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Technical Lead - Backend About Us: Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology. About the role: We are looking for a Tech Lead for the Gold Tech team to drive technical direction, architecture, and delivery of Paytm Digital Gold — a high-scale bullion platform serving consumer and merchant use cases at lakhs+ rpm. This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership — you will architect solutions, unblock the team, own critical money-path reliability, and partner with Product and Engineering leadership on roadmap and execution. We are building reliable, high-availability financial products and need a Tech Lead who can own modules end-to-end, raise the bar on code quality, and mentor junior engineers. Key Responsibilities: ● Define and evolve technical architecture for Gold services — scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability. ● Lead design and implementation of high-availability, high-volume transactional systems. ● Own end-to-end delivery of major initiatives — breakdown, estimation, risk management, and production rollout. ● Set engineering standards: code quality, review practices, testing strategy, observability, and incident response. ● Drive cross-service integration design. ● Guide the team on Kafka event design, scheduler orchestration, CDC pipelines, and data consistency patterns. ● Mentor and grow engineers (SSE and below); conduct reviews, pair on complex problems, and build team capability. ● Contribute hands-on to critical modules; unblock the team on complex bugs, performance issues, and production fires. ● Represent Gold Tech in architecture reviews, tech debt prioritization, and platform-wide initiatives. Skills Required: ●

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role We’re looking for a Solutions Architect to help build and define this function at Synthesia. This is a critical role - you’ll shape how we partner with customers to drive adoption, value, and measurable business impact.You ’ll work across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to design solutions that unlock value at scale. This is not just implementation - it’s about architecting customer success , proving what’s possible, and accelerating customers toward full platform maturity.You will be both strategic advisor and technical architect , helping customers: Make the right technical decisions Deploy the product and integrations successfully Operationalize change and scale Connect use cases to business outcomes This role blends technical hands-on depth, commercial awareness, executive influence, and platform thinking. What you’ll do Lead customer implementations end-to-end , ensuring adoption, measurable outcomes, and long-term scalability. Design architectures that map Synthesia’s capabilities to high-value customer use cases . Partner with Sales on solution scoping, proposals, API demos, and deal strategy . Build proofs of concept to demonstrate the art of the possible and accelerate c

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations. Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow. About the role We’re looking for a Solutions Architect to help build and define this function at Synthesia. This is a critical role - you’ll shape how we partner with customers to drive adoption, value, and measurable business impact.You’ll work across Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to design solutions that unlock value at scale. This is not just implementation - it’s about architecting customer success , proving what’s possible, and accelerating customers toward full platform maturity.You will be both strategic advisor and technical architect , helping customers: Make the right technical decisions Deploy the product and integrations successfully Operationalize change and scale Connect use cases to business outcomes This role blends technical hands-on depth, commercial awareness, executive influence, and platform thinking. What you’ll do Lead customer implementations end-to-end , ensuring adoption, measurable outcomes, and long-term scalability. Design architectures that map Synthesia’s capabilities to high-value customer use cases . Partner with Sales on solution scoping, proposals, API demos, and deal strategy . Build proofs of concept to demonstrate the art of the possible and accelerate cu

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Overview At Okta, we're building a world where anyone can safely use any technology, and, within Okta Platform R&D, we're specifically focused on protecting the future of work. We bring simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, promising to not only protect the identities of our customers' workforce and users, but to ask, "what more can we make possible?" As a Senior Principal Product Design, you are the lead designer for the entire Okta platform. You ensure that all our products work together as one cohesive, simple, and secure experience. You will define the design vision, set company-wide standards, and influence high-level strategy alongside executive leadership. Where Principal Product Designers own the UX strategy within product and portfolio areas, you'll own the design architecture that connects them at the Okta-wide level, setting the innovation agenda, establishing standards across portfolios, and ensuring that Okta's products define what great identity experiences look like, both inside our walls and in the industry. This role sits at the intersection of design craft and strategic leadership. You'll work across R&D organizations, partnering with product and engineering leadership to make decisions that have broad, lasting impact on how millions of users navigate, understand, use, and trust Okta's products. Finer print This role shapes the highest-order design strategy across Okta's full product portfolio. You will l

