Backend - Principal Engineer - Travel Tech

One97 Communications Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Paytm, India's leading digital payments and financial services company, seeks a Principal Engineer in Bengaluru to help define the technical design and implementation roadmap across multiple solutions. You will work with engineering leadership to ensure squads have the right expertise to deliver scalable systems.

8–12 years of hands-on software design/development experience with Java/Spring Boot, AWS, Node, and AI technologies is required, along with strong leadership and communication skills.

Qualifications

• 8 to 12 years of software design/development experience in building massively large scale distributed internet systems and products.
• Hands on experience in 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.
• Should be an active contributor to developer communities like Stack Overflow, Topcoder, GitHub, Google Developer Groups (GDGs)
• Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
• Must be a self‑starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in a fluid environment

Responsibilities

• Define the technical design and implementation roadmap across multiple solutions.
• Work with engineering leadership to ensure we resource and equip our squads with the right expertise to deliver those solutions.
• Drive scalable, high-performance distributed systems across API and storage layers.
• Mentor engineers and foster best practices across teams.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Node.js

AI/LLM/RAG

Microservices

Leadership

Education

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

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis

Aerospike

Cloud tooling

Job description

Paytm is India’s leading digital payments and financial services company, which is focused on driving consumers and merchants to its platform by offering them a variety of payment use cases. To merchants, Paytm offers acquiring devices like Soundbox, EDC, QR and Payment Gateway where payment aggregation is done through PPI and also other banks’ financial instruments. To further enhance merchants’ business, Paytm offers merchants commerce services through advertising and Paytm Mini app store. Operating on this platform leverage, the company then offers credit services such as merchant loans, personal loans and BNPL, sourced by its financial partners.

About the role

As a Principal Engineer, you will help define the technical design and implementation roadmap across multiple solutions and will work with engineering leadership to ensure we resource and equip our squads with the right expertise to deliver those 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 advanced 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
• Should be an active contributor to developer communities like Stack Overflow, Topcoder, GitHub, Google Developer Groups (GDGs)
• Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
• Must be a self‑starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in a fluid environment

Preferred Qualifications

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

Skills that will help you succeed in this role

• Expertise in Java, 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

Compensation

We believe in creating wealth for you as the right fit. 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!