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Key Responsibilities
Payment Systems Architecture & Development
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant payments infrastructure capable of handling millions of transactions per day.
- Integrate and manage multiple payment gateways (Razorpay, Stripe, PayU, Paytm, Cashfree, PhonePe, etc.).
- Architect systems for high availability, low-latency routing, retries, idempotency, and reconciliation.
- Own end-to-end transaction lifecycle – authorization, capture, refunds, settlements, chargebacks.
Systems Reliability & Scaling
- Build robust transaction pipelines with monitoring, alerting, fallback mechanisms, fraud detection hooks, and circuit breakers.
- Optimize backend services for performance, cost, observability, and reliability.
- Drive architecture decisions for scaling payments globally (multi-region, multi-gateway routing).
Compliance, Security & Governance
- Implement best practices for tokenization, encryption, secure key management.
- Ensure compliance with RBI guidelines, KYC flows, audit logs, data privacy and regulatory requirements.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with product, finance, risk, compliance, and customer support teams.
- Collaborate with data, analytics, and fraud teams to build transaction insights and ML-based risk models.
- Mentor backend engineers and drive engineering excellence in the team.
Required Technical Skills
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience with at least 2+ years in payments systems.
- Strong expertise in payment gateways, transaction flows, settlements, reconciliation, and payout systems.
- Solid programming skills in any backend language
- Hands-on experience with:
- Microservices architecture
- REST/gRPC APIs
- Message queues/streams (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Celery)
- SQL and NoSQL databases
- Strong understanding of:
- Idempotency, retries, ordering, distributed locks
- High-performance transactional systems
- Event-driven architectures
- Basic Knowledge of services on cloud such as:
- Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch
- Deep knowledge of payments lifecycle: auth, capture, refund, settlement, chargeback.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with UPI, wallets, subscription billing, mandate flows, payouts.
- Understanding of fraud detection systems, rule engines, velocity checks.
- Experience designing reconciliation systems and ledger systems.
- Exposure to fintech, OTT, e-commerce, or high-volume consumer apps.
- Contributions to open-source fintech/payments frameworks.
Preferred Tools & Technologies
- Backend: Python(Django/Flask/FastAPI)
- Streaming: Kafka, SQS, Celery
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB/DocumentDB, Redis
- Version Control: Git
Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.
Why Join Us?
Opportunity to work in a fast-growing audio, video and content platform.
Exposure to multi-language marketing and global user base strategies.
A collaborative work environment with a data-driven and innovative approach.
Competitive salary and growth opportunities in marketing and growth strategy.
About KUKU
Founded in 2018, KUKU is India’s leading storytelling platform, offering a vast digital library of audio stories, short courses, and microdramas. KUKU aims to be India’s largest cultural exporter of stories, culture and history to the world with a firm belief in “Create In India, Create For The World”.
We deliver immersive entertainment and education through our OTT platforms: Kuku FM, Guru, Kuku TV, and more. With a mission to provide high-quality, personalized stories across genres from entertainment across multiple formats and languages, KUKU continues to push boundaries and redefine India’s entertainment industry.
🌐 Website: www.kukufm.com
📱 Android App: Google Play
📱 iOS App: App Store
🔗 LinkedIn: KUKU
📢 Ready to make an impact? Apply now!
Skills: payout systems,payments lifecycle,payment gateways,sql and nosql databases,rest apis,microservices architecture
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