for;

Must have

  • 6–8 years of full stack experience with a backend-heavy core (experience range is indicative - we hire for ownership, not tenure)
  • Strong Node.js + TypeScript in production; you have owned services end-to-end, not just contributed
  • Solid MongoDB - schema design, indexing, complex aggregations
  • Built and operated systems under real load; comfortable being on the hook when they break
  • Strong debugging across backend, frontend and DB layer
  • Pragmatic engineering judgment - simple > clever; sound build vs reuse vs open-source calls
  • Strong communicator - can clearly explain a system you owned and the decisions behind it

Strongly Preferred

  • Hands-on AWS - CloudWatch, ECS, Amplify, Lambda, SQS, SES
  • React and/or Flutter exposure - enough to debug across the stack
  • Fintech, wealth-tech or SEBI-regulated product experience
  • Daily use of AI coding tools as a real productivity multiplier, not a novelty
  • Experience mentoring juniors and running meaningful code reviews
  • CI/CD, Docker and GitHub-based workflows in a fast-shipping team

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