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! About the Role We are seeking a seasoned Manager, Software Engineering with 12+ years of experience to lead our Database Engineering and Cloud Infrastructure team. In this role, you will lead a team of high-performing engineers responsible for architecting, scaling, and optimizing multi-cloud relational and in-memory database platforms. You will bridge technical execution, engineering leadership, and strategic infrastructure planning across AWS and Azure environments. Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership & Architecture Lead the architectural design and operations of enterprise-grade, multi-cloud relational databases across AWS (RDS PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora) and Azure (Database for PostgreSQL/MySQL, Azure SQL Managed Instance). Drive high-availability architecture strategies, including Multi-AZ deployments, auto-failover groups, read replica scaling, and cross-region disaster recovery (DR). Oversee zero-downtime operations, including major-version engine upgrades, schema migrations, and blue/green deployment strategies. In-Memory Infrastructure & Open-Source Strategy Manage scale operations for in-memory datastores (AWS ElastiCache, Azure Cache for Redis), focusing on cluster mode operations, eviction policies, and persistence tuning. Spearhead open-source caching initiatives and migration pathways from Redis to Valkey (e.g., AWS ElastiCache for Valkey) using zero-downtime tools like RedisShake to ensure open-source license compliance and optimize cloud spend. Aut

Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. Location- Chennai Team: Engineering Enablement Group As a Senior Software Engineer in our Engineering Enablement Group, you will lead the re-design and evolution of our Mobile Branding framework — the system that enables customers to create custom-branded versions of the Appian mobile application for both iOS and Android. You will drive the architectural modernization of the end-to-end branding pipeline, from the customer-facing Forum application and provisioning tools to the backend build service running on Mac EC2 runners in AWS. By leveraging modern microservices, CI/CD automation, and cloud-native infrastructure, you will transform the current system into a more reliable, scalable, and maintainable platform that reduces manual intervention and accelerates customer delivery. We are looking for a technical leader who can bridge the gap between complex Ruby/Bash-based tooling, Appian process models, and AWS infrastructure to deliver a seamless mobile branding experience. Primary Qualifications: 6-9 Strong working experience with Android and iOS frameworks and mobile application development workflows. Familiarity with mobile build systems (Fastlane, Xcode, Gradle) and code-signing workflows. Experience with proficiency in Python, with experience in Ruby, Bash, or Go being a plus. Advanced experience with AWS infrastructure (S3, Lambda, EC2) and CI/CD pipeline design. Strong end-to-end knowledge of pipeline creation, deployment automation, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform). Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and performanc

Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. What you’ll do Responsibilities Lead the technical design and architecture of major platform initiatives, author design documents and build consensus across engineering teams. Define technical roadmaps for complex, multi-quarter projects that span multiple teams. Make critical architectural decisions for company documentation infrastructure, balancing scalability, reliability, and developer experience. Evaluate and set direction for integrating emerging technologies, including AI/LLM capabilities, into company documentation platforms and authoring tools. Establish and evolve engineering standards, best practices and technical guidelines for the team and broader organization. Partner with engineering teams across the company to understand documentation needs and design integrated solutions. Design, build and maintain scalable, reliable and performant services and systems. Contribute high-quality code across the full stack and navigate codebases with different languages and tools. Debug and resolve complex production issues and improve system reliability. Take ownership of system health and incident response. Who you are Minimum requirements Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related field, plus four (4) years of experience in Software Engineering. Must have four (4) years of experience in each of the following: - Working in a full stack environment with a foc

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary We are seeking a highly experienced Principal / Director-level Full-Stack Software Development Engineer to join our Digital Caremark organization and lead the architecture, design, and delivery of next-generation digital solutions. This role spans AI-enabled applications, scalable digital platforms, and enterprise integrations that power critical healthcare and pharmacy experiences. This is a senior technical leadership role for a hands-on engineer who can operate across the full stack—from intuitive front-end applications to resilient backend services—while setting architectural direction, influencing engineering standards, and mentoring teams. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise, platform thinking, and strong collaboration skills to build secure, scalable, API-first solutions in a highly regulated environment. Key Responsibilities: Architecture & System Design • Define and drive architecture for large-scale distributed systems and digital platforms • Lead design reviews and set architecture standards and best practices • Champion API-first, microservices, and event-driven architecture patterns • Ensure systems meet scalability, reliability, security, and compliance requirements • Balance performance, cost, and speed in technical decision-making Fu

