Software Development Lead

At Cashfree Payments, we're not just shaping the future of payments—we're moving fast to scale businesses at every stage, with deep expertise in powering India's D2C and e-commerce growth.

Founded in 2015, we process transactions worth $80B annually and are trusted by more than 800,000 businesses. Authorised by the Reserve Bank of India, we are one of the first entities to receive critical licences like PA-PG, PA-CB and PPI in the sector. We enable seamless collections, payouts, identity verification, and fraud detection.

We are backed by Silicon Valley investor Y Combinator, Apis Partners, Krafton Inc, State Bank of India (SBI), and were incubated by PayPal.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or a related discipline) as well as work experience of 7+ years.
• Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, storage technologies, distributed computing, operating systems, etc.
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable solutions in a large-scale distributed environment.
• Robust and defensive coding skills using Java/Golang or any other Object-Oriented Programming Language.
• Strong knowledge of RDBMS and any other NoSQL database technologies (Mysql, MongoDB).

What you will do:

• Participate in the requirements analysis, design, development and testing of applications.
• Scale distributed applications, make architectural tradeoffs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality.
• Optimize APIs for any applications while creating and maintaining unit tests for new code as well as fix defects.
• Works on the web application layer, backend, systems, streaming and other associated technology to build our product and components.
• Participate in the continuous integration of automated builds and deployments, ensuring that deliverables meet functional and design requirements and specifications of the site/software.
• Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people.
• Work with engineering leadership in solving and architecting solutions for challenging or complex site/software development issues.
• Take initiatives in developing and maintaining integrations of best practices within the backend department.