Technical Lead -Backend (Gold)

One97 Communications Limited; Dadri; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Paytm, India's leading mobile payments and financial services platform, is seeking a Tech Lead for the Gold Tech team to drive architecture, delivery, and reliability of Paytm Digital Gold. You will own modules end-to-end, guide design, and mentor engineers in a fast-paced fintech environment.

You will shape scalable, high‑availability systems, oversee critical money-path reliability, and collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership on roadmaps.

Qualifications

• MS or BS/B.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 6–10 years of backend engineering experience with 2+ years in a tech lead role.
• Deep expertise in Java (J2EE/Spring Boot) and/or Node.js at scale.
• Strong proficiency in Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA, REST API design.
• Expert-level knowledge of MySQL and distributed data stores (Redis, Cassandra, Aerospike, Elasticsearch).
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, message-driven architecture, and large-scale data processing.
• Proven track record of building high-traffic, fault-tolerant financial or transactional systems.
• Strong system design skills—capacity planning, failure modes, idempotency, saga/compensation patterns.
• Excellent data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve technical architecture for Gold services — scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Lead design and implementation of high-availability, high-volume transactional systems.
• Own end-to-end delivery of major initiatives — breakdown, estimation, risk management, and production rollout.
• Set engineering standards: code quality, review practices, testing strategy, observability, and incident response.
• Guide the team on Kafka event design, scheduler orchestration, CDC pipelines, and data consistency patterns.
• Mentor and grow engineers (SSE and below); conduct reviews, pair on complex problems, and build team capability.
• Contribute hands-on to critical modules; unblock the team on complex bugs, performance issues, and production fires.
• Represent Gold Tech in architecture reviews, tech debt prioritization, and platform-wide initiatives.

Skills

Java/Spring Boot

Node.js

System design

Leadership

REST API

Data structures/algorithms

Education

MS or BS/B.Tech in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Storm

Debezium

AWS

Prometheus

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

We are looking for a Tech Lead for the Gold Tech team to drive technical direction, architecture, and delivery of Paytm Digital Gold — a high‑scale bullion platform serving consumer and merchant use cases at lakhs+ rpm. This role combines hands‑on engineering with technical leadership — you will architect solutions, unblock the team, own critical money‑path reliability, and partner with Product and Engineering leadership on roadmap and execution. We are building reliable, high‑availability financial products

and need a Tech Lead who can own modules end‑to‑end, raise the bar on code quality, and mentor junior engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve technical architecture for Gold services — scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Lead design and implementation of high‑availability, high‑volume transactional systems.
• Own end‑to‑end delivery of major initiatives — breakdown, estimation, risk management, and production rollout.
• Set engineering standards: code quality, review practices, testing strategy, observability, and incident response.
• Guide the team on Kafka event design, scheduler orchestration, CDC pipelines, and data consistency patterns.
• Mentor and grow engineers (SSE and below); conduct reviews, pair on complex problems, and build team capability.
• Contribute hands‑on to critical modules; unblock the team on complex bugs, performance issues, and production fires.
• Represent Gold Tech in architecture reviews, tech debt prioritization, and platform‑wide initiatives.

Skills Required

• MS or BS/B.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent experience from a top college.
• 6–10 years of backend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a tech lead / senior IC role.
• Deep expertise in Java (J2EE/Spring Boot) and/or Node.js at scale; ability to lead across a polyglot stack.
• Strong proficiency in Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA, REST API design, and/or Node.js/Express production systems.
• Expert‑level knowledge of MySQL and distributed data stores (Redis, Cassandra, Aerospike, Elasticsearch).
• Hands‑on experience with Kafka, message‑driven architecture, and Apache Storm or similar large‑scale data processing.
• Proven track record of building high‑traffic, fault‑tolerant financial or transactional systems.
• Strong system design skills — capacity planning, failure modes, idempotency, saga/compensation patterns, caching strategy.
• Excellent data structures, algorithms, and problem‑solving skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management — can align Product, Engineering, and Operations.
• Customer‑focused, thrives in ambiguity, leads by example in a fast‑paced, high‑ownership environment.

Good to Have

• Experience leading teams in fintech, payments, wealth management, or bullion domains.
• Familiarity with Quartz scheduling, Spring State Machine, Resilience4j, Debezium CDC.
• Experience with multi‑tenant / partner‑gold architectures and external API integrations.
• Exposure to AWS, observability (Datadog/Prometheus/Grafana), and CI/CD at org scale.
• Experience driving legacy modernization (e.g., Node.js service evolution alongside Java microservices).

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!