
About Paytm
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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Requirements
- Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, Javascript (React.js), XML, jQuery)
- Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
- 8 - 10 years of overall experience including 3+ years in mentoring & leading a high-performance team
- Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
- Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX design
- Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
- Have a strong understanding and appreciation for design first thinking and quality of user experience
- Be well-versed in sprint estimation, planning, tracking, change management and delivery, with prior experience of Agile-based development environments
- Strong command on vanilla/core JavaScript
- Knowledge of UI optimisations and performance.
- Deeper understanding of Chrome Dev Tools. Should understand the nuances of the timeline for perf monitoring.
- Deeper understanding of network layer, HTTP, HTTPS, cookies, local storage.
- Good communication skills, good visual design sense, in-depth experience in developing web-based applications.
- Strong technical aptitude and a good knowledge of CSS fundamentals
ABOUT Company
We are changing the way cataloging is done across the Globe. Our vision is to empower the smallest of sellers, situated in the farthest of corners, to create superior product images and videos, without the need for any external professional help. Imagine 30M+ merchants shooting Product Images or Videos using their Smartphones, and then choosing Filters for Amazon, Asos, Airbnb, Doordash, etc to instantly compose High-Quality "tuned-in" product visuals, instantly. They have built the world’s leading image editing AI software, to capture and process beautiful product images for online selling. We are also fortunate and proud to be backed by the biggest names in the investment community including the likes of Accel Partners, Angellist and prominent Founders and Internet company operators, who believe that there is an intelligent and efficient way of doing Digital Production than how the world operates currently.
About the Role
We are looking for builders of the 1st order. You should get a rush from creating things from scratch and take pleasure in watching users try to tear them apart through sheer volume and strange, unthinkable use cases. And when it breaks, you are to — make everything smooth, secure, and stronger than ever! If you inhale resilience and exhale code, apply now!
You will work closely with Product and AI Research to build features, tools, and scalable architecture As with any startup, responsibilities will vary frequently. You’ll wear multiple hats, and work across many different technologies, might talk to clients directly, and have an active say in the direction of our product. We want someone who is passionate about this type of environment!
What you’ll do
- You will manage a team of Software Engineers distributed under Tech Leads.
- You will collaborate closely with other engineers of the team and lend your help in your areas of expertise.
- You will manage a scale of Millions of Images processed everyday through Computer Vision algorithms running in the backend.
- Build microservices to support new functionality.
- Bind our front and back end services together.
- Deliver maintainable and high-quality code
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth.
We are looking for:
- BTech degree in Computer Science, Engineering, from tier-1 engineering institutes
- 6+ years of Software Development experience in a product development setup
- 3+ years of experience leading a team of Software engineers (strict criteria), preferably in a product based startup environment
- Extremely self-motivated and autonomous.
- Strong data structures and algorithm skills
- Designing database schemas and architecture
- Strong knowledge of Microservices architectural patterns
- Deep experience of building systems at a massive scale
Strong preference for IIT /NIT/ BITS passouts passing out between 2014 and 2015 and experience in major tech product companies (unicorns, well funded startups of good repute - series A and above funded).
Note*: 6 years or above experience is mandatory
Position Overview:
The Engineering Manager will work closely with the management and customers and partners globally. He/She will report to the VP - Engineering. He/She will be responsible for shaping the product and strategizing its delivery around when and how it will be done so.
The ideal candidate should have prior experience as Engineering Manager in a start-up or Product company, developing an Enterprise SAAS product.
Responsibilities:
●Lead Product Development, QA and Documentation for multiple client Products
●Deliver Engineering Product Releases and Patches
●Provide work break-down and be responsible for all Engineering Team deliverables
●Interact with team members and ensure timely and successful delivery of each sprint iteration
●Provide technical guidance, coaching and mentoring to the Engineering Team
●Be responsible for tools and processes for all Engineering activities
●Work with Product Management and help shape the product roadmap
●Work with Services Organization and set the right expectations regarding the product roadmap, delivery of enhancements and patches
●Define and manage quarterly goals for Engineering Team
●Manage engineering budget, incentive programs and team-building activities
●Hire and manage Product Development, QA and Documentation Team members
The Ideal Candidate:
●Should have completed a 4-year Engineering degree in Computer Science (preferably) or an advanced degree in a similar stream
●Should have 10-12 years of experience with at least 2-3 years as an Engineering Manager
●Must have experience with Containerization, Docker, Kubernetes
●Should have designed and delivered:
- Open Source based Enterprise Software
- Software based on Java, Angular JS, ReactJS, Python, no-SQL databases etc
- Solutions in the Cloud (AWS or Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP))
●Delivered multiple releases of products using Agile Development
●Delivered Artifacts like Design/Test-Plan/Documentation-Plan documents
●Possess Team Management skills:
- Led Product Development Teams involving UI, Middle-Tier and Database developers, QA and Documentation Teams
- Delivered performance reviews, and improvement plans to team members
Desired Skills:
●Experience having worked at a startup or product development company is an advantage
Location: Bangalore
Function: Software Engineering → Backend Development
We are looking for an extraordinary and dynamic Director of Engineering to be part of its Engineering team in Bangalore. You must have a good record of architecting scalable solutions, hiring and mentoring talented teams and working with product managers to build great products. You must be highly analytical and a good problem solver. You will be part of a highly energetic and innovative team that believes nothing is impossible with some creativity and hard work.
