Backend - Senior Technical Lead

Paytm Payments Services; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Paytm Payments Services in Bengaluru, India seeks a Senior Technical Lead to drive architectural decisions, guide a team of developers, and contribute to design and delivery across backend services.

You will lead architecture, implement coding standards, and mentor engineers while hands-on coding on scalable systems using Node.js, microservices and AWS.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of server-side application development experience with Node.js, Microservices and AWS.
• Demonstrated experience delivering highly scalable products.
• An entrepreneurial spirit with strong program and product management skills.
• Proven success in building, motivating and retaining teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent judgment, organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent design and architecture knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed design structure and implement best practices and coding standards.
• Lead and mentor a team of developers for successful project delivery.
• Work on design, architecture and hands-on coding to build scalable backend systems.

Skills

Node.js

Microservices

AWS

Team leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis

Aerospike

RDBMS

Job description

About Us:

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 Sound box, 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

About the role:

As a Senior Technical Lead, 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:

• 8+ years years of server‑side application development experience with Nodejs, Microservices, AWS.
• Demonstrated experience delivering highly scalable productsDeeply technical with a track record of successful delivery.
• An entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong program and product management skills.
• Proven success in building, motivating and retaining teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex plans and designs.
• Excellent judgment, organizational, and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent design and architecture knowledge.

Preferred Qualification:

Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Skills that will help you succeed in this role:

• Tech Stack: Node.js, 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.

Why join us:

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!