PhonePe is Hiring Software Engineer- Backend (DevX Team) 2024/25
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PhonePe Hiring Freshers for Software Engineer- Backend (DevX Team)
Candidates from multiple batches are eligible for this role. Below are the detailed eligibility criteria and application process.
Job Responsibilities
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!
DevX roadmap is being executed with contributions from teams all over the org, and we built several tools and systems that make our day better. To name a few – workflow apps (Kudos, CiBot, JiraBot) over our tools(slack, Jira, Gitlab) and comprehensive platforms like Autopsy 2.0, FrontPage that solve org level problems. To deliver high impact and rise to the challenges of our roadmap and charter, and to ensure consistent execution, we are establishing a centralized DevX team. This team will consist of dedicated engineers working full-time on DevX projects.
What will you find:
Exciting impactful work that solves the day to day problems of engineers.
Opportunity to work closely with all teams across the organization, and work on org-level problem statements.
Work with a wide range of tools and tech stack both on backend and frontend.
Opportunity to understand, evaluate widely adopted engineering processes and tools in the industry and customize, build and deploy them for the Phonepe ecosystem.
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.
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.
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
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.