Ayush Jain

Director of Engineering

Greater Delhi, Delhi, India8 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a team of 8+ engineers in critical platform development.
Improved payment success rate from 71% to 84%.
Achieved INR 40L+/month cost savings through optimizations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech professional with strong backend and frontend development expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Node.jsReact NativeData StructuresJavascript

Other Skills

MongoDBMySQLAndroidiOSTypeScriptPythonRuby on RailsGitLaTeXRubyProgrammingCC++HTMLDatabases

About

Engineering Manager with 9 years of experience leading 8+ engineers to build and scale mission-critical platforms across India and international markets. Owning vision, roadmap, execution and delivery for payments, refunds, payouts, lead pricing, and fraud/risk - improving success rate from 71% to 84% and driving INR 40L+/month cost savings. Strong in people management, hiring, mentoring, system design, and stakeholder management. Looking to align myself with a fast-paced organization that gives me opportunities to grow and create value.

Experience

8 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Urban company

4 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos

Node.jsMongoDBMySQLReact NativeAndroidiOS+2

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Architected UC’s payments + payouts backend platform handling 100% transaction traffic across India, UAE, KSA and Singapore.
Built payments micro-frontends from scratch on UC’s in-house platform (Orion), achieving feature + UX parity across Customer and Partner apps on Android, iOS, mobile web and desktop web.
Migrated from Juspay (3rd-party orchestrator) to an in-house payment gateway router by integrating multiple PGs and implementing real-time health tracking (EWM-based SR), enabling dynamic routing and driving ~INR 8L/month savings with stable SR.
Designed and delivered a real-time fraud detection & prevention platform (Pinot + Snowflake) with a customer “Karma Score” and automated risk tiers; implemented rules for burst activity, device/instrument sharing, agent–customer collusion and payout anomalies, reducing losses by ~18% (~INR 10L/month).
Rolled out checkout conversion improvements (Native OTP, auto OTP read, CVV-less, tokenization, downtime alerts), improving India payment success rate from 71% → 84%.
Automated customer payouts via ICICI NEFT APIs (later extended to UPI), improving payout SR by ~10%, improving refund SLA by ~75% vs NEFT, and reducing finance ticket handling time by ~10%.
Optimized international stack by onboarding low-cost PGs (HyperPay, Noon) and migrating SG/KSA from Checkout V1 → V2 (Interchange++), reducing average PG cost by ~20% (~INR 22L/month).
Built Pay-Upfront, Redeem-Later and Auto-Renewal (Card/ApplePay/UPI mandates), enabling launch of Routines and Bundles across geographies; contributing >50% of international revenue.
Revamped lead pricing from static → dynamic partner-personalized pricing using metadata like vehicle type and engagement model, improving profitability and supporting partner acquisition.

Node.jsMongoDBMySQLReact NativeAndroidiOS+2

SDE-3

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

Recognitions:
UC People's Choice Award May 2022

SDE-2

Nov 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

Recognitions:
UC Extra Mile Award Oct 2021
UC Engineering Code Reviewer Award June 2021
UC Ninja Jan 2021
Key Projects:
Changed the way UC recovers commission from partners. Moved the system from a pre-paid credit system to recovering commission from triweekly payouts.

Shipsy

Senior Software Engineer

May 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

Managed a 3-person POD as part of the EXIM (EXport - IMport) vertical which delivered ingenious features simplifying freight transport management for all the stakeholders. Was awarded as a Star Performer for leading the development of various critical modules like Rate Procurement (Quotations & Bidding), Rate Finalisation (Booking) and Shipment Execution.

Centurylink

Product Development & Technology Intern

Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 · 2 mos

1. Employed Spring framework to build microservices for ’Hyperion’ – an in-house company-wide application which fast-tracks an API’s cumbersome journey to production. Increased code coverage through automated unit tests written with Mockito – a mocking framework for Java.
2. Teamed up with DevOps engineers to realize the paramount need to migrate from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes. Developers at CenturyLink can now deploy a Docker image of the concerned service from source repository to the desired namespace through GitLab CI.
3. Engaged in discussions with third-party consultants to assess the viability of transitioning from CA gateways to Google Apigee. Built shared ﬂow to perform basic authentication (against CenturyLink LDAP), authorization (based on group membership), and veriﬁcation of digitally signed JWTs. Used openapi2apigee and Ansible to generate as well as deploy API proxies.

University of california, davis

Teaching Experience

Oct 2017 – Jun 2018 · 8 mos

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Introduction to Programming: Led discussions twice a week with an attendance of over 70 undergraduate students. Conducted weekly lab sessions, moderate the Piazza Q&A forum, grade programming assignments and midterm/final examinations.

Payu

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

1. Acquired an in-depth knowledge of Model-View-Controller frameworks, particularly Ruby on Rails.
2. Became well versed in test driven development, background job processing through Sidekiq, software version control, repository management and issue tracking using Redmine. Familiarized myself with Amazon S3, in-memory data stores such as Redis and Jenkins code deployment.
3. Overhauled the outdated yet indispensable Merchant Onboarding System. Upgraded Rails version being used to 5.1, redid legacy code, optimized database queries and implemented a slew of enhancements.
4. Worked in a team of three to build a Chargeback Management System and Lead Management System from the ground up. Entrusted with requirement elicitation, system design as well as implementation. Successfully delivered the project on time.

Samsung r&d institute

Student Trainee

Jun 2015 – Jul 2015 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

1. Automated a lines of code (LOC) calculator Java application using Microsoft Windows UI Automation Framework, Spy++ and AutoIt Window Info. Wrote a C# script to achieve the same.
2. Extracted data from Atlassian Crucible - a popular collaborative code review application, using its REST API. Used Highcharts charting library to represent this data in the form of well-defined & interactive graphs.

Accenture

Software Development Intern

Jun 2014 – Jul 2014 · 1 mo · Delhi Area, India

Built a web application to demonstrate Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) on a multi-echelon inventory system consisting of a manufacturing plant, central and regional distribution centers.