
PhonePe is India’s leading digital payments platform with over 280 million registered users. Using
PhonePe, users can send and receive money, recharge mobile, DTH, data cards, pay at stores,
make utility payments, buy gold, and make investments. PhonePe went live for customers in
August 2016 and was the first non-banking UPI app and offered money transfer to individuals
and merchants, recharges and bill payments to begin with. In 2017, PhonePe forayed into
financial services with the launch of digital gold, providing users with a safe and convenient
option to buy 24-karat gold securely on its platform. PhonePe has since launched Mutual Funds
and Insurance products like tax-saving funds, liquid funds, international travel insurance, Corona
Care, a dedicated insurance product for the COVID-19 pandemic among others.
PhonePe launched its Switch platform in 2018, and today its customers can place orders on over
300 apps including Ola, Myntra, IRCTC, Goibibo, RedBus, Oyo etc. directly from within the
PhonePe mobile app. PhonePe is accepted at over 18 million merchant outlets across 500 cities
nationally.
Culture
At PhonePe, we take extra care to make sure you give your best at work, Everyday! And creating
the right environment for you is just one of the things we do. We empower people and trust
them to do the right thing. Here, you own your work from start to finish, right from day one.
Being enthusiastic about tech is a big part of being at PhonePe. If you like building technology
that impacts millions, ideating with some of the best minds in the country and executing on your
dreams with purpose and speed, join us!
Challenges
Building for Scale, Rapid Iterative Development, and Customer-centric Product Thinking at each
step defines every day for a developer at PhonePe. Though we engineer for a 50million+ strong
user base, we code with every individual user in mind. While we are quick to adopt the latest in
Engineering, we care utmost for security, stability, and automation. Apply if you want to
experience the best combination of passionate application development and product-driven
thinking
As a Software Engineer:
3+ years of experience in the art of writing code and solving problems on a Large Scale.
You will build Robust and scalable web-based applications You will need to think of
platforms & reuse
Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scope
Drive problem-solving skills for high-level business and technical problems.
Do high-level design with guidance; Functional modeling, break-down of a module
Do incremental changes to architecture: impact analysis of the same
Do performance tuning and improvements in large scale distributed systems
Mentor young minds and foster team spirit, break down execution into phases to bring
predictability to overall execution
Work closely with Product Manager to derive capability view from features/solutions, Lead
execution of medium-sized projects
Work with broader stakeholders to track the impact of projects/features and proactively
iterate to improve them As a senior software engineer you must have
Extensive and expert programming experience in at least one general programming
language (e.g. Java, C, C++) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.
Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and
huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert the design into code fluently
Knowledge of Test Driven Development
Good understanding of databases (e.g. MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. HBase, Elasticsearch,
Aerospike, etc)
Strong desire to solving complex and interesting real-world problems
Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux
platform
Go-getter attitude that reflects in energy and intent behind assigned tasks
Worked in a startups environment with high levels of ownership and commitment
BTech, MTech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing
large complex business flows and dealing with a huge amount of data.
An open communicator who shares thoughts and opinions frequently listens intently and
takes constructive feedback.
As a Software Engineer, good to have
The ability to drive the design and architecture of multiple subsystems
Ability to break-down larger/fuzzier problems into smaller ones in the scope of the product
Understanding of the industry’s coding standards and an ability to create appropriate
technical documentation.
PhonePe Full Time Employee Benefits
Insurance Benefits - Medical Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accidental Insurance, Life
Insurance
Wellness Program - Employee Assistance Program, Onsite Medical Center, Emergency
Support System
Parental Support - Maternity Benefit, Paternity Benefit Program, Adoption Assistance
Program, Day-care Support Program
Mobility Benefits - Relocation benefits, Transfer Support Policy, Travel Policy
Retirement Benefits - Employee PF Contribution, Flexible PF Contribution, Gratuity, NPS,
Leave Encashment
Other Benefits - Higher Education Assistance, Car Lease, Mobile & Broadband
Reimbursements, Salary Advance Policy

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