Shabir Khan

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 12 years of backend software development experience.
  • Expert in architecting scalable backend systems.
  • Proven track record in mentoring high-performing teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineering Leader in Fintech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaBackend DevelopmentMicroservicesTechnical DesignMicroservices ArchitectureAgile DeliverySoftware DevelopmentClient CoordinationCollaboration

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesChange RequestsCode Quality StandardsCode ReviewCodingDockerEnhancementsEnterprise Application DevelopmentGitGrafanaHibernateJUnitJava Database Connectivity (JDBC)Java Enterprise Edition

About

● Seasoned Engineering Leader with 12 years experience in backend software development and 3 years in engineering leadership.● Adept at building and managing high-performing software teams, architecting scalable backendsystems, delivering mission-critical solutions and aligning engineering goals with businessobjectives.● Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, ORM Framework, REST APIs, Microservices, OAuth 2.0,Relational/Non Relational Databases, Kafka, AWS Cloud Platform and DevOps best practices.● Passionate about mentoring engineers and delivering high-impact production grade software.● Technically hands-on in systems architecture, design, coding and testing.● Sound knowledge of industry best practices, good organizational and leadership skills, andproficiency in Java technologies.● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with variousstakeholders.● Adept at hiring and grooming a team of individual contributors, regular people connect, set the OKRsand goals for individuals and the team, define the individuals’ career growth plans and nurture them,performance evaluation and constructive feedback.

Experience

12 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
7 mos
Current Experience

Wex

Senior Software Development Manager

Nov 2025Present · 7 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

Paytm

Engineering Manager

Aug 2022Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

  • ● Managing a team of 10 Java backend engineers building a scalable lender integration platform to
  • enable various lender integrations for Personal Loan and Merchant Loan businesses.
  • ● Led the re-architecture of a lender integration platform, improving system scalability, extendability,
  • resiliency, maintenance and reducing overall time to ship any lender integration to production and
  • minimizing production support.
  • ● Planning end-to-end delivery of the project, managing risks, priority and resource management.
  • Monitor progress to ensure timely delivery.
  • ● Identify and mitigate potential project risks, developing contingency plans to minimize disruptions.
  • ● Collaborate with other EMs and Architects across lending tech in designing robust solutions aligned
  • with the system architecture and review design decisions.
  • ● Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to resolve conflicts, dependencies, drive issues to
  • resolution and help in achieving the delivery milestones to fulfill business objectives and thereby
  • driving organizational growth.
  • ● Hiring and mentoring engineers; introduced structured 1:1s, career ladders, enhancing team
  • capabilities and performance.
  • ● Fostering a collaborative team culture while setting clear objectives and performance expectations.
  • ● Technically grooming and guiding the engineers in the team through tech design reviews, meaningful
  • code reviews and helping them with the feedback to improve.
  • ● Enforce code quality standards and review processes according to the best practices of the industry.
  • ● Conducting daily standup, sprint planning and sprint retrospective sessions.
  • ● Building a learning and motivating culture in the team by organizing regular knowledge-sharing
  • sessions on various tech topics among the team members.
  • ● Enabling and optimizing the production system logging, observability, monitoring and
  • troubleshooting.
JavaBackend DevelopmentTeam ManagementProject DeliverySystem ArchitectureRisk Management+3

Chargebee

Principal Software Engineer

Aug 2021Aug 2022 · 1 yr · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Remote

  • ● Led a small group of engineers size 3, while handling the taxation module of the subscription
  • management SaaS product in a fast-paced backend development team.
  • ● Owned the overall taxation module in terms of BAU requirements and new tax vendor integrations.
  • ● Designed the solution for the new features of the product under the supervision of an Architect.
  • ● Coordinating with product managers in terms of getting clarity on the product features, feasibility
  • analysis and future scope.
  • ● Technically groom the team in terms of technical approach and low-level design.
  • ● Reviewing low-level design and code, mentoring the team members in their assignments.
  • ● Tech debt identification and helping EM with planning and execution.
  • ● Designing, Coding, Unit Testing, Automating Integration Tests and Deployment.
  • ● Troubleshooting and resolving complex production issues caused by technical errors.
  • ● Collaborate with various cross-functional stakeholders to resolve conflicts, dependencies and drive
  • issues to resolution.
  • ● Involved in hiring engineers and getting them onboarded into the team.
Backend DevelopmentTaxation Module ManagementTechnical DesignCode ReviewProduction Issue Resolution

Publicis sapient

Senior Associate Platform L1 / Technical Lead

May 2019Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • ● Involved in designing and building Marcus, a Digital Consumer Banking Software for the US
  • market.
  • ● Contributed to designing the microservices architecture of the system.
  • ● Worked as a techno functional specialist and led the accounts linking and money movement module.
  • ● Effort estimation of user stories in an Agile delivery model.
  • ● Designing, Coding, Unit Testing, Automating Integration Tests and Deployment.
  • ● Mentored and groomed engineers in the team.
  • ● Improved the performance issues of the system by optimizing the complex algorithms, tuning
  • database read queries, building an in-memory cache which stores frequently accessed data and
  • thereby reducing service to service and database calls.
  • ● Troubleshooting and resolving complex production issues.
  • ● Contributed to a data migration strategy from old to new core banking platform.
  • ● Interviewed engineers for hiring.
Microservices ArchitectureAgile DeliveryPerformance OptimizationMentoring

Cognizant

2 roles

Associate / Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2016May 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos · On-site

  • ● Requirement understanding, analysing, designing, coding, unit & integration testing, deployment in
  • stage and production.
  • ● Owning the responsibility of a single RFC (medium to large size product feature) delivery at a time.
  • ● Guiding junior engineers, reviewing their low level-design and code.
  • ● Co-ordinate with the client stakeholders as and when needed while working at the client location.
  • ● Conducted system functional knowledge KT sessions and thereby helped in grooming the team.
  • ● Co-ordinate with the QA team to provide support during feature and system testing.
  • ● Collaborate with the business and QA stakeholders to resolve the conflicts and dependencies.
  • ● Worked on production support and bug fixing.
Requirement AnalysisCodingTestingClient CoordinationSoftware Development

Programmer Analyst / Software Engineer

Jan 2014Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos · On-site

  • ● Worked on enhancements, change requests and small to medium-sized features development.
  • ● Designing, coding, unit & integration testing, deployment in stage and production.
  • ● Co-ordinate with the QA team to provide support during feature and system testing.
  • ● Collaborate with the team members to brainstorm any technical solution and low-level design.
  • ● Peer code reviews.
  • ● Worked on production support and bug fixing.
EnhancementsChange RequestsTestingCollaborationSoftware Development

Education

Jaipur Engineering College And Research Centre, Jaipur

B.Tech — Computer Science & Engineering

Jan 2009Jan 2013

Nalanda College, Biharsharif (Bihar)

Intermediate in Science (Senior Secondary in PCM)

Jan 2006Jan 2008

Vishwakarma High School, Nawada (Bihar)

Matriculation (Secondary)

Jan 2005Jan 2006

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