Lead Backend Engineer – Payments | CTC Upto 60-65 LPA

Job Title: Lead Backend Engineer – Payments

Location: Bangalore

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.
• Strong 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.