Latest Job Updates – July 2025
PhonePe, one of India’s leading digital payments and financial services platforms with 500 M+ users and 37 M merchants, is hiring for a Software Engineer to join its Bangalore tech team. You’ll design and develop large-scale, web-based distributed systems that scale to millions. This role demands expert-level skills in Java, C, or C++, strong software architecture sense, and a passion for performance optimization and automation. Ideal candidates will thrive in fast-paced, ownership-driven environments and collaborate closely with product managers to build impactful financial products.
🔹 Job Overview
- Role: Software Engineer
- Company: PhonePe
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Experience Required: 9+ years in software development
- Education: B.Tech/M.Tech/PhD in CS or equivalent
- Salary: Not Disclosed
- Slug: software-engineer-phonepe-core-platform
🔹 Job Description
As a Software Engineer, you will build robust, scalable web applications, focusing on clean abstractions and separation of concerns. You’ll contribute to platform design and architecture, perform impact analysis on modular upgrades, and implement performance tuning in distributed systems. The role involves designing with consideration for multi-threading, concurrency, and object-oriented principles, alongside test-driven development and seamless database (MySQL, HBase, Elasticsearch, Aerospike) integrations. You’ll mentor team members, collaborate with product teams, and drive medium-sized project execution.
🔹 Candidate Profile
Key Skills:
- Expert in Java, C, or C++
- Deep understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and design patterns
- Experience with TDD, unit-testing, and performance tuning
- Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases
- Strong problem-solving, architectural thinking, and collaboration skills
Preferred Profile:
- Track record of architecting or optimizing scalable systems
- Startup mindset—owning large features end to end
- Excellent communication, openness to feedback, and mentorship experience
🔹 About PhonePe Group
PhonePe is India’s top digital payments platform, enabling 500 M users and 37 M merchants to transact across 99% of postal codes. Expanding beyond payments into insurance, mutual funds, stock broking, lending, hyperlocal commerce, and localized app stores, PhonePe aims to unlock inclusive financial services for every Indian.
🔹 How to Apply
- Highlight extensive experience in Java/C++/C and scalable system design
- Showcase projects involving multi-threading, distributed systems, and performance engineering
- Apply via PhonePe’s Greenhouse portal (Job Token: 5943813003)
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