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Shishir Jain

VP of Engineering

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India16 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led teams managing over 1 million trades daily.
  • Achieved 10x growth in user base and revenue.
  • Successfully migrated services to AWS cloud.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with extensive experience in backend development and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaAgile MethodologiesOperational ExcellencePayments For BusinessAws Cloud MigrationDigital LedgerPos Billing SoftwareBackend TechnologyInvoices ServiceMerchant-payouts Module

Other Skills

Order Management SystemDisaster RecoveryTeam coordinationMotor insurance productCohort-based targetingTeam buildingPhysical fulfilmentSpringGroovyParallel ProgrammingAlgorithmsProgramming LanguagesJava Enterprise EditionHTMLCore Java

About

- Experienced and results-oriented professional with 15 years in the software industry, skilled in leading cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions. - Proficiency in designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems. - Strong leadership and team management skills. - Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities. - Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills. - Experience with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices. - Familiarity with cloud computing platforms and technologies. Specialities: Java, Spring, Hibernate, NodeJS, Express, Maven, NGinx, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, micro-services, Agile methodologies, team building, mentoring

Experience

16 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 6 mos
Current Experience

Kotak mahindra bank

Principal Manager - Software Engineering

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Delhi Area · Hybrid

Paytm

6 roles

AVP Engineering

Apr 2023Jul 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Core Trading Platform: Leading the backend technology team at Paytm Money, tasked with overseeing the development of the Order Management System (OMS) for Equities and the Front Office modules, managing more than 1 million trades per day.
  • Led the design and execution of the "Flex" framework, aimed at establishing a robust, flexible, and scalable system to support essential trading operations while seamlessly integrating with OMS sourced from various vendors.
  • Disaster Recovery: Led and coordinated a comprehensive Disaster Recovery initiative across multiple technical teams, comprising over 80 engineers, resulting in the successful implementation and execution of the plan.
  • Led the backend technology team at Paytm Money, overseeing the platform services responsible for onboarding and KYC processes.
  • Led the backend technology team at Paytm Money, focusing on the development and management of the Mutual Fund services.
  • Work closely with Product Management, Frontend, DevOps, QA, Operations, Compliance, and Customer Service teams to ensure successful delivery of roadmaps.
JavaOrder Management SystemDisaster RecoveryAgile methodologiesBackend technology

Director Of Engineering

Apr 2022Mar 2023 · 11 mos

  • Led both the backend and frontend teams at Paytm Insurance, overseeing the entire development lifecycle of the Motor insurance product.
  • Successfully reduced the integration time for new insurance partners into the product from over 30 days to just 10 days, achieving nearly a 60 percent increase in time efficiency through the implementation of the new framework.
  • Growth Targeting: Spearheading the design and implementation of the consumer-service module. This module is responsible for cohort-based targeting and re-targeting strategies aimed at engaging existing customers.
  • Successfully completed real-time integrations with various verticals within the Paytm ecosystem, including FASTag, Challan, Payments, etc., systems to enhance user data and enable focused targeting.
  • Implemented cohort-based targeting strategies, resulting in exceptional growth for the motor insurance product. Witnessed a remarkable 10x increase in both user base and revenue within a span of less than 6 months.
  • Operational Excellence: Led the team in achieving operational excellence by leveraging tools such as Grafana, New Relic, Sentry, and Kibana.
Motor insurance productCohort-based targetingOperational excellenceAgile methodologies

Sr. Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2020Mar 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Led the backend technology team for Payments for Business, the merchant application of Paytm, managing peak traffic exceeding 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) and serving a consumer base of over 15 million merchants.
  • Effectively orchestrated the migration of backend services from physical servers to the AWS cloud platform.
  • Led the backend technology team in building the platform from scratch, facilitating merchants to upload vendor invoices, process payments, and reconcile transactions seamlessly.
  • Successfully built a technology team comprising 30 engineers within just 6 months.
Payments for BusinessAWS cloud migrationTeam building

Engineering Manager

Apr 2018Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Led the backend technology team to built the platform from scratch to enable merchants to upload vendor invoices, make the payments and reconcile. Also responsible for building the team from the scratch
  • Led the backend technology team for Paytm's digital ledger, Business Khata, enable the merchants to record their 'Udhars'/Payments and send Payment reminders.
  • Led the backend tech team for Paytm POS billing software
  • Led the backend tech team for Paytmmall's physical fulfilment, allowing merchants to fulfil their order and track the forward and return journey.
Digital ledgerPOS billing softwareTeam building

Senior Technical Lead

Promoted

Apr 2017Mar 2018 · 11 mos

  • Primarily focussed on two modules, Invoices and Physical fulfilment, along with peer code reviews, designing and architecting key solutions and mentoring.
  • Physical Fulfilment: Allowing merchants to fulfil their online orders and track the forward/return journey.
  • Invoices: Central platform service which helps generate the invoices for different fulfillment services. Supports different templates of the invoices which can be changed at runtime.
Backend technologyMerchant-Payouts module

Technical Lead

Oct 2014Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Single-handedly build the invoices service from scratch. This service helps generate the invoices for different fulfillment services. Supports different templates of the invoices which can be changed runtime.
  • Responsible for Merchant-Payouts module which calculates, tracks and disperses payouts for all marketplace merchants
Invoices servicePhysical fulfilment

Snapdeal

3 roles

Technical Lead

Apr 2014Oct 2014 · 6 mos

  • Accountable for leading the development efforts of the Backend for Frontend (BFF) layer at Snapdeal.
Merchant-Payouts moduleBackend technology

Sr. Software Developer

Promoted

Apr 2013Mar 2014 · 11 mos

  • Accountable for leading the development efforts of the Backend for Frontend (BFF) layer at Snapdeal.

Software Engineer

Nov 2011Mar 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Site development

Sabre holdings

2 roles

Contributor Software Developer

Jul 2011Nov 2011 · 4 mos · Bangalore

  • Development of web base tool using java, spring, groovy.

Associate Software Developer

Jul 2009Jun 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Development of web base tool using java, spring, groovy.
JavaSpringGroovy

Indian institute of technology, kanpur

Teaching Assistance

Aug 2008Apr 2009 · 8 mos

  • Assisted the professor in charge for the two courses (Principles of Programming Language and Computer Architecture) in the following period.
  • Responsibilities involving preparing of lab assignments, guiding students in lab sessions and assisting professor in the other course related activities.
JavaSpringGroovy

Safexpress pvt. ltd

Intern

May 2007Jun 2007 · 1 mo

  • Monitored the network connection to the other Safexpress hubs.
  • Supervised the network linkage and give suggestions to remove bottlenecks.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

M.Tech — Computer Science & Engg

Jan 2004Jan 2009

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

B.Tech — Computer Science & Engg

Jan 2004Jan 2009

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