Headline

SDE-3 & UPI Team Lead @ Zype Ex-slice | Backend & Distributed Systems | Java · Spring Boot · Kafka · Payments | Open to Remote

About

I'm a backend engineer and team lead with 5+ years building high-throughput, regulatory-compliant systems in fintech. Today I lead the UPI team at Zype (SDE-3), owning modules like Mandates and UDIR and coordinating with NPCI on payment reliability and compliance. Before Zype, I spent ~4 years at Slice on core money-movement systems — cutting the repayment flow from ~5s to under 1s (~5x throughput), driving P0 API latency below 50ms, and leading our workflow-orchestration migration to Netflix Conductor. My toolkit: Java/Spring Boot and Node.js/NestJS, event-driven and domain-driven design, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and AWS — with a strong bias toward observability, clean architecture, and mentoring the engineers around me. I'm open to fully remote/on-site/hybrid senior/lead backend roles. If you're building payments, fintech infrastructure, or distributed systems — let's talk.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

cursor

deepseek

openai

Work experience

SDE3 at Zype, Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos, • Lead the UPI engineering team, owning development of multiple UPI modules including Mandates, UDIR, and customer-support flows; re-architected core components to improve transaction reliability and throughput, working directly with NPCI and security teams on regulatory reporting and compliance. • Architected and delivered an in-house document-signing service end-to-end — leading backend execution and cross-team integrations and ensuring production stability through monitoring and continuous performance improvements. • Owned planning and execution of a large-scale, multi-terabyte database and service migration (including a data-aggregator service) — defining timelines, planning risk mitigation, and resolving complex design challenges across multiple stakeholder teams with no disruption to production. • Delivered a complex end-to-end Interest Benefit feature — running POCs, aligning Product, Engineering, and Data teams, and owning the future enhancement roadmap. • Sustained a high engineering quality bar — keeping code-review findings, defect rates, and critical production bugs well within defined thresholds — while mentoring engineers and providing continuous technical and architectural guidance.

SDE-2 at slice, Sep 2024 - Mar 2025 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

SDE-1 at slice, Jun 2021 - Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, Jadavpur University

12th, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya - JNV