SDE III

Backend Engineer ( SDE 3)

5+ Years

We at Setu are looking for those who share our core belief - Every Day is Game Day. We bring our best selves to work each day to realize our mission of enriching the world through the power of digital commerce and financial services.

Role Purpose:

We are a micro-startup within Setu, owning the BBPS stack and powering bill payments across leading banks and fintechs

Every month, transactions worth around billions flow through our systems. We build for scale, reliability, and trust so that millions of customers experience seamless bill payments across India.

We are hiring a Backend Engineer (SDE3) to join the BBPS team at Setu. This role is for engineers who want to build reliable, high-scale payment systems and take end-to-end ownership of meaningful backend problems. The team works on systems that demand scale, resilience, performance, and cost efficiency.

Why This Role Matters

BBPS is a business-critical stack handling high transaction volumes and partner integrations at scale. This role is important for strengthening backend ownership, improving performance and cost efficiency, and helping the team deliver resilient systems for a fast-growing payments business.

What will you do at Setu

• Design, build, and maintain backend services that power high-scale, low-latency payment systems.
• Take end-to-end ownership of problem statements, from architecture and implementation to rollout and monitoring.
• Continuously optimize performance and infrastructure costs, identifying opportunities to make our systems faster and leaner.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and infra teams to deliver reliable and scalable solutions.
• Strengthen system observability, fault tolerance, and scalability through metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Follow and champion engineering best practices including testing, documentation, code reviews, and CI/CD automation.

Our Stack

• Languages and frameworks: Golang
• Datastores: PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, DynamoDB
• Messaging and queues: RabbitMQ, SQS
• Infra and monitoring: AWS, Prometheus, Grafana
• CI/CD and tooling: GitLab, Terraform, Docker

What We Are Looking For

• Strong hands-on experience with Golang and related backend technologies.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, distributed systems, concurrency, and system design.
• Experience in scaling backend systems or optimizing infrastructure costs at high scale.
• Familiarity with AWS and observability tooling such as Grafana, Prometheus, and ClickHouse.
• Demonstrated ownership mindset with the ability to take initiatives from concept to production.
• Passion for clean, maintainable, and efficient code.

Why Setu

We will spare no efforts to ensure that Setu empowers you to do the most important and impactful work of your career—

• Opportunity to work closely with the founding team who built and scaled public infrastructure such as UPI, GST, Aadhaar, etc.

We care deeply about your growth. So we work hard to provide you with—

• A fully stocked library and unlimited book budget.
• Tickets to conferences and industry events.
• Learning sessions where we invite both team members and external experts to teach you something new.
• Learning and development allowance that gives access to subscriptions, courses, certifications, music classes, and much more. Grow, learn, and improve with Setu!
• Kick-ass benefits include comprehensive health insurance for you and your family, personal accident and term life insurance, access to mental health counsellors, extraordinary coffee, and a beautiful office with lots of solid wood and natural light.
• We work hard to make sure our team is diverse and varied. We interview and hire purely on merit, skill, and competence—everything else is irrelevant.

Our core DNA:

Our culture code—How We Move, defines the behaviours we expect from our people. When you display any of the six culture code elements, you demonstrate Every Day is Game Day. The six elements of our culture code—

• Take the shot: You decide fast and deliver right.
• Sign your work like an artist: You master what you do and take pride in it.
• Be the Sherpa: You lead your crew on every expedition.
• Be the CEO of what you do: You own it and make things happen.
• Care with tough love: You empower others with trust, respect, and openness.
• Own tomorrow: You innovate for the customer and beyond.

Join us if you want to be part of a company that's building infrastructure that will directly impact financial inclusion and improve millions of lives. No cashbacks, no growth-hacks, no gimmicks. Just an audacious mission, and an obsession with craftsmanship in code.