Engineering Manager - Backend ( Insurance Tech )

Paytm Payments Services; Dadri; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Paytm Payments Services is seeking an Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high‑performing team responsible for design, architecture and hands‑on coding across microservices.

You will mentor engineers, drive scalable cloud‑enabled solutions on AWS, oversee observability, performance tuning, and ensure delivery excellence with Java/Spring Boot stacks. This role emphasizes technical leadership, collaboration with product and business teams, and a track record of shipping reliable systems at scale.

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, drive design and architecture.
• Build robust, scalable, highly available systems using Micro Services Architecture based on Java, Spring boot.
• Migrate workloads to public cloud and keep stack current for scale, cost and performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers for successful delivery of projects.
• Drive design, architecture and influence technology choices.
• Mentor engineers on technical, architectural and design issues.
• Improve observability and manageability of systems and services.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Problem solving

Adaptability

Education

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

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis

Aerospike

Microservices

AWS

Job description

About Us:

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.

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!