Principal Architect - Software Engineering

Architects at PayU are technical leaders who are responsible for driving technology & engineering good practices. We are a growing rapidly & constantly improving organization. We seek very high ownership levels in all individuals, especially roles like this - ownership of systems and their impact on the entire PayU ecosystem. Going beyond your role & contributing to making the organization & business better is an expectation

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Partner with business, product, and engineering leaders to define technology architecture. Be comfortable working directly with Directors to ensure the overall success of the projects and initiatives.
• Review solution designs to determine their technical viability; ensure their relevance to the business goals
• Define and influence technology roadmap. Help teams consistently deliver robust solutions and guide engineering teams toward a common methodology/standardization.
• Experiment/Champion the adoption of the latest and relevant technology trends.
• Participating in code reviews, design reviews, and architecture discussions.
• Being responsible for Scaling, Performance & Quality for the team.
• Setting up best practices to help the team achieve the above, constantly thinking about improving the technology use, and driving engineering excellence within the teams are your responsibilities.
• Driving the adoption of these best practices around coding, design, quality, and performance in your team.

Requirements (Must-Haves):

• At least 15+ years of experience in software development and architecture.
• Self-driven, comfortable with a fast-paced, always-on, highly ambiguous start-up environment with a passion for user experience
• Demonstrated experience with internet-scale cloud-based distributed systems development(end to end), Microservices(PYTHON/JAVA), large databases(RDBMS/NoSQL), and high-volume/high-performance websites and web services.
• Demonstrated experience in one or more cloud platforms (AWS must, GCP nice to have). Have deep knowledge of advanced technologies such as Redis, Kafka, ServiceMesh, Message Bus, etc.
• Good knowledge of new frameworks, and platform trends in the space of distributed systems, (Incl. Kubernetes, Dockers, Kafka)
• Able to solve complex, multi-dimensional problems and deal comfortably with abstraction/fuzzy problems resulting in a robust, highly scalable, and well-architected solution.
• Must have excellent fire-fighting skills during outages, while maintaining a calm and composed posture.
• Metrics-driven and obsessed with NFRs (Performance, security, et.al) and recommending/developing toolsets for the same.
• Be the technical face in representing PayU to the outside world via blogs, presenting in forums/industry events, etc.
• Must have excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills (Must be a team player)
• Excellent mentoring skills - Be the technical mentor to your team(s).
• Contribute to the overall hiring process of PayU in enabling the hiring of the best technical talent and maintaining the highest standards for technical hiring.
• Prior experience working with fintech that scaled rapidly would be a plus.