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About Us:
Paytm is India’s leading digital payments and financial services company, which is focused on driving consumers and merchants to its platform by offering them a variety of payment use cases. Paytm provides consumers with services like utility payments and money transfers, while empowering them to pay via Paytm Payment Instruments (PPI) like Paytm Wallet, Paytm UPI, Paytm Payments Bank Netbanking, Paytm FASTag and Paytm Postpaid - Buy Now, Pay Later. To merchants, Paytm offers acquiring devices like Soundbox, EDC, QR and Payment Gateway where payment aggregation is done through PPI and also other banks’ financial instruments. To further enhance merchants’ business, Paytm offers merchants commerce services through advertising and Paytm Mini app store. Operating on this platform leverage, the company then offers credit services such as merchant loans, personal loans and BNPL, sourced by its financial partners.
Why join us:
- Because you get an opportunity to make a difference, and have a great time doing that.
- You are challenged and encouraged here to do stuff that is meaningful for you and for those we serve.
- You should work with us if you think seriously about what technology can do for people.
- We are successful, and our successes are rooted in our people's collective energy and unwavering focus on the customer, and that's how it will always be.
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Job Summary
We are looking for a skilled Server Engineer with hands-on experience in Dell and
HPE servers, Linux operating systems, and networking fundamentals. The ideal
candidate will be responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, and optimizing server
infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance.
Key Responsibilities
Install, configure, and maintain Dell (PowerEdge) and HPE (ProLiant)
servers
Manage and administer Linux-based systems (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, etc.)
Monitor system performance, availability, and security
Troubleshoot hardware, OS, and network-related issues
Perform regular system updates, patches, and backups
Configure and manage RAID, storage, and server components
Work with tools like iDRAC (Dell) and iLO (HPE) for server management
Collaborate with networking teams for connectivity, firewall, and routing issues
Maintain documentation for configurations, processes, and troubleshooting
steps
Ensure compliance with security policies and best practices
Travel to client/data center locations as required for deployment,
maintenance, and troubleshooting
Required Skills & Qualifications
3–4 years of hands-on experience in server administration
Strong experience with Dell and/or HPE servers
Good knowledge of Linux system administration
Understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs,
routing)
Experience with server monitoring tools and logs
Familiarity with virtualization (VMware / KVM) is a plus
Basic scripting knowledge (Bash, Python) is an advantage
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
Willingness to travel based on project requirements
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or B.Tech
(or equivalent)
Certifications like RHCSA/RHCE, CompTIA Linux+, or equivalent
Experience with data center operations
Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) is a plus
Soft Skills
Good communication and documentation skills
Ability to work independently and in a team
Proactive and detail-oriented
Work Location: In person
Key Responsibilities
Develop and maintain scalable applications using MongoDB, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Node.js, Express.js, React.js, and TypeScript.
Design, develop, and optimize RESTful APIs and GraphQL services.
Lead and mentor a team of developers, ensuring best coding practices, performance, and security.
Collaborate with UI/UX designers, product managers, and DevOps teams to streamline development.
Contribute to AI-powered application development (if experienced in AI/ML).
Required Skills & Qualifications
✅ 2.5+ years of experience in MERN stack development.
✅ Expertise in React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, and Express.js.
✅ Strong database management skills with MongoDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
✅ Proven experience in leading development teams and conducting code reviews.
✅ Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
✅ Bonus: Experience in AI/ML-based applications is a plus.
Why Join Us?
🚀 Exciting Projects – Work on AI-driven and scalable web solutions.
🤝 Leadership Opportunity – Lead and mentor a talented team of developers.
💰 Competitive Compensation – ₹50K - ₹60K per month.
🏡 Dynamic Work Environment – Collaborative, innovation-driven workplace.