Responsibilities:
- Own the overall solution design and implementation for backend systems. This includes requirement analysis, scope discussion, design, architecture, implementation, delivery and resolving production issues related to engineering.
- Owner of the technology roadmap of our products from core back end engineering perspective.
- Ability to guide the team in debugging production issues and write best-of- the breed code.
- Drive engineering excellence (defects, productivity through automation, performance of products etc) through clearly defined metrics.
- Stay current with the latest tools, technology ideas and methodologies; share knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to key decision makers.
- Hiring, mentoring, and retaining a very talented team.
Requirements:
- 12 - 20 years of strong experience in product development.
- Strong experience in building data engineering (no SQL DBs, HDFS, Kafka, cassandra, Elasticsearch, Spark etc) intensive backend.
- Excellent track record of designing and delivering System architecture, implementation and deployment of successful solutions in a custome facing role
- Strong in problem solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to influence decision making through data and be metric driven.
- Strong understanding of non-functional requirements like security, test automation etc.
- Fluency in Java, Spring, Hibernate, J2EE, REST Services.
- Ability to hire, mentor and retain best-of-the-breed engineers.
- Exposure to Agile development methodologies.
- Ability to collaborate across teams and strong interpersonal skills.
- SAAS experience a plus.
12+ years of management experience in software engineering.
5+ years of experience managing engineering teams
Strong experience in delivering user interfacing and business critical applications that are scaleable and highly available.
Solid Experience working with Java and related technologies
Experience working with Web and UI technologies (Javascript libraries like React) is a big plus
Experience with building and running microservices in a polyglot environment.
A strong understanding of database design, and experience with SQL databases and NoSQL databases like Mongo
Good knowledge of Cloud native and related technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with and a thorough understanding of event stream processing and search solutions (Kafka, Elastic etc)
Experience with designing and developing hybrid mobile react-native is desirable.
Experience working on projects using Agile methodologies like Scrum
Ability to design large-scale applications with excellent run-time characteristics such as low latency, fault- tolerance and availability
Ability to review designs and code, provide actionable feedback, and the detail orientation to follow-up on all technical topics
Ability to communicate with large cross-functional teams about various engineering topics such as system architecture, detailed design, APIs, project schedules etc.
Ability to make the right trade-off choices when dealing with functional complexity, conflicting priorities and
aggressive schedules
Desired skills & experience :
Bachelor's/ Master's Degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent
Represent the team and remove hurdles to enable each team member to operate at the highest level of efficiency and productivity
Ability to hire, mentor and manage the performance of a large team.
Ability to communicate with senior executives and business stakeholders.
A learning attitude to continuously improve the self, team and the organization
Ability to work under pressure and manage difficult situations in a fast-paced work environment.
• 2 - 5 years of experience building React and/or Mobile Applications
• 5-8 years working with microservices, API servers, databases, cloud-native development, observability,
alerting, and monitoring
• Deep exposure to cloud services, preferably Azure
• Preferably worked in the Finance/Retail domain or other similar domains with complex business
requirements.
• Hands-on skills combined with leadership qualities to guide teams.
Location – Bangalore, Mumbai, Gurgaon
Functional / Technical Skills:
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals
o OSI Stack, DNS, TCP protocols
o Browser rendering and various stages of execution
• Good understanding of RESTful APIs, GraphQL and Web Sockets
• Ability to debug and profile Web/Mobile applications with Chrome DevTools or Native profilers
• Strong understanding of Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance and Resiliency. Exposure to setting up
and managing Chaos is a plus.
