Software Development Engineer 3
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 11, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 10, 2026.
At Cashfree Payments, we’re not just shaping the future of payments-we’re moving fast to scale businesses at every stage, with deep expertise in powering India’s D2C and e-commerce growth.
Founded in 2015, we process transactions worth $80B annually and are trusted by more than 800,000 businesses. Authorised by the Reserve Bank of India, we are one of the first entities to receive critical licences like PA-PG, PA-CB and PPI in the sector. We enable seamless collections, payouts, identity verification, and fraud detection.
We are backed by Silicon Valley investor Y Combinator, Apis Partners, Krafton Inc, State Bank of India (SBI), and were incubated by PayPal.
Required skills/experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or a related discipline) as well as work experience of 5+ years.
Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, storage technologies, distributed computing, operating systems, etc.
Experience in designing and implementing scalable solutions in a large-scale distributed environment.
Robust and defensive coding skills using Java/Golang or any other Object-Oriented Programming Language.
Strong knowledge of RDBMS and any other NoSQL database technologies (Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Dynamo, etc. ).
Who you are
Design and develop robust services in coordination with front-end developers, ensuring the production and development of high-quality and well-tested code
Design, develop and test features alongside other technical departments
Lead the department in the design, development, deployment, and operation of services used by our users
Optimize APIs for any applications while creating and maintaining unit tests for new code as well as fix defects
Product Thinking: Uncover the why,challenge assumptions and turn ambiguity into simple, high-impact solutions that translate intent into action.
Innovation: Challenge the status quo, simplify complexity, embrace new technologies, and turn curiosity → experiment → insight → solution into elegant, reliable, scalable systems that create lasting value.
AI Engineering: Build practical expertise in AI, LLMs, agents, automation, and emerging technologies to transform engineering workflows with context-aware, evidence-based, reliable, validated, and safely controlled AI solutions.
Participate in the continuous integration of automated builds and deployments, ensuring that deliverables meet functional and design requirements and specifications of the site/software. Work with engineering leadership in solving and architecting solutions for challenging or complex site/software development issues.
Take initiatives in developing and maintaining integrations of best practices within the backend department