Lead Engineer – Payments Platform

Job Title: Assistant Manager | Lead Engineer – Payments Platform - Hyderabad

Designation: Assistant Manager

Employment Type : Full-time Contract (FTC)

Location: Hyderabad

Job Summary

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to work closely on a tight knit team that will be

building next generation products to solve complex enterprise business use cases. You will

be designing and implementing - with security, scalability, reliability and observability as

pillars to your approach - rich Ul interfaces and performant API's for consumption by

multiple enterprise applications across mobile, web and direct API integration experiences.

Your work profile

• Own end-to-end design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of

new features

• Write production-ready, testable code for backend services, frontend apps, and

CI/CD pipelines

• Define solution designs that balance architectural best practices with security,

scalability, reliability, and performance

• Investigate and analyze failures, propose design improvements, and drive

operational excellence

• Ensure all development artifacts comply with security and regulatory standards

• Embed software reliability engineering principles into day-to-day development

• Champion emerging technologies and contribute to our technology transformation

roadmap

• Use Gen AI coding techniques and AI-based workflows to navigate existing

codebases and accelerate new development

• Collaborate eSectively with the US team across time zones to deliver aligned, highquality

outcomes

• Be a thorough code reviewer—high-quality, actionable reviews are a must

• Collaborate with and coach team members, sharing expertise to foster professional

growth and alignment on best practices

• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement

• Prioritize and size tasks for incremental delivery; communicate blockers and risks proactively

Key skills required:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience with 9-11 years of relevant experience.

• Master's degree, or equivalent work experience with minimum nine years of

relevant experience.

• Proven track record architecting and building highly maintainable, extensible, and

testable distributed systems.

• Deep expertise in modern frontend and backend frameworks, including

Node.js/Next.js with TypeScript and React (or Angular/Vue), to craft responsive UIs

and integrate with REST APIs

• Hands-on experience designing and implementing microservices and APIs using

Java/Spring Boot, with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).

• Extensive background developing cloud-native applications on AWS—leveraging

services like EC2, Lambda, EKS, RDS, etc.

• Demonstrated ability to design low-latency, high-throughput systems that scale

reliably under heavy load using circuit breakers, rate limiting, caching strategies.

• Experience with Jenkins/Cloud bees, Gitlab, Apigee, Istio, Kubernetes, Rancher.

• Fluency in functional programming paradigms and modern JavaScript/TypeScript

design patterns, complemented by expertise in building scalable backend services

with Java and Spring Boot.

• Mastery of version control and collaborative workflows (Git branching strategies,

pull requests, code reviews).

• Ability to analyze the bigger picture, identifying and prioritizing with the aim to

consider more than one domain within an analysis

• Hands-on experience with agile methodologies and DevOps principles, fostering

continuous integration, deployment automation, and rapid feedback loops.

• Technically proficient and able to define and fulfill solutions requirements for end

user - Preferred skill securing app and containers using certificates