Staff Engineer

Tazapay; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Tazapay, a cross-border payment service provider, is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead architectural decisions and deliver scalable, secure backend systems. You will mentor engineers, drive cross-team collaboration and apply AI to productivity and features.

The role emphasizes ownership, performance optimization and high-quality design across distributed services, with a focus on reliability and scalability in a fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems
• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Golang, Ruby,Python, .Net Core or Java for large scale applications
• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures
• Expert in at least 1 of the following languages: Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms like AWS or similar
• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking
• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
• Hands-on coder who has built backend services that handle high volume traffic
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
• Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases
• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design
• Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with good degree of predictability
• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks
• Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems
• Ability to get stuff done!

Responsibilities

• Make architectural tradeoffs, design, write and deliver highly scalable, reliable , secure and fault tolerant systems
• Be a role model for engineers, mentor engineers
• Demonstrate technical leadership and create impact across teams
• Apply AI for productivity and for features
• Drive software development while being secure and compliant
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Partner with the product management teams to define and execute the feature roadmap
• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies
• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution
• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight
• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies
• An enormous sense of ownership
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization

Skills

Golang

Python

Java

Ruby

C/C++

Linux

Distributed systems

RESTful services

Cloud AWS

Data modeling

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10+ years of experience

Tools

AWS

Job description

Job Title - Staff Engineer
Location - Chennai/Bangalore

About Tazapay

Tazapay is a cross border payment service provider. We offer local collections via local payment methods, virtual accounts and cards in over 70 markets. The merchant does not need to create local entities anywhere and Tazapay offers the additional compliance framework to take care of local regulations and requirements. This results in decreased transaction costs, fx transparency and higher auth rates.

They are licensed and backed by leading investors. www.tazapay.com

What’s exciting waiting for You?

This is an amazing opportunity for you to join a fantastic crew before the rocket ship launch. It will be a story you will carry with you through your life and have the unique experience of building something ground up and have the satisfaction of seeing your product being used and paid for by thousands of customers. You will be a part of a growth story be it anywhere - Sales, Software Development, Marketing, HR, Accounting etc.

We believe in a culture of openness, innovation & great memories together.

Are you ready for the ride?

Find what interesting things you could do with us.

About the Staff Engineer role

Responsibilities (not exhaustive)

• Make architectural tradeoffs, design, write and deliver highly scalable, reliable , secure and fault tolerant systems
• Be a role model for engineers, mentor engineers
• Demonstrate technical leadership and create impact across teams
• Apply AI for productivity and for features
• Drive software development while being secure and compliant
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Partner with the product management teams to define and execute the feature roadmap
• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies
• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution
• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight
• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies
• An enormous sense of ownership
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization

The Ideal Candidate

Education

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems

Experience

• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Golang, Ruby,Python, .Net Core or Java for large scale applications
• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures
• Expert in at least 1 of the following languages: Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms like AWS or similar
• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking
• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
• Hands-on coder who has built backend services that handle high volume traffic.
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability
• Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases
• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design
• Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with good degree of predictability
• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks
• Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems
• Ability to get stuff done!

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Golang ecosystem
• Prior experience with fintech and payments
• Prior experience with stable coins, blockchain, cryptocurrency technologies
• Familiarity with front end technologies

Abilities and Traits

• Ability to drive agile best practices
• Ability to drive secure best practices
• Ability to provide exceptional attention to details of the product
• Ability to rapidly prototype, build proof of concepts and develop them to production
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions
• Work well as a team player and help the team members to resolve issues
• Be committed to quality and be structured in approach
• Excellent and demonstrable concept formulation, logical and analytical skills
• Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills

Join our team and let's groove together to the rhythm of innovation and opportunity!