Backend Engineer

Bangalore, India

1.5 - 4 Years Experience

Full Time

About xPay

xPay is a Y Combinator backed international payments company trusted by enterprises across India and Southeast Asia, including public companies and several consumer brands you likely use every day.

These businesses are increasingly moving their international volumes from billion dollar giants like Stripe, PayPal, and Razorpay to xPay as we expand our footprint across 180+ countries and support 25+ currencies. Since January, we have grown 73× and now process over 1 million transactions every month.

While we have begun with inward remittances, our mission ultimately is to disrupt every cross border payment thread in a market that moves more than $200 trillion annually.

The Role

You will build backend systems that sit at the core of global money movement. The services you design will handle high scale payment flows, power mission critical operations, and form the backbone of xPay’s expanding international network. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast moving startup teams and enjoys solving deep engineering challenges with ownership and ambition.

Eligibility

  • 1.5 - 4 years of experience

  • Experience in early stages startups

  • Based in Bangalore or ready to relocate

  • Bonus: Fintech background

Tech Overview

  • Primary Language: Java

  • ⁠Framework: Spring Boot

  • Database: MongoDB


What You Will Do:

  • Build scalable backend services that power international payment processing

  • Design clean system architectures for high throughput, low latency flows

  • Collaborate with product, frontend, and infra teams to deliver features end to end

  • Strengthen reliability, observability, and operational excellence across systems

  • Debug issues in production, drive RCA, and implement long term fixe

  • ⁠Operate with strong ownership and a hunger to push the product forward

What We Are Looking For:

  • ⁠High ownership mindset with ambition to build category defining systems

  • Strong understanding of systems design fundamentals

  • Good grasp of data structures and basic algorithms

  • ⁠Ability to write clean backend LLD suited for scale

  • Comfort working in fast iteration cycles and solving ambiguous problems

Why Join:

Join a high intensity founding team building the core rails for how Indian businesses move money globally. You will work on deep engineering problems, own critical systems, and shape the future of cross border payments at scale.