Software Engineer, Backend

Company Description

PhonePe Limited (Formerly PhonePe Private Limited) is a technology company that builds digital platforms for Payments, Digital Distribution Services and Financial Services. Headquartered in India, the PhonePe digital payments app was launched in 2016. As of April 2026, PhonePe has over 70 Crore life-till-date registered users and a digital payments acceptance network spread across over 5 Crore merchants. PhonePe's products and services include Consumer Payments (including Digital Distribution Services), Merchant Payments, Lending and Insurance Distribution services, and New Platforms, which comprise Share.Market (stock broking and mutual funds distribution platform), and Indus Appstore (Android-based mobile app marketplace).

Job Description

• Acquire product requirements and designing an optimal solution, by working with stakeholders across domains.
• Develop and maintain in-house components.
• Own the implemented solutions end-to-end, right from inception to deployment and monitoring to regular upkeep.
• Identify infrastructure wide, company wide problems and provide a scalable solution.
• Measure and increase compliance of solutions.
• Bring a DevOps mindset to implementations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in any discipline.
• 7-10 years of software engineering experience, building and scaling production systems.
• Demonstrated experience leading a pod of 3-4 or more engineers, defining technical direction, running design reviews, and unblocking daily implementation challenges.
• Track record of driving systems or major features from architectural design to deployment and production maintenance.
• Proficient in at least two of these languages: Python/Go/Rust/C.
• Experience with or knowledge of operating systems; current trends.
• Good in networking fundamentals/systems knowledge, exposure to open source technologies.
• Good in data structures/algorithms.

Additional Information

• Integrates AI driven insights to accelerate problem solving and decision making processes.
• Awareness of cloud technologies, Mesos, KVM/QEMU, NodeJS/React will be good to have.