Backend - Engineering Manager
Paytm
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- 8–12 years of experience in large‑scale distributed system development.
- Hands‑on experience required with Advanced Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Node, and AI technologies (Agentic AI, LLM, RAG, Cursor, Copilot).
- Preferred academic credential: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Expertise in Java, RDBMS, Kafka/RabbitMQ, Redis/Aerospike, microservices and AWS.
- Opportunity to work on products serving over 500 million registered users and 21 million merchants.
- Company culture emphasizes meaningful impact, personal growth, and wealth creation for employees.
Role overview
As an Engineering Manager, you will help define the technical design and implementation roadmap across multiple solutions and work with engineering leadership to ensure we resource and equip our squads with the right expertise to deliver those solutions.
Responsibilities
- Define the technical design and implementation roadmap across multiple solutions.
- Work with engineering leadership to ensure squads are resourced and equipped with the right expertise to deliver 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, and broader cutting‑edge technologies around server‑side development.
- Active contributor to developer communities such as Stack Overflow, Topcoder, GitHub, Google Developer Groups (GDGs).
- Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Self‑starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in a fluid environment.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Expertise in Java, RDBMS databases, messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Experience with caching technologies such as Redis or Aerospike.
- Experience with microservices architecture and AWS.
- Strong experience in scaling, performance tuning & optimization at both API and storage layers.
- Problem‑solver with a passion for excellence.
Benefits
- Opportunity to make a meaningful impact and work on technology that benefits consumers and merchants.
- Culture that encourages meaningful, challenging work and personal growth.
- Chance to be part of India’s largest digital lending story, democratizing credit for consumers and merchants.
- Access to learn more about tech work through company Engineering blogs.
- Company believes in creating wealth for the right fit.
Additional details
- Paytm is India’s leading digital payments and financial services company, offering payment use cases for consumers and merchants.
- Merchants can use acquiring devices such as Soundbox, EDC, QR and Payment Gateway, with payment aggregation via PPI and other banks’ financial instruments.
- Paytm also provides merchants commerce services through advertising and the Paytm Mini app store.
- The platform offers credit services including merchant loans, personal loans and BNPL, sourced by financial partners.
- Paytm has over 500 million registered users and more than 21 million merchants, providing a deep data ecosystem.