Frontend - Technical Lead - Insurance Tech

Frontend - Technical Lead

About Us: Paytm is India’s leading digital payments and financial services company, which is focused on driving consumers and merchants to its platform by offering them a variety of payment use cases. Paytm provides consumers with services like utility payments and money transfers, To merchants, Paytm offers acquiring devices like Soundbox, EDC, QR and Payment Gateway where payment aggregation is done through PPI and also other banks’ financial instruments. To further enhance merchants’ business, Paytm offers merchants commerce services through advertising and Paytm Mini app store. Operating on this platform leverage, the company then offers credit services such as merchant loans, personal loans and BNPL, sourced by its financial partners.

About the role: The Technical Lead role in Paytm is one of the most significant and challenging role in the company. The Ideal Candidate for Team Lead role is extremely hands on and technically excellent and exhibits solid engineering principles. Someone who has what it takes to build large scale, high throughput, fault tolerant systems that are used by millions of users.

Requirements: Lead a team of 3 or more engineers that will help deliver on key business results. Demonstrate solid experience in all parts of technology stack including applications, infrastructure, performance, data and others. Ensure systems are built to scale. Be the Technical expert in the team. Should be able to evaluate multiple solution approaches and guide the team in choosing the optimal approach. Ensure Operational Excellence of your systems.

Skills that will help you succeed in this role: An ideal Technical Lead would have

6-8 years of experience in building highly scalable UI on the Web/Mobile. Javascript rockstar who appreciates the intricacies of JS as well as passionate to follow new trends in JS. In depth experience with advanced front-end frameworks (E.g. ReactJS, PReactJS, Redux, Redux saga etc) and various patterns used in frameworks. Advanced knowledge of build systems such as Webpack, rollup etc, including Linting, Minifying, code splitting etc Advanced knowledge of unit testing best practices using libraries like (testing library, jest etc..) and Continuous Integration processes (CI/CD) Experience in the design, development and use of component- based UI architectures. A strong understanding of approaches and techniques to optimise web performance Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git

Why join us Because you get an opportunity to make a difference, and have a great time doing that. You are challenged and encouraged here to do stuff that is meaningful for you and for those we serve. You should work with us if you think seriously about what technology can do for people. We are successful, and our successes are rooted in our people collective energy and unwavering focus on the customer, and that's how it will always be. Learn more about the exciting work we do in Tech by reading our Engineering blog

Compensation: If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you. With enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 21 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants – and we are committed to it. India’s largest digital lending story is brewing here. It’s your opportunity to be a part of the story! We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.