National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)
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Senior Associate IMPS, AEPS and NETC Design and Development
National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)
Senior Associate IMPS, AEPS and NETC Design and Development
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Leads end-to-end design, delivery, operation, and enhancement of high-volume IMPS, AEPS, NETC, and CTS payment platforms. Builds resilient, secure, low-latency distributed systems and APIs, drives performance and scalability improvements, manages API governance, supports regulatory compliance, and establishes responsible AI-assisted engineering practices. Mentors engineers and promotes automation, DevOps, and engineering best practices.
We are seeking a Fullstack Application Engineer (with AI Capabilities) 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI) Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND Office
8th Level, VBC Solitaire,, 47 & 49 Bazullah Road, T. Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600 017,
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