Software Development Lead

Work type: Full time · Department: Engineering · Workplace: On-Site

Bellandur, Karnataka, India

At Cashfree Payments, we scale businesses swiftly, leveraging expertise in India's D2C and e-

commerce growth.

Founded in 2015, we process transactions worth $80B annually and are trusted by more than 800,000 businesses. Authorised by the Reserve Bank of India, we are one of the first entities to receive critical licences like PA-PG, PA-CB and PPI in the sector. We enable seamless collections, payouts, identity verification, and fraud detection. 

We are backed by Silicon Valley investor Y Combinator, Apis Partners, Krafton Inc, State Bank of India (SBI), and were incubated by PayPal. 

Responsibilities:

  • Writing high-quality code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems of varying complexity and scope

  • Work on the web application layer, backend, systems, streaming and other associated technology to build our product and components

  • Establish and implement best practices across an engineering team to ensure high quality and consistent agile delivery

  • Scale distributed applications, make architectural tradeoffs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality

  • Optimize APIs for any applications while creating and maintaining unit tests for new code as well as fix defects

  • Participate in the continuous integration of automated builds and deployments, ensuring that deliverables meet functional and design requirements and specifications of the site/software

  • Work with engineering leadership in solving and architecting solutions for challenging or complex site/software development issues

 

Requirements:

  • 6+ yrs of relevant hands-on software engineering experience in designing, building and testing Java EE applications & 2+ years of experience being lead developer or technical lead or similar position where you lead a team of developers/engineers

  • In-depth knowledge of popular Java frameworks like Spring MVC/Spring Boot

  • Experience with Object-Oriented Design (OOD)

  • Product Thinking: Uncover the why,challenge assumptions and turn ambiguity into simple, high-impact solutions that translate intent into action.

  • Innovation: Challenge the status quo, simplify complexity, embrace new technologies, and turn curiosity → experiment → insight → solution into elegant, reliable, scalable systems that create lasting value.

  • AI Engineering: Build practical expertise in AI, LLMs, agents, automation, and emerging technologies to transform engineering workflows with context-aware, evidence-based, reliable, validated, and safely controlled AI solutions.

  • Knowledge of working on cloud technologies and exposure of AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, etc.

  • Experience in designing and implementing scalable solutions in a large-scale distributed environment

  • Strong knowledge of RDBMS and any other NoSQL database technologies (Mysql, MongoDB)


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