Principal Software Development Engineer

M2P; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive and People-First Culture

Health & Wellness Programs

Comprehensive Medical Insurance

Recognition Programs

Performance-based ESOPs

Learning Opportunities

Job summary

M2P Fintech is seeking a Principal SDE to build scalable, high-performance, highly available systems in a fast-paced fintech environment. You will lead a cross-functional team, translating business needs into robust technical solutions while owning end-to-end delivery and operations.

You will drive architectural decisions, set technical goals, and mentor engineers to deliver durable, low-latency services. This Chennai-based role blends leadership with hands-on coding excellence.

Qualifications

• BE/B.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 12+ years of software development experience with 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Strong OO design, design patterns, and intuitive interfaces.
• Experience building complex, scalable, high-performance services.
• Hands-on coder with debugging and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end development life cycle from conception to delivery and operations.
• Collaborate with product managers to define strategy and roadmaps.
• Work with engineers to define technical designs for new products.
• Instill best practices, ensure designs meet requirements, and deliver on tight schedules.
• Partner with market-leading fintech features and own engineering timelines.

Skills

Node.js

Java

Software Architecture

Distributed Systems

Leadership

High Performance

Education

BE/B.Tech in Computer Science

Tools

RESTful Services

SQL/NoSQL

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Job description

Designation: Principal SDE -Node JS

Location: Chennai

Experience: 12-15 years

Who Are We?

M2P Fintech is a leading Banking Technology Platform, shaping the future of digital finance. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Chennai, we have a strong footprint across 30+ countries in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East & Africa (MEA), and Oceania.

At the forefront of next gen fintech, we drive innovation in banking, lending, and payments infrastructure. Powering global fintech transactions, our comprehensive technology stack enables seamless banking solutions, lending platforms, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services, customized credit cards, prepaid cards, and more.

About the Role

M2P Fintech is looking for Principal SDE to build scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed. As part of a cross functional team, you will be working in a fast-paced and agile work environment delivering quality and innovative solutions that have immediate business impact.

You need to take the challenges and ownership that comes while developing a complex system. You should be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility.

What Will You Do in this Role

• Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution from conception to delivery to operations.
• Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities that helps them succeed in their business goals.
• Work closely with engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
• Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
• Partner and integrate with the best in market to bring is best in class embedded fintech features.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.
• Solve complex problems in an innovative way and deliver quality solutions while taking ownership and accountability of assigned things.

What Youll Need to be Successful in this Role

• B.E or B.Tech in Computer Science or any equivalent degree.
• Experienced technology leader with 12+ years of software development experience in Java including, 5+ years in building and leading strong engineering teams.
• Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions.
• Strong object-oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Strong service architecture and development experience with high performance and scalability
• Strong at technical goal setting for a project with actionable success metrics. Good knowledge and experience on measuring a service from user experience angle.
• Strong on driving for results and self-motivated, strong learning mindset, with good understanding of related advanced/new technology. Keep up with the technology development in the related areas in the industry, which could be leveraged to enhance current architectures and build durable new ones.
• Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and concepts to multiple organization levels and executive management.
• Good problem-solving skills with strong analytical thinking.
• Hands-on coder with excellent debugging skills.

Perks and Benefits

• Inclusive and People-First Culture
• Health & Wellness Programs
• Comprehensive Medical Insurance
• Recognition Programs
• Performance-based ESOPs
• Learning Opportunities