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PhonePe

Software Engineer (Backend 3-5yrs)

PhonePe
India · Full-time · Associate

About PhonePe Group:

PhonePe is India’s leading digital payments company with 50 crore (500 Million) registered users and 3.7 crore (37 Million) merchants covering over 99% of the postal codes across India. On the back of its leadership in digital payments, PhonePe has expanded into financial services (Insurance, Mutual Funds, Stock Broking, and Lending) as well as adjacent tech-enabled businesses such as Pincode for hyperlocal shopping and Indus App Store which is India's first localized App Store. The PhonePe Group is a portfolio of businesses aligned with the company's vision to offer every Indian an equal opportunity to accelerate their progress by unlocking the flow of money and access to services.

Culture

At PhonePe, we take extra care to make sure you give your best at work, Everyday! And creating the right environment for you is just one of the things we do. We empower people and trust them to do the right thing. Here, you own your work from start to finish, right from day one. Being enthusiastic about tech is a big part of being at PhonePe. If you like building technology that impacts millions, ideating with some of the best minds in the country and executing on your dreams with purpose and speed, join us!

As a Software Engineer:

  • You will build Robust and Scalable web-based applications.
  • Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scope.
  • Drive problem-solving skills for high-level business and technical problems.
  • Do high-level design with guidance; Functional modeling, break-down of a module.
  • Do incremental changes to architecture: impact analysis of the same.
  • Do performance tuning and improvements in large scale distributed systems
  • Work closely with Product Manager to derive capability view from features/solutions, Lead execution of medium-sized projects
  • Work with broader stakeholders to track the impact of projects/features and proactively iterate to improve them

As a Software Engineer, you must have:

  • Extensive and expert programming experience in at least one general programming language (e.g. Java, C, C++) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.
  • Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming.
  • Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with a huge amount of data.
  • Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
  • Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert the design into code fluently.
  • Knowledge of Test Driven Development.
  • Good understanding of databases (e.g. MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. HBase, Elasticsearch, Aerospike, etc).
  • Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language.
  • Worked in a startups environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
  • BTech, MTech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
  • 3-5 years of experience in the art of writing code and solving problems on a Large Scale.

PhonePe Full Time Employee Benefits (Not applicable for Intern or Contract Roles)

  • Insurance Benefits - Medical Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accidental Insurance, Life Insurance
  • Wellness Program - Employee Assistance Program, Onsite Medical Center, Emergency Support System
  • Parental Support - Maternity Benefit, Paternity Benefit Program, Adoption Assistance Program, Day-care Support Program
  • Mobility Benefits - Relocation benefits, Transfer Support Policy, Travel Policy
  • Retirement Benefits - Employee PF Contribution, Flexible PF Contribution, Gratuity, NPS, Leave Encashment
  • Other Benefits - Higher Education Assistance, Car Lease, Salary Advance Policy

Working at PhonePe is a rewarding experience! Great people, a work environment that thrives on creativity, the opportunity to take on roles beyond a defined job description are just some of the reasons you should work with us. Read more about PhonePe on our blog.

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Posted
Jun 13, 2025
Type
Full-time
Level
Associate
Location
Bengaluru
Company
PhonePe

Industries

Software Development

Categories

Engineering Information Technology

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