
Role: Data Engineer
Company: PayU
Location: Bangalore/ Mumbai
Experience : 2-5 yrs
About Company:
PayU is the payments and fintech business of Prosus, a global consumer internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world. Operating and investing globally in markets with long-term growth potential, Prosus builds leading consumer internet companies that empower people and enrich communities.
The leading online payment service provider in 36 countries, PayU is dedicated to creating a fast, simple and efficient payment process for merchants and buyers. Focused on empowering people through financial services and creating a world without financial borders where everyone can prosper, PayU is one of the biggest investors in the fintech space globally, with investments totalling $700 million- to date. PayU also specializes in credit products and services for emerging markets across the globe. We are dedicated to removing risks to merchants, allowing consumers to use credit in ways that suit them and enabling a greater number of global citizens to access credit services.
Our local operations in Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia enable us to combine the expertise of high growth companies with our own unique local knowledge and technology to ensure that our customers have access to the best financial services.
India is the biggest market for PayU globally and the company has already invested $400 million in this region in last 4 years. PayU in its next phase of growth is developing a full regional fintech ecosystem providing multiple digital financial services in one integrated experience. We are going to do this through 3 mechanisms: build, co-build/partner; select strategic investments.
PayU supports over 350,000+ merchants and millions of consumers making payments online with over 250 payment methods and 1,800+ payment specialists. The markets in which PayU operates represent a potential consumer base of nearly 2.3 billion people and a huge growth potential for merchants.
Job responsibilities:
- Design infrastructure for data, especially for but not limited to consumption in machine learning applications
- Define database architecture needed to combine and link data, and ensure integrity across different sources
- Ensure performance of data systems for machine learning to customer-facing web and mobile applications using cutting-edge open source frameworks, to highly available RESTful services, to back-end Java based systems
- Work with large, fast, complex data sets to solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems, applying advanced data handling techniques if needed
- Build data pipelines, includes implementing, testing, and maintaining infrastructural components related to the data engineering stack.
- Work closely with Data Engineers, ML Engineers and SREs to gather data engineering requirements to prototype, develop, validate and deploy data science and machine learning solutions
Requirements to be successful in this role:
- Strong knowledge and experience in Python, Pandas, Data wrangling, ETL processes, statistics, data visualisation, Data Modelling and Informatica.
- Strong experience with scalable compute solutions such as in Kafka, Snowflake
- Strong experience with workflow management libraries and tools such as Airflow, AWS Step Functions etc.
- Strong experience with data engineering practices (i.e. data ingestion pipelines and ETL)
- A good understanding of machine learning methods, algorithms, pipelines, testing practices and frameworks
- Preferred) MEng/MSc/PhD degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or equivalent (preference: DS/ AI)
- Experience with designing and implementing tools that support sharing of data, code, practices across organizations at scale

Similar jobs
What You’ll Be Doing:
● Own the architecture and roadmap for scalable, secure, and high-quality data pipelines
and platforms.
● Lead and mentor a team of data engineers while establishing engineering best practices,
coding standards, and governance models.
● Design and implement high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines using modern Big Data
technologies for diverse internal and external data sources.
● Drive modernization initiatives including re-architecting legacy systems to support
next-generation data products, ML workloads, and analytics use cases.
● Partner with Product, Engineering, and Business teams to translate requirements into
robust technical solutions that align with organizational priorities.
● Champion data quality, monitoring, metadata management, and observability across the
ecosystem.
● Lead initiatives to improve cost efficiency, data delivery SLAs, automation, and
infrastructure scalability.
● Provide technical leadership on data modeling, orchestration, CI/CD for data workflows,
and cloud-based architecture improvements.
Qualifications:
● Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant field.
● 8+ years of relevant and recent experience in a Data Engineer role.
● 5+ years recent experience with Apache Spark and solid understanding of the
fundamentals.
● Deep understanding of Big Data concepts and distributed systems.
● Demonstrated ability to design, review, and optimize scalable data architectures across
ingestion.
● Strong coding skills with Scala, Python and the ability to quickly switch between them with
ease.
● Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with a variety of relational
databases such as Postgres and/or MySQL.
● Cloud Experience with DataBricks.
● Strong understanding of Delta Lake architecture and working with Parquet, JSON, CSV,
and similar formats.
● Experience establishing and enforcing data engineering best practices, including CI/CD
for data, orchestration and automation, and metadata management.
● Comfortable working in an Agile environment
● Machine Learning knowledge is a plus.
● Demonstrated ability to operate independently, take ownership of deliverables, and lead
technical decisions.
● Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
● Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic
environment.
REPORTING: This position will report to Sr. Technical Manager or Director of Engineering as
assigned by Management.
EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full-Time, Permanent
SHIFT TIMINGS: 10:00 AM - 07:00 PM IST
Required Skills
1) Good experience in Angular Latest Versions
2) Hand on Node.JS./Express JS
3) Database : MYSQL/MongoDB
4) Experience in Java Script, Typescript.
5)Good experience in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Jquery
6) Experience working in an Agile environment.
7) Good communication skills.
● Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
● Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
● Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)
● Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript as well as HTML and CSS
● Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
● Working knowledge and integration knowledge with RESTful APIs
● Knowlegde of websockets implementation is a must.
● Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
● Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
● Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.
● Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements.
● A knack for benchmarking and optimization
● Familiarity with code versioning tools {such as Git}
● Added advantages if you have working knowledge of AWS
- Designing and Developing web applications using Laravel 7 / 8
- Closely working front-end and back-end developers on projects.
- Hands on experience with handing MySQL queries
- Excellent logical and analytics skill
- Experience on handling and developing API end points
- Experience with Payment Gateway integrations and implementations
- Knowledge on any Frontend Framework - Bootstrap / Foundation / Backbone (Secondary skills, added advantage)
- Follow standard coding structure with Security first approach to avoid vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection and XSS
- Sound knowledge on integrating multiple payment gateway
Job Description
- Design & implement backend APIs
- Mentor junior developers technically.
- Actively work to reduce tech debt in the backend
- Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
- Tech stack - Java, AWS etc.
Eligibility
- 2-8 years of product company experience
- Advanced understanding of AWS stack
- Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.
- Need to develop the new script using Perl & Python
- Need to analyse the existing script and do new changes
- Need to interact with QA team, Deployment team
- Need to interact with in-house and external customers
- Need to interact with internal team members for integrated development
- Need to have good communication skills within the team members
Skills required:
- Need to have experience in developing projects using PERL and Python
- Familiarity in Unix/Linux development environments and tools including
- scripting and process management
- Need to have experience in database(Mysql) concepts
- Need to have a experience in Elastic Search
- Have a knowledge in Git,Svn commands
- Need to have experience in implementing OOPS concepts
- Need to have a experience in XML functionality (read,create.,etc)
- Have a knowledge in creating a csv,xlsx files, json format
- Need to have a experience in PDF Functionality & FTP,SFTP Modules
- Need experience in unit testing
- Develop best practices to ensure coding efficiency and quality
- Experience in test driven development and Agile methodologies
Preference of Educational background:
- B.E
Preference of Professional background:
- Experience in handling modules
- Experience in PERL,Python,Mysql,Linux,Elastic search,Xml,PDF,FTP functionality
Responsibilities:
- User-centric development of high-quality code that is maintainable and testable
- Utilize flutter to design and build complex applications
- Create custom packages in flutter by employing the functionalities as well as the APIs accessible in native Android and iOS
- Create and translate the designs as well as the wireframes into high-quality responsive UI code
- Design and develop architecture as well as testable, viable, and functional software by using MVC & MVVM to implement new features and meet product requirement
- Determine and solve any issues present in the system and propose your ideas in terms of new features and improvements needed in the new system
- Propose ideal Data Structure keeping in mind space and time complexity
- Stay up-to-date with the industry trends and best practices
- Keep the Scrum Team up-to-date by updating and managing the code and the project on Git
- Make sure security rules are being followed while building the application
- Ensure, through validation of the cloud system, that new changes are not affecting the security of the backend server
- Maintain software throughout product lifecycle including design, development, verification & bug fixes
- Coordinate with the respective teams for bug fixing and ensure we have a stable product
- Be part of the core team developing new app features while focusing on improving our existing code
- Self-starter with excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):
- At least 2 years of experience in mobile app development
- Experience with Flutter Development (or any other alternative like Kotlin, React native, Xamarin, Cordova, ionic etc) is a must
- Experience shipping two or more Android and/or iOS based applications utilizing hybrid technologies (flutter, ionic framework, react native, Xamarin)
- While focus is on hybrid, a solid native coding background in either Android or iOS is a must
- Experience in developing cross-platform mobile applications for Android (Java/Kotlin) iOS (Swift/Objective C), or other cross platform frameworks like React native or Xamarin
- Experience with Futter. This should include from making responsive UIs to efficiently query data and also manage states in an optimized manner
- Experience working in an Agile Environment
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience)
- Passionate about creating and refining great mobile user experiences
- Knowledge of JavaScript, React.js is a plus
- Knowledge of web technologies, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript is a plus
- Knowledge of mobile application security best practices is a plus
- Programming experience in Microsoft Stack (Strong C#, ASP.NET Web forms, Web API, SQL Server) is a plus
- Expertise in deploying hybrid applications across iOS App Store and Google Play App Store is a plus











