Backend- Technical Lead

Role overview

Backend- Technical Lead at Paytm

1) As a Technical Lead, you’ll not just write code - you’ll design scalable architectures, coach engineers, and lead technology-first projects. 2) You'll drive backend systems that support 100M+ DAUs, optimize APIs to sub-50ms latencies, and be a champion of engineering excellence. 3) We expect you to actively use AI tools to accelerate architecture design, code reviews, prototyping, and developer productivity.

What We're Looking For: 1) 4 to 6 ears of hands-on backend engineering experience - Java/Nodejs. 2) Proven ownership of high-scale distributed systems.

Deep knowledge of microservices, messaging systems, caching, storage optimization, and cloud scalability. 3) Clear architectural thinking; you can design systems for billions of transactions, not just millions. 4) An AI-first mindset - you should know how to augment yourself with GPT and other AI coding tools to move 2x faster. 5) Strong leadership skills - mentoring, code reviewing, pushing for engineering best practices.

Why You Should Join Us: 1) Massive ownership and real-world system building opportunities. 2) Work with AI, not against it - code smarter, architect smarter, and build smarter. 3) We are a pure tech-driven team inside Paytm - no unnecessary meetings, no bureaucracy. 4) You’ll work on critical platforms, live user-impacting systems, and future-proof engineering.

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Employment details

• Location: Noida [Uttar Pradesh]

About the employer

• Paytm is India’s largest digital payments and financial services platform, leading the mobile QR revolution.
• We power millions of businesses and individuals, and we’re building scalable, resilient systems to serve half a billion Indians and beyond.

Additional role details

• Backend - Technical Lead