• Exposure to Domain Driven Design (DDD), SOLID principles, and Data Modelling on various RDBMS,
NoSQL databases.
• Ability to define and document performance goals, SLAs, and volumetrics. Creating a framework for
measuring and validating the goals. Work with teams to implement and meet them.
• Create automation scripts to measure performance. Making this part of the CI/CD process.
• Good understanding of CNCF projects with a specific focus on Observability, Monitoring, Tracing,
Sidecars, Kubernetes
• Tuning of Cloud-native deployments with a focus on Cost Optimization.
• Participate in architecture reviews to identify potential issues, and bottlenecks and provide early guidance.
• Deep knowledge of at least 2 different programming languages and runtimes. Any two of Ruby, Python,
Swift, Go, Rust, C#, Dart, Kotlin, Java, Haskell, OCaml
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• A mindset to constantly learn new things and challenge the Status Quo.
● B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
● 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in
management role.
● Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.
● Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologies
● Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership
● Provide thought leadership to setup and manage processes.
● Ability to work in a very agile, fast-paced environment with changing requirements.
● Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
● A good understanding of Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang.
● Hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc. is a big plus.
● Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
● Ability to build a product end-to-end with the help of multiple engineering teams
What you will do:
● Managing the performance and career development of a team of 20+ full stack engineers along with junior managers, and owning end to end products of an org business line that require design, architecture, and reviews.
● Participating with senior management in developing a long-term technology roadmap.
● Being a role model and professional coach for engineers with a strong bias for action and focus on craftsmanship.
● Working with peers across teams to support and leverage a shared technical stack.
● Managing teams to scale distributed applications, making architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, reviewing code, and delivering with speed and quality.
● Developing multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7.
● Producing high-quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed and checked in regularly for continuous integration
● Being a strong proponent of setting up right processes that make engineering deliverables more efficient and resilient.
● Leading and participating with your peers in raising the hiring bar for the overall engineering team
● Understanding the product and project management space with Agile methodologies.
What you need to have:
● B tech, BE in computer science or equivalent experience
● 10+ years of programming experience in architecture, performance, scale
● 4+ years of engineering management
● Experience across the product development SDLC
● Exposure working in any Cloud Platform, i.e. Azure, AWS or GCP.
● Understanding of Microservices based architecture
● Excellent communication skills,
● Strong decision-making skills, metric-driven operations, and the ability to motivate and maximize productivity in a fast-paced environment
About client:
The 2018 Forbes Indonesia Choice Award winner and Galen Growth’s 2018 Most
Innovative HealthTech Startup in Asia. Ours is a secure health-tech platform with a mission to
simplifying access to healthcare by connecting millions of patients with licensed doctors, insurance, labs, and pharmacies in one mobile application.
Key Job Responsibilities:
- He/She is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technical
strategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology and
business roadmap.
- He /she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, startup-like environment.
- Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple
business plans and technologies.
- Work closely with Product, Design, and Marketing to conceive features, plan projects, and
build roadmaps
- Prior experience with scalable Architecture managing team of minimum 5 engineers and
coaching, mentoring while maintaining a role with code development.
- Proven history of contributing to product strategy and shipping products with multi-functional
teams.
- Highly involved in recruitment while building team also leading app development for both
platforms
- Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics
and integrity.
Minimum Qualification:
- Total of 10+ years experience
- Experince in performance appraisal and people management.
- Hands-on working on Java ( {Language understanding - Java 8, Lambdas, Collections,
popular frameworks & libraries}, JVM, GC tuning, performance tuning)
- Worked on REST frameworks/libraries like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, REST
Express etc
- Worked on Relational data stores viz. MySQL, Oracle, or Postgres
- Worked on Non-relational data stores viz. Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB, etc
- Worked on caching infra viz. Redis, Memcached, Aerospike, Riak, etc
- Worked on Queueing infra viz. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc
Questions
- How many years of Techno-managerial experience do you have?
- How many performance review cycles did you do?
- What is the size of the team that you've managed?
● Mentor and lead more junior developers.
● Take responsibility for the quality of the code produced by you and the team.
● Operate across our evolving technology stack - Java, React, SQL, and more.
● Take responsibility for all aspects of software engineering, from design to implementation, QA, and maintenance.
● Touch code at every level – from the UI, through backend microservices and down to the database.
● Collaborate closely with Product, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Analytics as well as other functional teams to define feature specifications and develop high-quality deliverables for our customers.
● Work alongside other engineering groups located around the world (US, Canada, UK, etc.).

