Engineering Manager - Backend ( Insurance Tech )

One97 Communications Limited; Dadri; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Paytm is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team. You will drive architecture, hands-on coding, and delivery of scalable microservices built with Java and Spring Boot on AWS.

You will mentor engineers and collaborate with product and leadership to shape technical strategy. The role requires 9–13 years of technical development with at least 5 years in leadership, a strong focus on performance, scalability, and operational excellence, and migration of

Qualifications

• 9 to 13 years in technical development with 5+ years in leadership.
• Drive design, architecture and technology decisions with stakeholders.
• Build scalable microservices using Java/Spring Boot on AWS.
• Improve observability and operational excellence.
• Migrate workloads to public cloud.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers to deliver projects on time with quality.
• Collaborate with product and business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Define and enforce coding standards, design patterns and best practices.
• Mentor engineers and promote a culture of high performance and learning.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

AWS

Kafka

Redis

Aerospike

RDBMS

Caching

Team leadership

Education

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

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

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.

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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