Senior Associate IMPS, AEPS and NETC Design and Development

Location
Chennai
Workplace
On-site

About this role

We are seeking a seasoned backend developer to drive the design, delivery, and continuous enhancement of IMPS / AEPS / NETC / CTS platforms.

This role involves building and managing real-time, high-volume payment systems with a strong focus on availability, resilience, security, performance, and AI-assisted engineering practices.


Job Details

  • Job Title: Senior Associate– Payment Systems
  • Division: Application Development
  • Experience: 3–6 Years
  • Education: B.E. / B.Tech / M.E. / M.Tech
  • Location: Mumbai/Chennai/Hyderabad
  • Employment Type: Full-Time (Permanent)

Your Team’s Impact

Your team will design and operate high-throughput, low-latency APIs and services processing millions of transactions daily.

Your work will directly contribute to:

  • Financial inclusion
  • System reliability and operational excellence
  • Trust in India’s digital payments ecosystem

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end delivery of IMPS/AEPS/NETC/CTS platforms
  • Drive system improvements in performance, scalability, and resilience
  • Ensure regulatory compliance and secure system design
  • Own API lifecycle management and service governance
  • Implement AI-assisted development practices responsibly
  • Define standards for AI adoption in engineering workflows
  • Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices & automation
  • Build and operate high-availability, fault-tolerant distributed systems



Requirements


  • Strong expertise in Java (Spring Boot), Microservices, Distributed Systems
  • Experience with Apache Kafka / event-driven architectures
  • Strong knowledge of databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, YugabyteDB, KDB+
  • Hands-on with AI-assisted development tools (Copilots, AI code assistants)
  • Experience in containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab)
  • Familiarity with API gateways (Kong, NGINX)
  • Strong understanding of performance tuning, concurrency, resilience patterns



Key Skills and Experience Required

  • Proven experience building large-scale payment / banking systems
  • Strong background in real-time, mission-critical applications
  • Experience managing high transaction volume systems
  • Ability to balance AI-driven productivity with engineering rigor
  • Strong leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder collaboration skills


Preferred

  • Experience in IMPS / AEPS / NETC / CTS or similar payment platforms
  • Exposure to regulatory and compliance-driven ecosystems
  • Experience in modern engineering practices and DevOps environments


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