About Ubiquiti At Ubiquiti Inc., we create technology platforms for Businesses, Smart Homes, and Internet Service Providers, driven by our goal to connect everyone, everywhere. To date, Ubiquiti has shipped over 100 million devices worldwide, from ISP networking products to next generation of IT solutions. Our growth is made possible by the dedicated team of hundreds behind the scenes. From software developers and product managers to designers and strategists, Team UI is driven to achieve our common goal: Rethinking IT. At Ubiquiti, you’ll heighten your potential and broaden your horizons - all while shaping the future of connectivity. Responsibilities Lead hardware circuit design, schematic capture, and layout review for next-generation, high-density, and high-throughput networking platforms. Evaluate and integrate advanced switching architectures, management subsystems, and cutting-edge high-speed interconnect technologies. Drive hardware architecture design, system bring-up, high-speed signal integrity (SI) validation, and root-cause failure analysis. Partner with mechanical, thermal, and power engineering teams to address challenges related to high power density, thermal dissipation, and system-level reliability. Own BOM structure and support factory deployment to ensure seamless transition of high-layer-count PCBAs from NPI to mass production. Collaborate with cross-functional software, firmware, QA, and compliance teams throughout the entire product lifecycle. Q ualifications Bachelor’s degree or above in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline. 5+ years of hands-on experience in high-complexity system-level hardware design, ideally focused on enterprise-grade networking or high-performance infrastructure equipment. Deep technical understanding of high-speed Ethernet design, high-speed differential signals (advanced SerDes, PCIe, multi-gigabit/ultra-high-speed interfaces), and high-density PCB design rules. Practical experience with complex power d

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft is a global company that connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities. Our drivers and passengers entrust Lyft with their personal information and travel details to get where they are going and expect us to keep that data safe. Lyft's Privacy team is composed of engineers and analysts dedicated to ensuring appropriate data protections are applied to our drivers' and passengers' data. Our goal is to make privacy the default setting for our internal engineers and our customers. We help design architectures, build a scalable data platform, and define policies to reduce the exposure of user data and ensure appropriate privacy and security protections are applied across the company. We are looking for a highly motivated, collaborative, team-focused and technically strong Software Engineer to join our Privacy team. As a member of this team, you will design and build systems that make privacy the default at Lyft. Every day, you'll partner with engineering, product, legal, and compliance stakeholders on high-impact projects — from building data redaction pipelines to enabling users to exercise their privacy rights to deploying data management systems across a diverse set of Lyft services. You'll bring strong engineering instincts, a passion for privacy, and the ability to lead large projects from idea to execution. Responsibilities: Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code Promote appropriate tech and engineering best practices Partner with teams across Lyft on organizational privacy initiatives Partner with senior engineers to design, build, and maintain systems that enhance privacy across the organization Independently lead tasks from idea to execution Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Parti

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft is a global company that connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities. Our drivers and passengers entrust Lyft with their personal information and travel details to get where they are going and expect us to keep that data safe. Lyft's Privacy team is composed of engineers and analysts dedicated to ensuring appropriate data protections are applied to our drivers' and passengers' data. Our goal is to make privacy the default setting for our internal engineers and our customers. We help design architectures, build a scalable data platform, and define policies to reduce the exposure of user data and ensure appropriate privacy and security protections are applied across the company. We are looking for a highly motivated, collaborative, team-focused and technically strong Senior Software Engineer to join our Privacy team. As a member of this team, you will design and build systems that make privacy the default at Lyft. Every day, you'll partner with engineering, product, legal, and compliance stakeholders on high-impact projects — from building data redaction pipelines to enabling users to exercise their privacy rights to deploying data management systems across a diverse set of Lyft services. You'll bring strong engineering instincts, a passion for privacy, and the ability to lead large projects from idea to execution. Responsibilities: Design, build, and maintain systems that enhance privacy across the organization Independently lead large projects from idea to execution Advocate for user privacy throughout the organization, consulting engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle and escalating potential privacy concerns Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality

