The Role
Lead technical design and implementation across backend systems, define roadmaps, guide squads, and build massively scalable distributed systems. Hands-on development, performance tuning, and use of Java, Spring Boot, AWS, microservices, messaging, caching, and LLM/agentic AI technologies.
Summary Generated by Built In
Principal Engineer - Backend
About Us:
Paytm is India’s leading digital payments and financial services company, which is focused on driving consumers and merchants to its platform by offering them a variety of payment use cases. To merchants, Paytm offers acquiring devices like Soundbox, EDC, QR and Payment Gateway where payment aggregation is done through PPI and also other banks’ financial instruments. To further enhance merchants’ business, Paytm offers merchants commerce services through advertising and Paytm Mini app store. Operating on this platform leverage, the company then offers credit services such as merchant loans, personal loans and BNPL, sourced by its financial partners.
About the role:
As a Principal Engineer, you will help define the technical design and implementation roadmap across multiple solutions and will work with engineering leadership to ensure we resource and equip our squads with the right expertise to deliver those solutions.
Requirements:
8 to 12 years of strong software design/development experience in building massively large scale distributed internet systems and products
Hands on experience in Advance Java, Spring boot, AWS, Node, Agentic AI, LLM, RAG, Cursor, Copilot
Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge technologies around server side development
Should be an active contributor to developer communities like Stack overflow, Top coder, Git hub, Google Developer Groups (GDGs).
Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment.
Preferred Qualifications : Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Skills that will help you succeed in this role:
Expertise in Java, DB: RDBMS, Messaging: Kafka/RabbitMQ, Caching: Redis/Aerospike, Micro services, AWS
Strong experience in scaling, performance tuning & optimization at both API and storage layers
Problem Solver with a passion for excellence.
Why join us:
Because you get an opportunity to make a difference, and have a great time doing that
You are challenged and encouraged here to do stuff that is meaningful for you and for those we serve
You should work with us if you think seriously about what technology can do for people
We are successful, and our successes are rooted in our people's collective energy and unwavering focus on the customer, and that's how it will always be.
Learn more about the exciting work we do in Tech by reading our Engineering blogs
Compensation:
If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you.
With enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 21 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants – and we are committed to it. India’s largest digital lending story is brewing here. It’s your opportunity to be a part of the story!
Skills Required
- 8 to 12 years experience in software design/development building large-scale distributed internet systems
- Hands-on experience with Advanced Java
- Hands-on experience with Spring Boot
- Hands-on experience with AWS
- Hands-on experience with Node.js
- Experience with Agentic AI, LLM, RAG, Cursor, Copilot
- Experience and knowledge of open source tools and frameworks
- Active contributor to developer communities (Stack Overflow, Topcoder, GitHub, GDGs)
- Strong organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
- Ability to work as a self-starter with minimal guidance
- Expertise in RDBMS
- Experience with messaging systems: Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Experience with caching: Redis or Aerospike
- Experience building microservices
- Strong experience in scaling, performance tuning & optimization at API and storage layers
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
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The Company
What We Do
Paytm started the Digital Revolution in India. And we went on to become India’s leading Payments App. Today, more than 20 Million merchants & businesses are powered by Paytm to Accept Payments digitally. This is because more than 300 million Indians use Paytm to Pay at their stores. And that’s not all, Paytm App is used to Pay bills, do Recharges, Send money to friends & family, Book movies & travel tickets. With innovations to Financial services & products in pipeline, this is but one of the milestones achieved towards our mission – to bring 500 million unserved and underserved Indians to the mainstream economy.
