over 1 year ago
Noida, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design scalable backend architectures and systems for billions of transactions.
- Build and optimize backend systems and APIs supporting 100M+ daily active users and sub-50ms latencies.
- Own high-scale distributed systems involving messaging, caching, storage optimization, and cloud scalability.
- Coach and mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and promote engineering best practices.
- Lead technology-first projects and use GPT and other AI coding tools for architecture design, prototyping, reviews, and developer productivity.
Requirements
- 6+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience with Node.js.
- Proven ownership of high-scale distributed systems.
- Deep knowledge of microservices, messaging systems, caching, storage optimization, and cloud scalability.
- Strong architectural thinking and ability to design systems for billions of transactions.
- Strong leadership, mentoring, code review, and engineering excellence skills.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Significant ownership and opportunities to build real-world systems at scale.
- Work on critical, live user-impacting platforms within a technology-focused team.
- Opportunity to work with AI tools to improve coding and architecture.
- Paytm states that it is committed to creating wealth for employees.
- The role is based within Paytm’s India-focused digital payments and financial services organization.
About Paytm
Paytm builds a digital payments and financial services platform for consumers and merchants in India, spanning the Paytm app for UPI, wallet and bill pay, plus QR/POS and Soundbox devices for in-store acceptance. It monetizes through payment processing fees, merchant subscriptions, and commissions on financial products such as lending and insurance. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Noida, it is publicly listed in India and serves over 300M users and 20M merchants.