Backend - Software Engineer
Actively Hiring
Full-time $109k - $153k Posted about 1 month ago
About the role
- check_circle You will design, build, scale, code, and optimize systems that operate at massive transaction volumes (120 million transactions per day).
- check_circle You’ll go deep into systems thinking, microservices, caching, messaging, and scalable data architectures.
- check_circle You’ll also be encouraged to actively use AI tools (like GPT and others) in your development workflow to code faster, smarter, and better.
What We're Looking For:
- 1+ years of backend development experience in Java.
- Real-world experience with high-TPS, large-scale systems (or a burning desire to master them).
- Hands-on with Kafka, Redis, RDBMS, and distributed microservices architectures.
- Exposure to AWS Cloud Infrastructure and cloud-native patterns.
- Passion for scaling, performance tuning, and system optimizations.
- Someone who loves to experiment with AI tools (like GPT, Copilot, OpenHands) for code generation, optimization, or workflow improvement.
- You love writing clean, efficient, production-ready code — but you are even more obsessed with system performance, uptime, and user impact.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Why You Should Join Us:
- check_circle You’ll build at true scale systems handling millions of transactions per day, sub-100ms latencies, and five 9s availability.
- check_circle You’ll work in a team that is serious about engineering, no fluff, just deep tech, deep impact.
- check_circle You’ll be encouraged to use AI tools daily — coding, debugging, testing — and even invent new ways of using AI in software development.
- check_circle You’ll work alongside engineers who love tech deeply, and where innovation is the default expectation.
- check_circle Paytm offers you a career — not just a job — to become a next-gen tech leader.
About US:
Paytm is India’s largest digital payments and financial services platform, leading the mobile QR revolution. We power millions of businesses and individuals, and we’re building scalable, resilient systems to serve half a billion Indians and beyond. Here at Paytm, technology isn't just about keeping up, it's about building the future. We believe the next generation of engineers must not only scale systems to billions but also leverage AI and GPT tools to accelerate innovation.
Tags & Focus Areas
Backend Engineer Dev Aws Java Node
About Paytm
Paytm is looking for hands-on technologists with 6 to 8 years of experience, who will be responsible for architecting & designing new age mobile & web 3.0 products at Paytm.