Backend - Principal Engineer - Travel Tech
Paytm
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaPosted 2 months ago
Skill Required
TechnologyBackend DeveloperQuery OptimizationSpring BootEngineeringRabbitMQbuildingdesignKafkaRedisJavaNode.jsRAGAWSGitGenerative AIAI
Key highlights
- 8‑12 years of experience building massively large‑scale distributed internet systems.
- Must have hands‑on experience with Advanced Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Node, Agentic AI, LLM, RAG, Cursor, and Copilot.
- Active contributor to developer communities such as Stack Overflow, Topcoder, GitHub, and GDGs.
- Opportunity to work on a platform with 500 million+ registered users and 21 million+ merchants.
- Potential for wealth creation as part of India’s largest digital lending story.
- Role is a Principal Engineer – Backend position.
Role overview
As a Principal Engineer - Backend at Paytm, you will define technical design and implementation roadmaps across multiple solutions, collaborating with engineering leadership to ensure squads are properly resourced and equipped with the right expertise. You will drive large‑scale distributed system development, contributing to Paytm’s digital payments, financial services, and lending platforms.
Responsibilities
- Define technical design and implementation roadmap across multiple solutions.
- Work with engineering leadership to resource and equip squads 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, broader cutting edge technologies around server side development.
- Active contributor to developer communities like 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 fluid environment.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Expertise in Java, DB (RDBMS), Messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ), Caching (Redis/Aerospike), Microservices, 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 difference and have a great time doing it.
- Challenging environment that encourages meaningful work for you and the customers you serve.
- Culture that values technology’s impact on people.
- Collective energy and unwavering focus on the customer drive success.
- Access to Engineering blogs to learn about exciting work in Tech.
- Potential wealth creation for the right fit.
Additional details
- Paytm is India’s leading digital payments and financial services company, offering merchants acquiring devices (Soundbox, EDC, QR, Payment Gateway), commerce services, advertising, Paytm Mini app store, and credit services such as merchant loans, personal loans, and BNPL.
- The company serves over 500 million registered users and more than 21 million merchants.