Technical Lead -Backend (Gold)

Technical Lead - Backend

About Us

Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology.

About the role

We are looking for a Tech Lead for the Gold Tech team to drive technical direction, architecture, and delivery of Paytm Digital Gold — a high-scale bullion platform serving consumer and merchant use cases at lakhs+ rpm. This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership — you will architect solutions, unblock the team, own critical money-path reliability, and partner with Product and Engineering leadership on roadmap and execution. We are building reliable, high-availability financial products and need a Tech Lead who can own modules end-to-end, raise the bar on code quality, and mentor junior engineers.

Key Responsibilities

● Define and evolve technical architecture for Gold services — scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability. ● Lead design and implementation of high-availability, high-volume transactional systems. ● Own end-to-end delivery of major initiatives — breakdown, estimation, risk management, and production rollout. ● Set engineering standards: code quality, review practices, testing strategy, observability, and incident response. ● Drive cross-service integration design. ● Guide the team on Kafka event design, scheduler orchestration, CDC pipelines, and data consistency patterns. ● Mentor and grow engineers (SSE and below); conduct reviews, pair on complex problems, and build team capability. ● Contribute hands-on to critical modules; unblock the team on complex bugs, performance issues, and production fires. ● Represent Gold Tech in architecture reviews, tech debt prioritization, and platform-wide initiatives.

Skills Required

● MS or BS/B.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent experience from a top college. ● 6–10 years of backend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a tech lead / senior IC role. ● Deep expertise in Java (J2EE/Spring Boot) and/or Node.js at scale; ability to lead across a polyglot stack. ● Strong proficiency in Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA, REST API design, and/or Node.js/Express production systems. ● Expert-level knowledge of MySQL and distributed data stores (Redis, Cassandra, Aerospike, Elasticsearch). ● Hands-on experience with Kafka, message-driven architecture, and Apache Storm or similar large-scale data processing. ● Proven track record of building high-traffic, fault-tolerant financial or transactional systems. ● Strong system design skills — capacity planning, failure modes, idempotency, saga/compensation patterns, caching strategy. ● Excellent data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving skills. ● Strong communication and stakeholder management — can align Product, Engineering, and Operations. ● Customer-focused, thrives in ambiguity, leads by example in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.