
Role: Senior Software Engineer – Backend Location: Bangalore / Gurgaon / Pune
About the Role
The successful backend engineer will work closely and collaboratively with cross functional teams during all phases of the software development lifecycle.
The incumbent should be competent to provide quick solutions to problems and taking a product or a product’s component through the entire life cycle, optimize the space / time complexity and improve on usability and reliability.
What you’ll be doing:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field from top notch colleges
- 4 + years of software development engineering.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles (including MVC).
- Good hands on in AWS scalable environment.
- Experience with different RDBMS and No SQL databases like MySQL, mongo, etc.
- Experience in designing scalable micro-services required.
- Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis.
- Proficiency in one language that emphasizes class abstractions (for e.g. Java) and have coded in it for at least 4 years.
- Excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and work with clients with great efficiency.
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills and the ability to express thoughts logically and succinctly.
- Open minded, Team builder, Good communicator and ability to lead and inspire teams.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment.
- Experience in dealing with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly
What are we looking for?
- 4 to 10 years of hands on design / development experience.
- Tech / M.Tech Computer Science or equivalent field from a premier institutes.
- Proficient in Java OR C/C++, data structures, algorithms and OO design / design patterns.
- Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.
- Technical depth in OS, computer architecture and OS internals.
- Ability to write scalable and maintainable code.
- Self-starter and goal-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Must be able to work cooperatively within a strong diverse technical community to expedite development tasks.
- Experience in Machine Learning is a plus
PS: Code review and team leading expereince is a pluys for Tech Lead role
What we offer
- Competitive salary and excellent benefits, in a diverse working environment with inspiring and hardworking colleagues
- A positive, get-things-done workplace.
- An inclusive environment that ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions.
- Ability to learn cutting edge concepts and innovation in an agile start-up environment with a global scale.
- A flexible working environment where you can drive your outcomes.
About us
At PayU, we are a global fintech investor and our vision is to build a world without financial borders where everyone can prosper. We give people in high growth markets the financial services and products they need to thrive. Our expertise in 18+ high-growth markets enables us to extend the reach of financial services. This drives everything we do, from investing in technology entrepreneurs to offering credit to underserved individuals, to helping merchants buy, sell, and operate online. Being part of Prosus, one of the largest technology investors in the world, gives us the presence and expertise to make a real impact. Find out more at www.payu.com
Our Commitment to Building A Diverse and Inclusive Workforce
As a global and multi-cultural organization with varied ethnicities thriving across locations, we realize that our responsibility towards fulfilling the D&I commitment is huge. Therefore, we continuously strive to create a diverse, inclusive, and safe environment, for all our people, communities, and customers. Our leaders are committed to create an inclusive work culture which enables transparency, flexibility, and unbiased attention to every PayUneer so they can succeed, irrespective of gender, color, or personal faith. An environment where every person feels they belong, that they are listened to, and where they are empowered to speak up. At PayU we have zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice whether a specific race, ethnicity, or of persons with disabilities, or the LGBTQ communities.

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This being an advanced level position in the S/W development team the individual is expected to:
∙ Participate as a team member in all phases of the S/W lifecycle, including the analysis and design of S/W systems.
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- Writing the clean quality code & Understanding functional requirements thoroughly and analyzing the requirements in the context of the product
- Envisioning the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements, and being able to define technologies, patterns and frameworks
- Determining and implementing design methodologies and tool sets
- Enabling application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities
- Being able to lead/support UAT and production roll outs
- Creating, understanding and validating estimated effort for given module/task, and being able to justify it
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- Giving constructive feedback to the team members and setting clear expectations
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- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
- Familiarity with Maven (Other building tools Ant and Gradle are good to have)
- Familiarity with continuous integration
- Good understanding of Agile practices


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- Write well designed, testable, efficient code by using best website development practices
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- Stay plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities
- Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple tasks within the constraints of timelines and budgets with business acumen
- Ready to take on additional responsibilities if and when required
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- Frontend: HTML5, CSS3 (Bootstrap Framework) and JQuery
- Backend: PHP 7 and MySqli 8
- Server: Linux OS, Nginx Server
- DNS Management: CloudFlare
- Basic knowledge of the Search Engine Optimization process
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- The candidate should have work experience in web programming with the above-mentioned tech stack
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Design and develop robust services in coordination with front-end developers, ensuring the production and development of high-quality and well-tested code
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Take initiatives in developing and maintaining integrations of best practices within the backend department
● Has worked extensively on caching technologies such as Redis, Memcached
● Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design
● Strong understanding of end-to-end architectures and development frameworks; knowledge across tiers in a multi-tier cloud environment including load balancers, web servers, application containers, data stores, and distributed cache
● Should be strong with Data Structures, Algorithms & OOPs concepts
● Should have a good understanding of database load balancing.
● Can clearly demonstrate an understanding of the Application layer from the OSI model and Presentation layer from the OSI Model.
● Worked on NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
● Designed and developed highly scalable multi-threaded large scale distributed systems
● Well versed with services and microservices architecture
● Usage of containers, virtual machine systems, cloud computing
● Knowledge on Socket would be a big advantage
● Should have a good understanding of how load-balancing works
● Should have an understanding of how CDN works.



