Software Development Lead

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)