Lead Software Engineer - Java(Algorithms & Data structures)

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, C++, C Programming, SQL, Cloud computing, Scala Programming, Machine learning techniques, Data science techniques, MATLAB Programming, PyTorch, TensorFlow, R Programming

Job Description

As a Lead Software Engineer you’re expected to support a team of young and vibrant bunch of engineers by guiding them through our dev processes and best practices. You’re also expected to support existing functionalities and to build out new features which are part of the Development Roadmap.

About the team:

PayU Finance is the credit and lending arm of the PayU brand (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Prosus group. Previously Naspers group) headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. PayU Finance India has disbursed about 20 billion loans to date by volume and has disbursed more than $280 million in consumer credit. PayU Finance provides consumers with easy access to affordable short-term loans up to INR 5 lacs that can be availed in the form of personal loans, point of sale EMI, and express loans.

PayU Finance operates under two brands - LazyPay and PaySense with a focus on Buy now Pay later and personal loan products.

Excited yet? Continue reading to find out more about the role:

What you’ll be doing:

• Understand business requirements and identify best approach to serve the requirement without risking system’s conceptual sanity.
• Ensure adoption and adherence of agreed upon coding practices within the team.
• Uphold the sanity and sanctity of owned systems.
• Apply knowledge of accepted design and architectural practices to evolve systems both in concept and in performance.
• Optimise flows within systems for better performance in response times and memory consumption.
• Tear down unused flows and concepts to make way for the new and evolved ones.

What are we looking for?

• Someone who takes ownership and believes in seeing through tasks to its completion despite facing any challenge.
• Someone who is not averse to learning and growth and has an open mind about inputs/suggestions from any stakeholder.

Bonus point if you have:

• Experience in the Fintech domain and/ or B2C product experience
• An engineering degree in Computer Science (or) software development experience
• Worked on products with a massive user scale - 1 Mn+ DAUs especially

What we offer

• A positive, get-things-done workplace
• A dynamic, constantly evolving space (change is par for the course – important you are comfortable with this)
• An inclusive environment that ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions.
• Ability to learn cutting edge concepts and innovation in an agile start-up environment with a global scale
• Access to 5000+ training courses accessible anytime/anywhere to support your growth and development (Corporate with top learning partners like Harvard, Coursera, Udacity)