Required skills/experience
• Positive understanding of low level and hight level design of distributed systems.
• Comfortable in developing systems with mainstream programming languages e.g. Java(preferred), Golang (good to have)
• Understands the code development life cycle, key checks of every stage and can collaborate with stakeholders to ensure them.
• Well versed with practices of good code development and code review and can ensure teams participating in it.
• Product Thinking: Uncover the why,challenge assumptions and turn ambiguity into simple, high-impact solutions that translate intent into action.
• Innovation: Challenge the status quo, simplify complexity, embrace new technologies, and turn curiosity → experiment → insight → solution into elegant, reliable, scalable systems that create lasting value.
• AI Engineering: Build practical expertise in AI, LLMs, agents, automation, and emerging technologies to transform engineering workflows with context-aware, evidence-based, reliable, validated, and safely controlled AI solutions.
• Comfortable with writing and reviewing technical design documents.
• Can contribute to cross functional architectural and design discussions which spans across teams.
• Should be able to evaluate and comment on priorities of the team from technical debt and product requirement stand point.
• Can lead by example,



mentor and inspire a group of skilled engineers to achieve business critical goals.
• Good understanding of agile development methodology.
• Agile and fast learner to adapt with the requirements of the product and engineering.

Experience:
12+ years Who you will do:
• Writing high-quality code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems of varying complexity and scope
• Opportunity to be part of a passionate, purpose driven team of highly skilled individuals which is on mission it making it one of leading Fintech companies of the world.
• Build your legacy while big systems are in the making.
• Build highly scalable, resilient and resource efficient systems which handle the load of more than 40mil requests a day and aims to grow 2X every year.
• Learn and contribute towards some of the best engineer practices.
• Use, propose and potentially contribute to best of the open source technology stacks.
• Lead teams and projects which make impact in the tech community and society.
• Evangelise your ideas which you believe in, and learn about how to make them a reality.
• Become a mentor and be mentored by some of the best.
• Publish your work and learnings in terms of blogs, paper or present them in tech forums.

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