Vice President – Principal Software Engineer & Technical Lead (Payments Domain)

Single PositionExplore a Career With UsView All JobsHybridVice President – Principal Software Engineer & Technical Lead (Payments Domain)PUNE, Mahārāshtra, India No longer accepting applications.Job ID26975829Date posted06/30/2026DepartmentTechnologyVice President – Principal Software Engineer & Technical Lead (Payments Domain)Position OverviewWe are seeking a highly technical, hands-on Vice President (VP) – Principal Software Engineer & Technical Lead to drive the architecture, design, and implementation of our next-generation, high-throughput, low-latency payments platform.The payments landscape is undergoing rapid transformation, requiring systems that are not only highly secure and compliant but also exceptionally resilient and capable of processing millions of transactions with sub-second latency. This role is designed for a premier technical authority who remains deeply hands-on in coding while possessing the leadership gravitas to own critical platform components and mentor engineering teams globally.Key Responsibilities1. Technical Leadership & ArchitectureResilient Distributed Design: Architect, design, and evolve highly available, active-active, fault-tolerant distributed systems capable of handling massive transaction volumes with zero data loss.Low-Latency Optimization: Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks across the application, network, and database layers to achieve ultra-low latency processing.Cloud-Native Evolution: Drive the transition toward cloud-compatible and cloud-native architectures, ensuring applications are optimized for containerized environments (Kubernetes/OpenShift) and public/hybrid cloud deployments.Technical Governance: Define and enforce engineering standards, design patterns, and security best practices across the global payments engineering organization.2. Hands-on Engineering & DeliveryCore Development: Lead by example by writing clean, robust, maintainable, and highly optimized production-ready code in Java for core framework components and critical business logic.Prototyping & POCs: Conduct Proof of Concepts (POCs) for emerging technologies and architectural patterns to validate scalability, performance, and security assumptions.Code Quality & Reviews: Conduct rigorous, constructive code reviews, ensuring adherence to SOLID principles, security standards, and performance benchmarks.3. Global Team Ownership & MentorshipGlobal Ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of delivery for key payment modules, coordinating seamlessly across product management, operations, infrastructure, and security teams globally.Mentorship & Talent Development: Actively mentor, coach, and inspire senior and junior engineers across global hubs. Foster a culture of technical curiosity, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.Collaboration: Bridge the gap between complex business requirements and technical execution, translating product roadmaps into scalable technical designs.Required Technical Skills & Experience1. Core Technology StackJava Expertise: Deep, authoritative knowledge of Core Java (Java 17/21+), including advanced multi-threading, concurrency utilities, memory management, JVM profiling, and performance tuning.Microservices Architecture: Proven track record of designing and implementing domain-driven, loosely coupled microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, or equivalent frameworks.Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka): Extensive experience with Apache Kafka for high-throughput messaging, event streaming, partition strategies, consumer group management, and ensuring exactly-once processing semantics.NoSQL Databases (MongoDB): Strong experience with MongoDB at scale, including document modeling, indexing strategies, aggregation pipelines, sharding, replication, and performance optimization.2. Architecture & Design PatternsDistributed Systems Patterns: Practical experience implementing patterns such as CQRS, Event Sourcing, Saga Pattern, Circuit Breakers, Rate Limiting, and Outbox...