Backend- Technical Lead

📋 Description

• Design scalable architectures
• Coach engineers
• Lead technology-first projects
• Drive backend systems supporting 100M+ DAUs
• Optimize APIs to sub-50ms latencies
• Champion engineering excellence

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience — Nodejs
• Proven ownership of high-scale distributed systems
• Deep knowledge of microservices, messaging systems, caching, storage optimization, and cloud
• Clear architectural thinking; can design systems for billions of transactions
• AI-first mindset — know how to augment yourself with GPT and other AI coding tools
• Strong leadership skills — mentoring, code reviewing, pushing for engineering best practices

🎁 Benefits

• Massive ownership and real-world system building opportunities
• Work with AI, not against it — code smarter, architect smarter, and build smarter
• Pure tech-driven team inside Paytm — no unnecessary meetings, no bureaucracy
• Work on critical platforms, live user-impacting systems, and future-proof engineering