OUR MISSION At Redwood, we empower our customers with lights-out automation for their mission-critical business processes. ABOUT US Redwood Software is the leader in full stack automation fabric solutions for mission-critical business processes. With the first SaaS-based composable automation platform specifically built for ERP, we believe in the transformative power of automation. Our unparalleled solutions empower you to orchestrate, manage and monitor your workflows across any application, service or server — in the cloud or on premises — with confidence and control. CORE VALUES One Team. One Redwood Make Your Own Weather Obsess over Customer Success Work the Problem Be Curious Own the Outcome Respect Each Other YOUR IMPACT We are looking for a Principal Engineer, Products & Platforms to join our Product engineering team to provide technical leadership across Redwood’s Workload Automation Platform, defining architecture, driving modernization, and influencing engineering strategy across multiple teams. You will be instrumental in the design, development, and enhancement of our platform, building high-quality, scalable, and secure software that powers enterprise data exchange for more than 1,000 customers worldwide. As a Principal Engineer, you will: Technical Leadership & Architecture: Define the path forward for complex engineering problems, establish best practices, lead design review and technology decisions, and mentor the team to excel, while driving the architecture, security, compliance, and observability of our Java/Spring Boot microservices. Platform and Infrastructure Ownership: Drive the deep understanding, architecture, and evolution of our core platform and infrastructure, focusing on resilience, communication between components, and scalability. Cross-Team Collaboration: Facilitate and drive cross-team collaboration with Product, QA, and other engineering groups to ensure end-to-end alignment and successful product deliv

About Sentry Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future. About the role The Events Analytics Platform (EAP) team is responsible for the infrastructure that powers all of Sentry's time-series data and searching capabilities across billions of events with sub-second latency. We started this initiative by building Snuba, the primary storage and query service for Sentry's event data powered by ClickHouse, and we are now focused on unlocking deeper visibility and reporting across the terabytes of event data our users generate. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead efforts to push the boundaries of data visibility at Sentry. You will do this by expanding the capabilities of our search infrastructure, building new capabilities on top of our state-of-the-art storage layer and increasing the performance and integrity of Sentry’s core data services. You will also help shape Infrastructure's technical direction at Sentry and collaborate with Product and other Engineering teams to turn that vision into a reality. If you want to solve the hard problems that come with scaling event data into the petabyte range, this could be the job for you. In this role you will: Expand EAP's ability to deliver data at world-class speed and reliability. Architect and automate services and systems to scale reliably under growing demand. Make architectural trade-offs that balance product requirements with engineering constraints. Maintain and grow the team's code quality initiatives by regularly reviewing code and contributing to design decisions. Lead design and discussions around deliverables the team is working towards. Improve the maintainability and developer experience of the codebases EAP owns. Exa

About Sentry Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice, so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building. Trusted by 200,000+ organizations, Sentry is today’s application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future. About the role The Events Analytics Platform (EAP) team is responsible for the infrastructure that powers all of Sentry's time-series data and searching capabilities across billions of events with sub-second latency. We started this initiative by building Snuba, the primary storage and query service for Sentry's event data powered by ClickHouse, and we are now focused on unlocking deeper visibility and reporting across the terabytes of event data our users generate. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead efforts to push the boundaries of data visibility at Sentry. You will do this by expanding the capabilities of our search infrastructure, building new capabilities on top of our state-of-the-art storage layer and increasing the performance and integrity of Sentry’s core data services. You will also help shape Infrastructure's technical direction at Sentry and collaborate with Product and other Engineering teams to turn that vision into a reality. If you want to solve the hard problems that come with scaling event data into the petabyte range, this could be the job for you. In this role you will: Expand EAP's ability to deliver data at world-class speed and reliability. Architect and automate services and systems to scale reliably under growing demand. Make architectural trade-offs that balance product requirements with engineering constraints. Maintain and grow the team's code quality initiatives by regularly reviewing code and contributing to design decisions. Lead design and discussions around deliverables the team is working towards. Improve the maintainability and developer experience of the codebases EAP owns. Exa

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. The Cortex CoWork team is defining the future of AI for enterprise data. Our mission is to transform how the world’s largest enterprises interact with their data through flagship products like Snowflake (CoWork) Intelligence . As a Principal AI Engineer , you will be a technical North Star for our AI initiatives. You won't just execute on a roadmap; you will help define it. You will tackle the most complex, "frontier" problems in agentic reasoning, NL-to-SQL, and enterprise-scale RAG, ensuring our AI products are not only innovative but fundamentally reliable and scalable for the Fortune 500. What you will do in this role: Technical Strategy & Architecture: Define the long-term technical vision for Snowflake Intelligence. Lead the architectural design of multi-agent systems, complex tool-use frameworks, and self-correcting NL-to-SQL engines. Drive Industry-Leading Reliability: Move beyond simple evals to build world-class, automated "hill-climbing" infrastructure. You will establish the methodology for how Snowflake measures and guarantees LLM performance across diverse customer schemas. Cross-Functional Influence: Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to align AI capabilities with business goals. You will bridge the gap between Research (modeling) and Product