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Mathew Jacob

@mathewjacob

Backend engineer specializing in scalable Django APIs, payments systems, and team leadership.

India
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What I'm looking for

I seek an SDE-2/backend role on fast-moving product teams where I can deepen system design expertise, solve high-scale backend problems, and mentor engineers.

I am a backend engineer with three years of experience building and scaling Django APIs and leading core system design at a YCombinator-backed startup. I specialize in backend architecture, RESTful APIs, performance optimization, and maintainable codebases.

At OneFin I led an eight-engineer backend squad while remaining hands-on, scaling a payments platform to 90,000+ monthly transactions and 100,000+ monthly API requests, achieving 99.9% uptime and sub-200ms p95 latency. I drove enterprise integrations, automated loan-book workflows that freed 40+ ops hours per month, and helped double AUM from ₹500Cr to ₹1,000Cr in 18 months.

I built internal frameworks for AI agents, developed high-traffic REST APIs, and mentored junior engineers to improve code quality and team performance. I am seeking an SDE-2 role where I can deepen system design work and contribute to fast-moving product teams solving complex backend problems at scale.

Experience

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Education

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Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts logoSA

Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts

Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Science, Liberal Arts (Computer Science minor)

2018 - 2022

Activities and societies: Batch Representative; Student Council member; awarded ₹1,00,000 merit scholarship in 5th semester

Completed a BA/B.Sc. Liberal Arts with core computer science coursework and a CS minor; received a merit scholarship and served on the student council.

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