SDE 2

About Fam (previously FamPay)
Fam is India's first payments app for everyone above 11. FamApp helps make online and offline payments through UPI and FamCard. We are on a mission to raise a new, financially aware generation, and drive 250 million+ youngest users in India to kickstart their financial journey super early in their life.
Founded in 2019 by IIT Roorkee alumni, Fam is backed by some of the most respected investors around the world like Elevation Capital, Y-Combinator, Peak XV (Sequoia Capital) India, Venture Highway, Global Founder’s Capital and the likes of Kunal Shah, Amrish Rao as angel investors.
About this Role
We've got your back if you've got ours!
We are looking for builders of the 1st order who have user centric mindset and build backwards for them. You should get a rush from creating things from scratch and take pleasure in watching users try to tear it apart through sheer volume and strange, unthinkable use cases. And when it breaks, you are to the Fam's rescue! — make everything smooth, secure and stronger than ever! If you inhale resilience and exhale code, apply now!

On the Job

• As an SDE-2 at Fam, you’ll be expected to independently design and build production-ready systems, not just implement tickets.
• Solve complex engineering problems using strong data structures and algorithms
• Design clean, extensible low-level designs (LLD) with well-defined abstractions
• Write high-quality, maintainable, and testable code with speed and accuracy
• Own features end-to-end: design, development, rollout, monitoring, and iteration
• Participate actively in design reviews and code reviews
• Debug production issues and perform root-cause analysis
• Improve existing systems with a focus on correctness, performance, and scalability

Must-haves

• Required experience - 3 yrs to 5 yrs
• Excellent problem-solving skills with data structures & algorithms
• Ability to write clean, production-quality code under time constraints
• Deep hands-on experience in at least one language: Go / Python /Java
• Ability to design systems using proper abstractions (classes, interfaces, modules)
• Clear understanding of object-oriented design principles
• Comfortable discussing design trade-offs and alternatives
• Experience designing components/services—not just consuming existing ones
• Has owned features or modules from design to production
• Understands real-world engineering constraints (edge cases, failures, rollout)
• Comfortable working with existing systems and improving them meaningfully

Good to have

• Experience designing or significantly refactoring a system/component from scratch
• Exposure to scale-related concerns (performance, reliability, concurrency)
• Familiarity with distributed systems basics (APIs, queues, caching, async flows)
• Experience working on consumer-facing, high-traffic products

Why join us?

• Work with a lean team of engineers, allowing you to build services from scratch
• Opportunity to work on challenging & advanced tech
• Take full ownership of high-impact projects
• Clear path to Senior Engineering roles
• Opportunity to own larger systems and 0→1 problem spaces over time
• Strong engineering culture focused on fundamentals and impact