National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) is Hiring

The opportunity
This role offers the chance to design, Development delivery and continuous enhancement of IMPS, AePS & NETC applications at NPCI, supporting Indias rapidly growing digital payments ecosystem. The position focuses on managing missioncritical payment APIs, ensuring scalability, security, high availability, and lowlatency performance. You will work on highscale systems handling billions of transactions, introduce innovative enhancements, and help maintain NPCIs Leadership in digital payments through robust, reliable API platforms.

Job details
- Job Title: Lead Fullstack Application Engineer
- Division: Application Design & Development
- Years of Experience: 9+ to 14 Years
- Education: Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science, Electronics/Electrical Engineering, Data Science, or related technical field
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Location: Mumbai, Hyderabad (HQ, Development Center)
- Role Type: Permanent

Key responsibilities
- Lead endtoend delivery of UPI API applications,



from system design to production deployment.
- Drive continuous enhancements in performance, security, scalability, and regulatory compliance.
- Design, build, and maintain highavailability microservicesbased API Platforms.
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to enable seamless integration and scalable solutions.
- Implement and enforce best practices for API lifecycle management, including versioning and backward compatibility.
- Establish strong observability practices using logging, metrics, and tracing for production systems.
- Optimize system architecture to support high transaction throughput and low latency.
- Ensure reliability and operational stability of APIs powering largescale UPI transactions.

Required Technical SkillsBackend & Middleware
- Java (Spring Boot) for microservices and REST API development

Streaming & Messaging
- Apache Kafka for real-time event streaming and transaction processing

Database

📌 Lead Java Fullstack Application Engineer (Mumbai)
🏢 National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)
📍 Mumbai