Software Engineer (Backend, 3-5 yrs)

Job Description

PhonePe Group is seeking a Software Engineer to join their team in Bengaluru. PhonePe is a leading digital payments company in India. The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of experience and a strong background in backend development.

The Software Engineer will be responsible for building robust and scalable web-based applications, driving problem-solving for business and technical problems, and mentoring junior team members. The role involves working closely with the Product Manager and broader stakeholders to track the impact of projects and iterate for improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Build robust and scalable web-based applications
• Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scope
• Drive problem-solving skills for high-level business and technical problems
• Do high-level design with guidance; Functional modeling, break-down of a module
• Do incremental changes to architecture: impact analysis of the same
• Do performance tuning and improvements in large scale distributed systems
• Mentor young minds and foster team spirit, break down execution into phases to bring predictability to overall execution
• Work closely with Product Manager to derive capability view from features/solutions, Lead execution of medium-sized projects
• Work with broader stakeholders to track the impact of projects/features and proactively iterate to improve them

Requirements:

• Extensive programming experience in at least one general programming language (e.g. Java, C, C++)
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
• Experience in object-oriented design skills and knowledge of design patterns
• Excellent coding skills
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development
• Good understanding of databases (e.g. MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. HBase, Elasticsearch, Aerospike, etc)
• Strong desire to solve complex and interesting real-world problems
• Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platform
• Go-getter attitude with high levels of ownership and commitment
• BTech, MTech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent)
• Experience in building highly scalable business applications
• 3-5 years of experience in the art of writing code and solving problems on a Large Scale
• An open communicator who shares thoughts and opinions frequently

Benefits:

• Medical Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accidental Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Onsite Medical Center
• Emergency Support System
• Maternity & Paternity Benefits
• Adoption Assistance Program
• Day-care Support Program
• Relocation benefits
• Transfer Support Policy
• Travel Policy
• Employee PF Contribution
• Flexible PF Contribution
• Gratuity
• NPS
• Leave Encashment
• Higher Education Assistance
• Car Lease
• Salary Advance Policy