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Backend - Technical Lead

Paytm

Paytm

Software Engineering, IT
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Posted on Oct 17, 2024
Backend - Technical Lead
About Paytm
Paytm is India's leading financial services company that offers full-stack payments & financial solutions to consumers, offline merchants and online platforms. We are on a mission to bring half a billion Indians into the mainstream economy through payments, commerce, banking, investments, and financial services. One97 Communications Limited that owns the brand Paytm is founded by Vijay Shekhar Sharma and is headquartered in National Capital Region, India. Its investors include Softbank, Ant Financial, AGH Holdings, SAIF Partners, Berkshire Hathaway, T Rowe Price, and Discovery Capital.
We strive to maintain an open culture where everyone is a hands-on contributor and feels comfortable sharing ideas and opinions. Our team spends hours designing each new feature and obsesses about the smallest of details.
We are looking for hands-on technologists with 6 to 8 years of experience, who will be responsible for architecting & designing new age mobile & web products at Paytm.
Key Responsibilities
· Incumbent will be architecting our futuristic mobile & web products and choose the best technologies, components and subsystems on different server side tech.
· Driving innovations in the product constantly to remain ahead of the curve.
· Serve as a thought leader and mentor on technical, architectural, design and related issues.
· Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions.
· Balance short-term versus long-term actions, strategic versus tactical requirements, while continuing to move forward towards the strategic vision.
· Collaborate with cross functional teams to solve complex problems and build products spanning across multiple teams to deliver end-to-end products & features.
· Estimates efforts, identifies risks, devises and meets project schedules.
· Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise with-in team and cross-team.
· Mentor / coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership to them.
Skills required
MS or BS/B.Tech in computer science or equivalent experience from top college.
Strong software design/development experience in building massively large scale distributed internet systems and products.
Should have experience leading teams.
Hands-on experience in Advance Java and frameworks, Multithreading, collections and MySQL/NoSQL, golang, System Designs etc.
Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills.
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 Stackoverflow, Topcoder, Github, Google Developer Groups (GDGs).
Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoys challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance