Architects at PayU are technical leaders who are responsible for driving technology & engineering good practices. We are a growing rapidly & constantly improving organization. We seek very high ownership levels in all individuals, especially roles like this - ownership of systems and their impact on the entire PayU ecosystem. Going beyond your role & contributing to making the organization & business better is an expectation
Key Job Responsibilities:
Partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to define technology architecture. Be comfortable working directly with Directors to ensure the overall success of the projects and initiatives.
Review solution designs to determine their technical viability; ensure their relevance to the business goals
Define and influence technology roadmap. Help teams consistently deliver robust solutions and guide engineering teams toward a common methodology/standardization.
Experiment/Champion the adoption of the latest and relevant technology trends.
Participating in code reviews, design reviews, and architecture discussions.
Being responsible for Scaling, Performance & Quality for the team.
Setting up best practices to help the team achieve the above, constantly thinking about improving the technology use, and driving engineering excellence within the teams are your responsibilities.
Driving the adoption of these best practices around coding, design, quality, and performance in your team.
Requirements (Must-Haves):
At least 15+ years of experience in software development and architecture.
Self-driven, comfortable with a fast-paced, always-on, highly ambiguous start-up environment with a passion for user experience
Demonstrated experience with internet-scale cloud-based distributed systems development(end to end), Microservices(PYTHON/JAVA), large databases(RDBMS/NoSQL), and high-volume/high-performance websites and web services.
Demonstrated experience in one or more cloud platforms (AWS must, GCP nice to have). Have deep knowledge of advanced technologies such as Redis, Kafka, ServiceMesh, Message Bus, etc.
Good knowledge of new frameworks, and platform trends in the space of distributed systems, (Incl. Kubernetes, Dockers, Kafka)
Able to solve complex, multi-dimensional problems and deal comfortably with abstraction/fuzzy problems resulting in a robust, highly scalable, and well-architected solution.
Must have excellent fire-fighting skills during outages, while maintaining a calm and composed posture.
Metrics-driven and obsessed with NFRs (Performance, security, et.al) and recommending/developing toolsets for the same.
Be the technical face in representing PayU to the outside world via blogs, presenting in forums/industry events, etc.
Must have excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills (Must be a team player)
Excellent mentoring skills - Be the technical mentor to your team(s).
Contribute to the overall hiring process of PayU in enabling the hiring of the best technical talent and maintaining the highest standards for technical hiring.
Prior experience working with fintech that scaled rapidly would be a plus.
