The Role
Lead and mentor a backend engineering team to design, architect, and build scalable, highly available microservices using Java and Spring Boot. Drive technical decisions, performance tuning, observability, and migration of workloads to public cloud (AWS). Collaborate with product and architects to deliver reliable systems and improve engineering and operational excellence.
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About Us:
Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology.
About the role:
As an Senior Engineering Manager, you will be developing the detailed design structure, implementing the best practices and coding standards, leading a team of developers for successful delivery of the project. You will be working on design, architecture and hands-on coding.
Requirements:
9 to 13 years in Technical development with 5+ years in Providing technical leadership for high performance teams.
Work closely with business and product teams to understand the requirements, drive design, architecture and influence the choice of technology to deliver solutions working closely with architects and leadership team.
Build robust, scalable, highly available and reliable systems using Micro Services Architecture based on Java, Spring boot.
Improve Engineering and Operational Excellence by identifying and building the right solutions for observability and manageability.
Keep the tech stack current with the goal to optimize for scale, cost and performance.
Migrate workloads to public cloud.
Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced environment.
Serve as a thought leader and mentor on technical, architectural, design and related issues.
Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions.
Preferred Qualification : Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Skills that will help you succeed in this role:
Tech Stack: Lang: 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
Hands-on leader, and 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
- 9 to 13 years in technical development
- 5+ years providing technical leadership for high-performance teams
- Experience building microservices architecture using Java and Spring Boot
- Experience with RDBMS
- Experience with messaging systems (Kafka or RabbitMQ)
- Experience with caching technologies (Redis or Aerospike)
- Experience with AWS and migrating workloads to public cloud
- Strong experience in scaling, performance tuning and optimization at API and storage layers
- Hands-on leadership, mentoring and problem solving skills
- 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.
