Software Engineer 3-5 Years @ PhonePe
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About PhonePe
PhonePe Limited is a leading digital payments company headquartered in India. With over 600 million registered users and a vast network of over 40 million merchants, PhonePe processes more than 330 million transactions daily. The company’s product suite spans financial services like Insurance, Lending, and Wealth, plus consumer tech ventures.
Culture
At PhonePe, you are empowered to own your work from day one. The team emphasizes creativity, trust, and a go-getter attitude. Employees solve complex problems, often building frameworks from scratch while focusing on rapid execution and product-driven thinking.
Challenges
Engineers at PhonePe face challenges such as building for scale, rapid iterative development, and ensuring a customer-centric approach while maintaining security, stability, and automation.
Role: Software Engineer 3-5 Years
You will build robust and scalable web applications, design abstractions, and drive solutions for high-level business and technical problems. The role involves:
- Developing web-based applications with scalability in mind.
- Establishing separations of concerns through abstractions and contracts.
- Engaging in high-level design, functional modeling, and module breakdown.
- Performance tuning in large scale distributed systems.
- Mentoring junior team members and leading medium-sized projects.
You are expected to have extensive programming experience in at least one language (Java, C, or C++), strong skills in object-oriented design, multi-threading, and concurrency. Familiarity with both SQL (MySQL) and NoSQL databases, Test Driven Development, and experience in a fast-paced startup environment are essential.
Additional Skills
- Design and architecture of subsystems.
- Breaking down larger problems into manageable components.
- Creating clear technical documentation.
Benefits
PhonePe offers a comprehensive benefits package including insurance, wellness programs, parental support, mobility benefits, retirement benefits, and other perks like higher education assistance and car leases.
Key skills/competency
- Scalability
- Web Applications
- Object-oriented Design
- Multi-threading
- Performance Tuning
- Distributed Systems
- Design Patterns
- Full Lifecycle Development
- Problem Solving
- Technical Mentoring
How to Get Hired at PhonePe
🎯 Tips for Getting Hired
- Research PhonePe's culture: Understand their mission and recent achievements.
- Customize your resume: Highlight large-scale system experience.
- Emphasize technical skills: Demonstrate object-oriented design and concurrency expertise.
- Prepare for interviews: Focus on system design and scalability.