About the team: PayU Finance is the credit and lending arm of the PayU brand (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Prosus group. Previously Naspers group) headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. PayU Finance India has disbursed about 20 billion loans to date by volume and has disbursed more than $280 million in consumer credit. PayU Finance provides consumers with easy access to affordable short-term loans up to INR 5 lacs that can be availed in the form of personal loans, point of sale EMI, and express loans. PayU Finance operates under two brands - LazyPay and PaySense with a focus on Buy now Pay later and personal loan products. About the team: PayU Finance is the credit and lending arm of the PayU brand (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Prosus group. Previously Naspers group) headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. PayU Finance India has disbursed about 20 billion loans to date by volume and has disbursed more than $280 million in consumer credit. PayU Finance provides consumers with easy access to affordable short-term loans up to INR 5 lacs that can be availed in the form of personal loans, point of sale EMI, and express loans. PayU Finance operates under two brands - LazyPay and PaySense with a focus on Buy now Pay later and personal loan products. About the Role: As a Lead Software Engineer you’re expected to support a team of young and vibrant bunch of engineers by guiding them through our dev processes and best practices. You’re also expected to support existing functionalities and to build out new features which are part of the Development Roadmap.
What you’ll be doing:
Understand business requirements and identify the best approach to serve the requirement without risking the system's conceptual sanity.
Ensure adoption and adherence of agreed upon coding practices within the team.
Uphold the sanity and sanctity of owned systems.
Apply knowledge of accepted design and architectural practices to evolve systems both in concept and in performance.
Optimize flows within systems for better performance in response times and memory consumption.
Tear down unused flows and concepts to make way for the new and evolved ones.
What are we looking for?
Someone with 6+ years of hands-on experience with Core Java & Spring Boot/Hibernate.
Someone who is proficient in PostgreSQL/MySQL, Microservices & Rest API.
Someone who has hands-on experience with KAFKA/SQS (Any messaging Queue) & Redis/Memcached.
Someone who takes ownership and believes in seeing through tasks to its completion despite facing any challenge.
Someone who is not averse to learning and growth and has an open mind about inputs/suggestions from any stakeholder.
Bonus point if you have:
Experience in the Fintech domain and/ or B2C product experience.
Experience in Spring WebFlux or Python+DJango is a plus.
An engineering degree in Computer Science.
Worked on products with a massive user scale - 1 Mn+ DAUs especially.
What we offer
A positive, get-things-done workplace
A dynamic, constantly evolving space (change is par for the course – important you are comfortable with this)
An inclusive environment that ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions.
Ability to learn cutting edge concepts and innovation in an agile start-up environment with a global scale
Access to 5000+ training courses accessible anytime/anywhere to support your growth and development (Corporate with top learning partners like Harvard, Coursera, Udacity)
