Technical Lead | Backend, Paytm Digital Gold

This is a tech lead role on Paytm Digital Gold, a bullion platform serving consumers and merchants that the posting says runs at lakhs of requests per minute. The framing is unusually concrete for a lead role: you define and evolve the technical architecture for the Gold services, own money path reliability, unblock the team, and partner with product and engineering leadership on roadmap. It explicitly combines hands on engineering with technical leadership, and it names mentoring junior engineers rather than managing them. The stated band is six to ten years of backend engineering, of which two or more should be in a tech lead or senior individual contributor role, which is a clearer definition of the level than most postings give.

Stated requirement is 6 to 10 years of backend engineering experience, with 2+ years of that in a tech lead or senior individual contributor role. That phrasing is worth noting because it defines the lead expectation as senior IC experience rather than people management experience, which resolves the usual ambiguity around Indian tech lead titles. What you would own: technical direction, architecture and delivery for Paytm Digital Gold, a high scale bullion platform serving both consumer and merchant use cases. The posting states the platform operates at lakhs of requests per minute, which is a specific and testable scale claim rather than the usual vague one. Key responsibilities as published: define and evolve the technical architecture for the Gold services across scalability, reliability, security and maintainability; lead delivery; architect solutions and unblock the team; own critical money path reliability; raise the bar on code quality; and mentor junior engineers. It also says you would partner with product and engineering leadership on roadmap and execution, so there is a planning component beyond pure build. Honest framing: money path reliability is the phrase to pay attention to. In a gold trading product the failure modes are financial rather than cosmetic, which means change control, reconciliation and incident discipline will be tighter than in a general consumer product, and the on call expectation is likely real even though the posting does not spell it out. Ask about it. Location is Noida, on site. Good fit for a senior backend engineer with six or more years who wants architectural ownership of a complete product line and is comfortable that the product is regulated financial trading.