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# Backend - Technical Lead at Paytm

- **Company:** Paytm
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-06-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/paytm/fffdcfb1-fd6e-4401-b059-500838a6db0e

## Job description

Backend - Technical Lead

About Us: 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.

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:

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. 5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience — Java, Spring Boot, AWS.)
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.

Ideal Profile

1. Obsessed with system scale, performance, and reliability.
2. Already using or excited to use AI tools (GPT, Copilot, etc.) for development.
3. Loves deep backend engineering, and believes technology should move fast, with high impact.
4. Wants to grow into a principal engineer, architect, or CTO over time.

Preferred Qualifications : Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent(Only from Tier 1/2 colleges)

Compensation: If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you. With enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 21 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants – and we are committed to it. India’s largest digital lending story is brewing here. It is your opportunity to be a part of the story!

## About Paytm

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Paytm is India’s leading full-stack payments and financial services platform, enabling digital payments for consumers and merchants while distributing loans, insurance, and investment products.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NSE: PAYTM)
- **Headquarters**: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Vijay Shekhar Sharma

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Payments, Financial Services, Marketing Services
- **Target customers**: B2C (consumers) and B2B (MSMEs, enterprises, online platforms)
- **Mission/purpose**: “To bring 500 million unserved and underserved Indians to the mainstream economy.” [paytm.com/about-us](https://paytm.com/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **Payment Services (Consumer & Merchant)**: QR code payments, Soundbox devices (with real‑time audio confirmation), All‑in‑One POS terminals, online payment gateway, UPI (including UPI Lite), and card acceptance. _Type_: Hardware + SaaS platform.
- **Financial Services Distribution**: Merchant loans, personal loans, insurance, and equity broking (via Paytm Money). _Type_: Service / marketplace.
- **Marketing Services**: Advertising, travel ticketing (bus, movies, flights), deals & gift vouchers. _Type_: Platform / marketplace.
- **Paytm Money Ltd**: Investment platform for mutual funds, stocks, NFOs. _Type_: App / brokerage.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed in provided sources (publicly traded; market cap fluctuates).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue estimated at **$758.2M** (LinkedIn, 2025); 39,368 active on‑roll employees in FY 2025. [linkedin.com/company/paytm](https://linkedin.com/company/paytm)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not listed in provided sources (historically backed by SoftBank, Ant Financial, etc. – not verifiable from search results).
- **Growth Signals**: 18.7% YoY headcount growth (+4,811 people); serves **44M+ merchants** and **300M+ consumers**; deepened penetration in tier‑2/3 cities; successfully transitioned to a Third‑Party Application Provider (TPAP) for UPI under a multi‑bank model. [paytm.com/about-us](https://paytm.com/about-us), [paytm.com annual report](https://paytm.com/document/ir/annual-reports/fy2024-25/Paytm_Annual_Report_2024---25.pdf)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full‑stack merchant payments leader** – owns the merchant relationship, aggregates all major payment instruments, negotiates rates, and provides cutting‑edge hardware (Soundbox, POS).
- **AI‑powered operations** – in‑house platforms Paytm ARMS (merchant lifecycle insights) and Periscope (fraud detection) automate onboarding, segmentation, pricing, and retention.
- **Largest fleet of Soundbox devices** on the street, creating a sticky subscription revenue stream.
- **Massive two‑sided ecosystem** (consumers + merchants) enabling high‑margin cross‑sell of loans, insurance, and marketing services.

## Strategic Focus
- **Payment‑led growth** – continue strengthening merchant payment leadership and expanding the omni‑channel platform.
- **Scale high‑margin financial services** – loan distribution, insurance, and equity broking.
- **Embed an AI‑first approach** across all products and internal processes to drive operating leverage.
- **Explore international expansion** of its technology‑led merchant payments and financial services distribution model. [paytm.com annual report](https://paytm.com/document/ir/annual-reports/fy2024-25/Paytm_Annual_Report_2024---25.pdf)

## Why Work Here
- **Benefits**: Medical insurance for self & family, wellness webinars, mental health support, maternity/paternity benefits, ESOPs, annual bonus, car lease, mobile device lease, employee discounts (Paytm Xtras), learning reimbursement, internal job mobility. [paytm.com/careers](https://paytm.com/careers)
- **Culture**: Innovation‑driven, purpose‑oriented (“simplify lives and fuel growth for millions”), with a strong emphasis on AI and technology. [paytm.com/careers](https://paytm.com/careers)
- **Work policy**: Most roles are **on‑site** (Noida, Mumbai, and other locations). [jobs.lever.co/paytm](https://jobs.lever.co/paytm)
- **Engineering culture**: Self‑driven learning, internal mobility, and the opportunity to work on products used by hundreds of millions of users.

## Sources
1. [Paytm Careers Page](https://paytm.com/careers)
2. [Paytm Job Openings (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/paytm)
3. [Paytm About Us](https://paytm.com/about-us)
4. [Paytm LinkedIn Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/paytm)
5. [Paytm Annual Report FY2024‑25 (PDF)](https://paytm.com/document/ir/annual-reports/fy2024-25/Paytm_Annual_Report_2024---25.pdf)

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