UPI and digital payments platform serving 100M+ users, owned by Axis Bank
Freecharge operates a mature payments and fintech stack (React, Node.js, Kafka, Redshift, BigQuery) anchored on UPI, bill payments, and merchant settlement. The engineering-heavy hiring focus, dominated by lead and senior roles, reflects both infrastructure scale (streaming pipelines via Kafka/Kinesis, data platforms on Redshift/BigQuery) and operational rigor—compliance pressures (ISO 27001, PCI DSS, RBI guidelines) are the dominant pain-point pattern, a signature trait of regulated financial infrastructure.
Freecharge is a digital payments platform serving over 100 million users across India. As a 100% subsidiary of Axis Bank, it operates a broad product suite including UPI transfers, utility and bill payments, mobile/DTH recharges, credit card issuance, and merchant payment solutions. The platform supports multiple payment rails (UPI, debit/credit cards, wallet) and targets both consumer users and small-to-midsize retailers. Based in Gurugram, Freecharge scales infrastructure across AWS and GCP with streaming data pipelines and analytics layers to support payments processing and lending operations.
Frontend: React, JavaScript, Redux. Backend: Node.js, Express, Docker, Kubernetes on AWS and GCP. Data: Kafka, Kinesis, Apache Airflow, Redshift, BigQuery, AWS Glue. Observability: SonarQube, Burp Suite. Collaboration: Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket.
Active projects span UI frameworks, automation and CI/CD test integration, batch and streaming data pipelines, data platform optimization, and analytics dashboards—indicating efforts to modernize product development velocity and data infrastructure.
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