Software Engineer

About the job

Challenges Building for Scale, Rapid Iterative Development, and Customer-centric Product Thinking at each step defines every day for a developer at PhonePe. Though we engineer for a 50million+ strong user base, we code with every individual user in mind. While we are quick to adopt the latest in Engineering, we care utmost for security, stability, and automation. As a Software Engineer: ● You will build Robust and scalable web-based applications ● You will need to think of platforms & reuse ● 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 ● Mentor young minds and foster team spirit, break down execution into phases to bring predictability to overall execution ● 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 senior 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 ● 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) ● Strong desire to solving complex and interesting real-world problems ● Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platform ● Go-getter attitude that reflects in energy and intent behind assigned tasks ● 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). ● Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with a huge amount of data. ● 5+ years of experience in the art of writing code and solving problems on a Large Scale. ● An open communicator who shares thoughts and opinions frequently listens intently and takes constructive feedback. As a Software Engineer, good to have: ● The ability to drive the design and architecture of multiple subsystems ● Ability to break-down larger/fuzzier problems into smaller ones in the scope of the product ● Understanding of the industry’s coding standards and an ability to create appropriate technical documentation.

Requirements

• Java
• C
• C++
• MySQL

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience

Preferred Technologies

• Java
• C
• C++
• MySQL