Job Details
- Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
- Industry: SAAS
- Function – Information Technology
- Experience Required: 5-8 years
- Working Days: 6 days a week, (5 days-in-office, Saturdays WFH)
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Job Location: Bangalore
- CTC Range: Best in Industry
Preferred Skills: AWS, NodeJS, RESTful APIs, NoSQL
Criteria
· Minimum 5+ years in backend engineering with strong system design expertise
· Experience building scalable systems from scratch
· Expert-level proficiency in Node.js
· Deep understanding of distributed systems
· Strong NoSQL design skills
· Hands-on AWS cloud experience
· Proven leadership and mentoring capability
· Preferred candidates from SAAS/Software/IT Services based startups or scaleup companies
Job Description
The Role:
What You’ll Build:
1. System Architecture & Design
● Architect highly scalable backend systems from the ground up
● Define technology choices: frameworks, databases, queues, caching layers
● Evaluate microservices vs monoliths based on product stage
● Design REST, GraphQL, and real-time WebSocket APIs
● Build event-driven systems for asynchronous processing
● Architect multi-tenant systems with strict data isolation
● Maintain architectural documentation and technical specs
2. Core Backend Services
● Build high-performance APIs for 3D content, XR experiences, analytics, and user interactions
● Create 3D asset processing pipelines for uploads, conversions, and optimization
● Develop distributed job workers for CPU/GPU-intensive tasks
● Build authentication/authorization systems (RBAC)
● Implement billing, subscription, and usage metering
● Build secure webhook systems and third-party integration APIs
● Create real-time collaboration features via WebSockets/SSE
3. Data Architecture & Databases
● Design scalable schemas for 3D metadata, XR sessions, and analytics
● Model complex product catalogs with variants and hierarchies
● Implement Redis-based caching strategies
● Build search and indexing systems (Elasticsearch/Algolia)
● Architect ETL pipelines and data warehouses
● Implement sharding, partitioning, and replication strategies
● Design backup, restore, and disaster recovery workflows
4. Scalability & Performance
● Build systems designed for 10x–100x traffic growth
● Implement load balancing, autoscaling, and distributed processing
● Optimize API response times and database performance
● Implement global CDN delivery for heavy 3D assets
● Build rate limiting, throttling, and backpressure mechanisms
● Optimize storage and retrieval of large 3D files
● Profile and improve CPU, memory, and network performance
5. Infrastructure & DevOps
● Architect AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ElastiCache)
● Build CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments and rollbacks
● Use IaC tools (Terraform/CloudFormation) for infra provisioning
● Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
● Use Docker + Kubernetes for container orchestration
● Implement security best practices for data, networks, and secrets
● Define disaster recovery and business continuity plans
6. Integration & APIs
● Build integrations with Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento
● Design webhook systems for real-time events
● Build SDKs, client libraries, and developer tools
● Integrate payment gateways (Stripe, Razorpay)
● Implement SSO and OAuth for enterprise customers
● Define API versioning and lifecycle/deprecation strategies
7. Data Processing & Analytics
● Build analytics pipelines for engagement, conversions, and XR performance
● Process high-volume event streams at scale
● Build data warehouses for BI and reporting
● Develop real-time dashboards and insights systems
● Implement analytics export pipelines and platform integrations
● Enable A/B testing and experimentation frameworks
● Build personalization and recommendation systems
Technical Stack:
1. Backend Languages & Frameworks
● Primary: Node.js (Express, NestJS), Python (FastAPI, Django)
● Secondary: Go, Java/Kotlin (Spring)
● APIs: REST, GraphQL, gRPC
2. Databases & Storage
● SQL: PostgreSQL, MySQL
● NoSQL: MongoDB, DynamoDB
● Caching: Redis, Memcached
● Search: Elasticsearch, Algolia
● Storage/CDN: AWS S3, CloudFront
● Queues: Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS
3. Cloud & Infrastructure:
● Cloud: AWS (primary), GCP/Azure (nice to have)
● Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS
● Infrastructure: Terraform, CloudFormation
● CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI
● Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
4. Monitoring & Operations
● Monitoring: Datadog, New Relic, CloudWatch
● Logging: ELK Stack, CloudWatch Logs
● Error Tracking: Sentry, Rollbar
● APM tools
5. Security & Auth
● Auth: JWT, OAuth 2.0, SAML
● Secrets: AWS Secrets Manager, Vault
● Security: Encryption (at rest/in transit), TLS/SSL, IAM
What We’re Looking For:
1. Must-Haves
● 5+ years in backend engineering with strong system design expertise
● Experience building scalable systems from scratch
● Expert-level proficiency in at least one backend stack (Node, Python, Go, Java)
● Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices
● Strong SQL/NoSQL design skills with performance optimization
● Hands-on AWS cloud experience
● Ability to write high-quality production code daily
● Experience building and scaling RESTful APIs
● Strong understanding of caching, sharding, horizontal scaling
● Solid security and best-practice implementation experience
● Proven leadership and mentoring capability
2. Highly Desirable
● Experience with large file processing (3D, video, images)
● Background in SaaS, multi-tenancy, or e-commerce
● Experience with real-time systems (WebSockets, streams)
● Knowledge of ML/AI infrastructure
● Experience with HA systems, DR planning
● Familiarity with GraphQL, gRPC, event-driven systems
● DevOps/infrastructure engineering background
● Experience with XR/AR/VR backend systems
● Open-source contributions or technical writing
● Prior senior technical leadership experience
Technical Challenges You’ll Solve:
● Designing large-scale 3D asset processing pipelines
● Serving XR content globally with ultra-low latency
● Scaling from thousands to millions of daily requests
● Efficiently handling CPU/GPU-heavy workloads
● Architecting multi-tenancy with complete data isolation
● Managing billions of analytics events at scale
● Building future-proof APIs with backward compatibility
Why company:
● Architectural Ownership: Build foundational systems from scratch
● Deep Technical Work: Solve distributed systems and scaling challenges
● Hands-On Impact: Design and code mission-critical infrastructure
● Diverse Problems: APIs, infra, data, ML, XR, asset processing
● Massive Scale Opportunity: Build systems for exponential growth
● Modern Stack and best practices
● Product Impact: Your architecture directly powers millions of users
● Leadership Opportunity: Shape engineering culture and direction
● Learning Environment: Stay at the forefront of backend engineering
● Backed by AWS, Microsoft, Google
Location & Work Culture:
● Location: Bengaluru
● Schedule: 6 days a week, (5 days-in-office, Saturdays WFH)
● Culture: Builder mindset, strong ownership, technical excellence
● Team: Small, highly skilled backend and infra team
● Resources: AWS credits, latest tooling, learning budget
Key Responsibilities:
· Develop responsive and dynamic web applications using React.js (components, hooks, state management).
