Job Title: Lead Backend Engineer – Payments

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 9–12 years

Key Responsibilities

- Design and develop scalable, high-performance payment systems and microservices using Golang.- Build secure and resilient payment platforms for Pay-In, Pay-Out, Settlement, and Reconciliation.- Architect distributed systems with high availability and low latency.- Optimize APIs, databases, and system performance.- Collaborate with Product, Business, and Operations teams to deliver payment solutions.- Drive engineering best practices, observability, and production reliability.- Mentor engineers and contribute to technical leadership.

Technical Skills

- Strong expertise in Golang, Microservices, Distributed Systems, REST APIs, and Event-Driven Architecture.- Hands-on experience with AWS services, including ECS/EKS, SQS/SNS, Lambda, CloudWatch, S3, and RDS.- Solid knowledge of MongoDB,



database design, indexing, and performance optimization.- Experience with Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.- Good understanding of monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, and Prometheus.

Domain Experience

- Strong experience in Payments, Banking Integrations, Payment Gateways, Settlement, Reconciliation, and high-volume transaction systems.- Understanding of transaction lifecycle, idempotency, retries, and financial controls.

AI Experience

- Hands-on experience using AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Gemini for code generation, refactoring, documentation, testing, and engineering productivity improvements.

📌 Lead Backend Engineer – Payments | CTC Upto 60-65 LPA (Mumbai)
🏢 Round1 Jobs
📍 Mumbai