Company Description

PhonePe Limited (Formerly PhonePe Private Limited) is a technology company that builds digital platforms for Payments, Digital Distribution Services and Financial Services. Headquartered in India, the PhonePe digital payments app was launched in 2016. As of April 2026, PhonePe has over 70 Crore life-till-date registered users and a digital payments acceptance network spread across over 5 Crore merchants. PhonePe’s products and services include Consumer Payments (including Digital Distribution Services), Merchant Payments, Lending and Insurance Distribution services, and Recent Platforms, which comprise Share.Market (stock broking and mutual funds distribution platform), and Indus Appstore (Android-based mobile app marketplace). Culture:
At PhonePe, we go the extra mile to make sure you can bring your best self to work, Everyday. And that starts with creating the right environment for you. We empower people and trust them to do the right thing. Here, you own your work from start to finish, right from day one.



PhonePe-rs solve complex problems and execute quickly; often building frameworks from scratch. If you’re excited by the idea of building platforms that touch millions, ideating with some of the best minds in the country and executing on your dreams with purpose and speed, join us

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About the Role
We are building an in-house team to maintain and contribute to our internal Apache Kafka distribution. This is not an operations role - you will work directly on the Kafka codebase itself: i.e. the Broker, KRaft controller, protocol layer, clients, and storage engine.
Working alongside senior technical anchors, you will help maintain our internal Kafka distribution, backport critical fixes, contribute upstream to Apache Kafka, and build benchmarking and testing pipelines for a large-scale production fleet.
We already do this successfully with GlusterFS, where we maintain an in-house distribution backed by deep upstream expertise, and we

📌 Software Engineer, Backend (Bengaluru)
🏢 Phonepe
📍 Bengaluru