· Build and maintain backend APIs and services using Python (Flask/Django/FastAPI).
· Integrate frontend and backend systems with RESTful APIs.
· Work with databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL/NoSQL) for data modeling and query optimization.
Required Skills:
· 3–5 years of experience in full-stack development.
· Proficiency in React.js (functional components, hooks, Redux/Context API).
· Strong backend development experience with Python (Flask/Django/FastAPI).
· Solid understanding of REST APIs, JSON, and web security principles.
· Hands-on experience with SQL/NoSQL databases.
· Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker).
· Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
Budget : 18 – 24 LPA
If interested kindly share your resume at 82008 31681
Looking for folks with a hacker's mindset
We’re seeking a talented developer to help build our platform from the ground up. As a critical member of a dynamic and highly-motivated team, you will have to perform a full stack developers role. And will be responsible for designing & coding new functionality from scratch and maintaining or enhancing the current functionality.
Must haves
- Clear communication skills and a strong customer first attitude
- PHP expert with live project implementations in Laravel framework with MySQL database
- Write clean and well-designed & scalable code
- Maniacal about creating flawless & defect-free delivery
- Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product code and databases. Refactor or optimize existing code & database where needed
- Maintain a positive and healthy work environment within the team and have fun while doing it
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle right from requirements through till deployment
- Ability to learn and implement automated test tools
● 3+ years of experience with any cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)
● Must have Cloud application backend programming experience with any of the modern languages -Java/Node JA/GoLang/Rust.
Built a collaboration platform - messaging, voice, video - to be used in mobile apps, web etc.
● Good understanding of Docker and Kubernetes deployments
● Hands-on experience with one or more modern programming languages-Java/Node JS.GoLang/Python/Rust
● Good understanding of linux and associated tools.
- Produce detailed specifications
- Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure strong optimization and functionality
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
- Follow industry best practices
- Develop and deploy new features to facilitate related procedures and tools if necessary
Requirements :
- Expert in Python with at least one Python web framework (such as Flask, Django etc)
- Hands-on experience on building and leveraging third party Restful APIs
- Strong knowledge in algorithms and data structures
- Experience in any one of the python libraries such as Pandas, Scikit, Numpy, BeautifulSoup, and Scrapy
- Hands-on experience in Linux platform is a must
- Understanding of design principles behind a scalable application
- Knowledge in relational and NoSQL databases
- Exposure to Big Data and Real-time analytics is a plus
- Knowledge of Machine learning or Natural language processing in Python is a plus
- Experience using a public cloud such as Amazon AWS
- Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
- You will ensure that these components and the overall application are robust and easy to maintain.
- Have a good understanding of design and user experience principles.
- Open-minded, flexible, and willing to adapt to changing situations
- Ability to work independently as well as on a team and learn from colleagues
- High adaptability in a dynamic start-up environment
- Ensuring technologies are used efficiently, profitably, and securely. Evaluating and implementing new systems and infrastructure.
- Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving abilities with a tenacious commitment to finding the root cause of issues.
Qualifications :
- B. Tech/ B.E. /M. Tech/ BCA / MCA or a related technical discipline from reputed universities
Skills Required :
- Minimum 1+ years of experience in REST API development using python.
- Must have experience with anyone popular python frameworks like Django, Flask, and FastAPI Framework.
- Experience in designing and developing Restful Web services and Remote procedure calls.
- Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Knowledge of load testing and optimizing code for performance, security, and scalability
- Experience with Unit testing frameworks in Python
- Knowledge of modern authorization & authentication mechanisms.
- Able to create database schemes that represent and support business processes
- Knowledge of Version Control System & basics of CI/CD
- Write and maintain technical documentation
- Solid foundation in OOPS, Data structures, and Algorithms
- Knowledge of SDLC phases of project development.
- Experience in one or more No SQL Databases such as MongoDB, and Cassandra.
- Experience with event-based databases and programming
- Good experience in synchronous programming and thread-based programming.
- Experience with schedulers.
- Good to have knowledge of Linux shell commands.
- Good to have experience in Kubernetes & Docker
- Knowledge of any Cloud Service like GCP or AWS would be an added advantage
- Cares deeply about writing Quality, Testable & Modular code
- Good to have an understanding of NLP.
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2. Experience of front-end development (Angular, Bootstrap, CSS, jQuery)
3. Bug fixing in Django/Python/Web protocol
4. Having experience in development of heavy traffic web solution
5. Experience in working with LMS tools customization and integration will be added advantage Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent degree









