Technical Consultant

🚀 AVP – Payments Engineering (UPI & Payments Platform)

We're looking for an experienced AVP – Payments Engineering to lead the architecture, engineering, and scalability of our next-generation Payments Platform. This role will own the end-to-end technology stack for UPI, P2P, P2M, Autopay, Mandates, Merchant Payments, Reconciliation, and Payment Reliability, delivering a highly available, secure, and scalable platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technology roadmap and architecture for the Payments Platform.
• Lead and mentor Engineering Managers, Architects, and high-performing engineering teams.
• Design and scale distributed, event-driven microservices capable of handling high transaction volumes.
• Drive platform reliability, availability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Build robust observability through monitoring, alerting, tracing, and capacity planning.
• Implement security best practices, fraud prevention frameworks, and ensure compliance with NPCI, RBI, and PCI-DSS standards.
• Drive engineering excellence through CI/CD, automation, platform standardization, and cloud-native practices.
• Partner with Product, Business, Risk, and Operations teams to deliver seamless payment experiences.

What We're Looking For

• 12–18+ years of experience in backend/platform engineering.
• 5+ years leading multiple engineering teams through Engineering Managers.
• Strong experience in UPI, Digital Payments, Banking, Payment Gateways, Wallets, Merchant Payments, or FinTech platforms.
• Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Kafka, API Gateways, Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), Kubernetes, and High-Scale Databases.
• Strong understanding of SRE practices, Observability, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Platform Scalability.
• Experience with NPCI integrations, Payment Switching, Security, Fraud Prevention, and Regulatory Compliance is highly preferred.

Preferred Background

Candidates from leading payment, fintech, banking, or large-scale technology organizations with proven experience building mission-critical transaction platforms handling millions of daily transactions.