Paytm - Backend Software Engineer - Java Technologies

About Us :

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

Here at Paytm, technology isn't just about keeping up, it's about building the future. We believe the next generation of engineers must not only scale systems to billions but also leverage AI and GPT tools to accelerate innovation.

About the Role :

Youll go deep into systems thinking, microservices, caching, messaging, and scalable data architectures.

Youll also be encouraged to actively use AI tools (cursor, codium, copilot , Devin , augment like GPT and others) in your development workflow to code faster, smarter, and better.

What We're Looking For :

- Real-world experience with high-TPS, large-scale systems (or a burning desire to master them).

- Hands-on with Kafka, Redis, RDBMS, and distributed microservices architectures.

- Exposure to AWS Cloud Infrastructure and cloud-native patterns.

- Passion for scaling, performance tuning, and system optimizations.

- Someone who loves to experiment with AI tools (like GPT, Copilot, OpenHands) for code generation, optimization, or workflow improvement.

- You love writing clean, efficient, production-ready code but you are even more obsessed with system performance, uptime, and user impact.

Why You Should Join Us :

- Youll work in a team that is serious about engineering, no fluff, just deep tech, deep impact.

- Youll be encouraged to use AI tools daily coding, debugging, testing and even invent new ways of using AI in software development.

- Youll work alongside engineers who love tech deeply, and where innovation is the default expectation.

- Paytm offers you a career not just a job to become a next-gen tech leader.

Skills that Will Help You Succeed :

- Framework : Java [Spring boot 2.x and above ]

- Databases : Postgres, MySQL, CASSANDRA

- Messaging Systems : Kafka,

- Caching : Redis, Aerospike

- Platforms : AWS, Microservices

- Monitoring : Elastic Search, Kibana, Graphana

- Obsessed with low latency, high throughput systems.

- Fluent with AI-powered coding assistance (a big plus).