Technical Staff Engineer, VP

Position Overview

Job Title:Technical Staff Engineer, VP

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

Leads technical strategy and platform engineering for high-scale, cloud-native payments and treasury platforms supporting real-time transactions, payouts, ledgering, and reconciliation.
Acts as a technology evangelist and engineering leader, driving platform modernization using distributed systems and Google-scale infrastructure patterns to ensure reliability, security, scalability, and compliance. Influences engineering standards, developer experience, platform adoption, and innovation across fintech products and integrations.

What we'll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy

Best in class leave policy
Gender neutral parental leaves
100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
Accident and Term life Insurance
Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

Act as BFA for development and enhancement of our API based SaaS
Own architecture for high-scale fintech platforms: payments, payouts, collections, and treasury flows
Design real-time, event-driven transaction systems with idempotency, reconciliation, and ledger integrity
Build and scale multi-tenant, API-first platforms (Kubernetes, service mesh), with highly scalable SaaS platforms for external client integrations
Drive developer-centric platform capabilities: SDKs, APIs, webhooks, and partner onboarding at scale
Embed SRE practices: SLAs/SLOs, observability, incident response, and reliability engineering
Ensure secure-by-design systems: encryption, tokenization, key management, fraud/risk hooks
Optimize latency, throughput, and cost per transaction across high-volume payment flows
Enable global readiness: multi-currency, cross-border flows, and regulatory adaptability
Mentor teams and enforce engineering excellence for always-on fintech SaaS systems

Your skills and experience

15+ years in fintech platforms, payments infrastructure, or high-scale transaction systems
Proven experience building API-driven, high-throughput, low-latency systems
Strong hands-on skills in Go/Java/C++/Python
Experience with Kubernetes, microservices, event streaming, and APIs (gRPC/REST/webhooks)
Cloud expertise (GCP preferred AWS/Azure acceptable)
Deep understanding of ledgering, reconciliation, and eventual vs strong consistency trade-offs
Strong grounding in SRE, fault tolerance, and distributed systems at scale
Experience with PCI-DSS, secure data handling, and fintech compliance patterns
Ability to influence platform architecture, scalability, and product velocity at org level
Core Expertise - GCP / Google-Scale Systems
Apply Google-scale patterns to API-first fintech platforms with global scale and uptime requirements
Distributed storage (Bigtable/Spanner-like) for real-time balances, ledgers, and transaction state
Large-scale data processing (MapReduce, streaming) for reconciliation, settlement, and analytics
Container orchestration (Borg/Kubernetes) for elastic, multi-tenant workloads
Planet-scale networking for low-latency APIs, global routing, and resilient failover
Strong grasp of fault tolerance, eventual consistency, and financial correctness trade-offs
Hands-on use of GCP-native services to build scalable, secure fintech platforms

How we'll support you

Training and development to help you excel in your career
Coaching and support from experts in your team
A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

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We strive for a in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.
Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.
We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.