Backend - Engineering Manager

One97 Communications Limited; Dadri; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Paytm is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager in India to lead a high‑caliber development team, delivering scalable microservices in Java/Spring Boot. You will shape architecture, codify best practices, and drive cross-functional collaboration with product and business units.

You will mentor engineers, own design decisions, and champion observability and performance. The role emphasizes leadership in a fast-paced, value‑driven environment and cloud‑first delivery strategies.

Qualifications

• 9 to 13 years in Technical development with 5+ years in providing technical leadership for high performance teams.
• Work closely with business and product teams to understand requirements and drive design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers for successful delivery of projects.
• Design, architecture and hands-on coding.
• Mentor team on technical, architectural and design issues.
• Migrate workloads to public cloud and optimize for scale and cost.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

AWS

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis

Aerospike

API Performance Tuning

Observability

Education

Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis

Aerospike

AWS

Spring Boot

Job description

Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology.

About the role

As an Senior Engineering Manager, you will be developing the detailed design structure, implementing the best practices and coding standards, leading a team of developers for successful delivery of the project. You will be working on design, architecture and hands-on coding.

Requirements

9 to 13 years in Technical development with 5+ years in Providing technical leadership for high performance teams.

Work closely with business and product teams to understand the requirements, drive design, architecture and influence the choice of technology to deliver solutions working closely with architects and leadership team.

Build robust, scalable, highly available and reliable systems using Micro Services Architecture based on Java, Spring boot.

Improve Engineering and Operational Excellence by identifying and building the right solutions for observability and manageability.

Keep the tech stack current with the goal to optimize for scale, cost and performance.

Migrate workloads to public cloud.

Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced environment.

Serve as a thought leader and mentor on technical, architectural, design and related issues.

Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions.

Preferred Qualification

Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Skills that will help you succeed in this role

Tech Stack: Lang: Java, DB: RDBMS, Messaging: Kafka/RabbitMQ, Caching: Redis/Aerospike, Micro services, AWS.

Strong experience in scaling, performance tuning & optimization at both API and storage layers

Hands‑on leader, and problem solver with a passion for excellence.

Because you get an opportunity to make a difference, and have a great time doing that.

You are challenged and encouraged here to do stuff that is meaningful for you and for those we serve.

You should work with us if you think seriously about what technology can do for people.

We are successful, and our successes are rooted in our people's collective energy and unwavering focus on the customer, and that's how it will always be.

Learn more about the exciting work we do in Tech by reading our Engineering blogs.

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.

India’s largest digital lending story is brewing here.

It’s your opportunity to be a part of the story!

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