Software Engineer- Nodejs

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:

As a Software Engineer, You would be working with the senior technology people of our company with the goal of developing high-quality software, aligned with our business strategy and the user demand.

Requirements:

He/She/They should have 1+yr experience in server-side application development experience with NodeJS, Spring boot, Microservice, Typescript, etc.

Deeply technical with a track record of successful delivery.

An entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong program and product management skills.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex plans and designs.

Excellent judgment, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Excellent design and architecture knowledge.

Data-driven decision making.

Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Skills that will help you succeed in this role:

Language: Node DB: RDBMS, Messaging: Kafka/RabbitMQ, Caching: Redis/Aerospike, Micro services, AWS

Good experience in scaling, performance tuning & optimization at both API and storage layers

What We're Looking For:

• 2+years of backend development experience in Nodejs
• 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:

• You’ll build at true scale systems handling millions of transactions per day, sub-100ms latencies, and five 9s availability.
• You’ll work in a team that is serious about engineering, no fluff, just deep tech, deep impact.
• You’ll be encouraged to use AI tools daily — coding, debugging, testing — and even invent new ways of using AI in software development.
• You’ll 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.