Job Description
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.
Job Details
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Job Location
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Bengaluru India
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Company Industry
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Other Business Support Services
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Company Type
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Unspecified
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Employment Type
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Unspecified
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Monthly Salary Range
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Unspecified
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Unspecified