PhonePe – Backend Engineer – Java/Scalable Systems

Winzons; India; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

PhonePe in Bengaluru is seeking a Backend Engineer with 5–7 years of experience to build robust and scalable web-based applications. You will craft abstractions, drive architecture improvements, and collaborate with product managers to deliver features.

You should be proficient in Java or C/C++, have strong multi-threading skills, and experience with MySQL and NoSQL databases in distributed systems. We value problem solving and ownership in a startup-like environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming.
• Expert programming in Java, C or C++ with scalable, testable code.
• Experience building scalable business applications with large data volumes.
• Strong object-oriented design, patterns, and modular interfaces.
• Proficient coding skills and ability to translate design to code.

Responsibilities

• Build robust and scalable web-based applications.
• Create abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns.
• Drive problem solving for high-level business and technical challenges.
• Design modules and architectures with guidance and modeling.
• Tune performance for large-scale distributed systems.
• Collaborate with Product Manager to derive capability views and lead projects.
• Mentor teammates and promote strong execution discipline.

Skills

Multi-threading

Concurrency

Java

C

C++

Linux

NoSQL

SQL/MySQL

Education

B.Tech

M.Tech

PhD in CS

Tools

MySQL

HBase

Elasticsearch

Aerospike

Linux

Job description

Company Name: PhonePe

Job Role: Backend Engineer

Work Type: Full-Time

Experience: 5-7 Years

Qualification: B.Tech / M.Tech / PhD in Computer Science or related field

Location: Bengaluru

Industry: Fintech / Digital Payments

Job Description

As a Backend Engineer :

• You will build Robust and Scalable web-based applications.
• Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scope.
• Drive problem-solving skills for high-level business and technical problems.
• Do high-level design with guidance; Functional modeling, break-down of a module.
• Do incremental changes to architecture: impact analysis of the same.
• Do performance tuning and improvements in large scale distributed systems
• Work closely with Product Manager to derive capability view from features/solutions, lead execution of medium-sized projects
• Work with broader stakeholders to track the impact of projects/features and proactively iterate to improve them
• Mentor young minds and foster team spirit, break down execution into phases to bring predictability to overall execution

As a Software Engineer, you must have :

• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming.
• Extensive and expert programming experience in at least one general programming language (e. Java, C, C++) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.
• Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with a huge amount of data.
• Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Excellent coding skills - should be able to convert the design into code fluently.
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development.
• Good understanding of databases (e. MySQL) and NoSQL (e. HBase, Elasticsearch, Aerospike, etc).
• Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platform.
• Worked in a startups environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
• Strong desire to solving complex and interesting real-world problems
• BTech, MTech, or Ph. in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
• 5-7 years of experience in the art of writing code and solving problems on a large scale