Backend Developer

Responsibilities:

• Lead simultaneous development for multiple business verticals.
• Design & develop highly scalable, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Ensure that exceptional standards are maintained in all aspects of engineering.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to learn and share best practices.
• Take ownership of technical performance metrics and strive actively to improve them.
• Mentors junior members of the team and contributes to code reviews.

Requirements:

• A passion to solve tough engineering/data challenges.
• Be well versed with cloud computing platforms AWS/GCP
• Experience with SQL technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience working with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• Excellent Programming skills in Python/Java/GoLang
• Big Data streaming services (Kinesis, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Distributed cache systems(Redis, Memcache)
• Advanced data solutions(BigQuery, RedShift, DynamoDB, Cassandra)
• Automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure orchestration(Docker/Kubernetes/Nginx)
• Cloud-native tech like Lambda, ASG, CDN, ELB, SNS/SQS, S3 Route53 SES

Required Candidate profile

Job Description

Paytm is looking for hands-on technologists, who will be responsible for architecting & designing new age mobile & web 3.0 products at Paytm.

Key Responsibilities

 Incumbent will be architecting our futuristic mobile & web 3.0 products and choose the best

technologies, components and subsystems on different server side tech.

 Driving innovations in the product constantly to remain ahead of the curve.

 Serve as a thought leader and mentor on technical, architectural, design and related issues.

 Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions.

 Balance short-term versus long-term actions, strategic versus tactical requirements, while

continuing to move forward towards the strategic vision.

 Collaborate with cross functional teams to solve complex problems and building products

spanning across multiple teams to deliver end-to-end products & features.

 Estimates efforts, identify risks, devises and meets project schedules.

 Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise with-in team and

cross-team.

 Mentor / coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership to

them. 

Skills required

 MS or BS/B.Tech in computer science or equivalent experience from top college.

 3+ years of strong software design/development experience in building massively large scale

distributed internet systems and products.

 Hands-on experience in Advanced Java/ Node.JS/other backend JavaScript

frameworks, MySQL/NoSQL, golang, etc.

 Excellent data structure & algorithm and problem solving skills.

 Experience and knowledge of open source tools & frameworks, broader cutting edge

technologies around server side development.

 Should be an active contributor to developer communities like Stackoverflow, Topcoder, Github,

Google Developer Groups (GDGs).

 Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.

 Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-

energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.

 Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in fluid environment.

• 3-5 Years of experience in Backend Development.
• Must have experience in Python (FLASK framework).
• Have Deep understanding of how RESTful APIs work.
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns that can work at scale.
• Sound knowledge of NoSQL/SQL Databases (Mongo DB preferred).
• Strong experience with at-Cloud technology, preferably AWS or GCP or Azure.
• Core experience in developing complex backend systems.
• Communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Passionate about application scalability, availability, reliability, and security.