Backend - Technical Lead
Backend - Technical Lead
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07-08-2025
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Backend - Technical Lead
About Us:
Paytm is Indias largest digital payments and financial services platform leading the mobile QR revolution. We power millions of businesses and individuals and were building scalable resilient systems to serve half a billion Indians and beyond.
Here at Paytm technology isnt just about keeping up its about building the future. We believe the next generation of engineers must not only scale systems to billions but also leverage AI and GPT tools to accelerate innovation
About the Role:
1) As a Technical Lead youll not just write code youll design scalable architectures coach engineers and lead technology-first projects.
2) Youll drive backend systems that support 100M DAUs optimize APIs to sub-50ms latencies and be a champion of engineering excellence.
3) We expect you to actively use AI tools to accelerate architecture design code reviews prototyping and developer productivity.
What Were Looking For:
1) 6-8 years of hands-on backend engineering experience Java Spring Boot AWS.
2)Proven ownership of high-scale distributed systems. Deep knowledge of microservices messaging systems caching storage optimization and cloud scalability.
3)Clear architectural thinking; you can design systems for billions of transactions not just millions.
4)An AI-first mindset you should know how to augment yourself with GPT and other AI coding tools to move 2x faster.
5)Strong leadership skills mentoring code reviewing pushing for engineering best practices.
Why You Should Join Us:
1) Massive ownership and real-world system building opportunities.
2) Work with AI not against it code smarter architect smarter and build smarter.
3) We are a pure tech-driven team inside Paytm no unnecessary meetings no bureaucracy.
4) Youll work on critical platforms live user-impacting systems and future-proof engineering.
Ideal Profile:
1) Obsessed with system scale performance and reliability.
2)Already using or excited to use AI tools (GPT Copilot etc.) for development.
3) Loves deep backend engineering and believes technology should move fast with high impact.
4) Wants to grow into a principal engineer architect or CTO over time.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelors/Masters Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
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. Indias largest digital lending story is brewing here. It is your opportunity to be a part of the story!
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