Talent Acquisition Specialist - IT Recruitment
paytm · Posted Oct 6
Mobile payments, digital wallets, banking solutions, and financial services
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About the role
Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company, building technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. The Talent Acquisition team hires the engineering talent behind Paytm's core business units, spanning software engineering, backend, frontend, infrastructure, data, and mobile roles. This role owns the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle in Noida, partnering with Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and HR Business Partners to source, assess, and close technical talent in a fast-paced fintech environment.
What you will do
- End-to-End Talent Acquisition: Drive the full recruitment lifecycle for software engineering, backend, frontend, infrastructure, data, and mobile engineering roles.
- Proactive Sourcing & Pipeline Building: Utilize advanced sourcing techniques (LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, tech communities, employee referrals, and specialized job portals) to build a robust candidate pipeline for critical engineering demands.
- Hiring Manager Partnership: Collaborate with Engineering Leadership to understand technical requirements, define candidate personas, and align on hiring timelines and assessment criteria.
- Candidate Experience: Ensure a transparent, engaging, and professional candidate journey from initial outreach through technical rounds to offer acceptance and onboarding.
- Offer Management & Negotiation: Conduct salary fitment assessments, negotiate offer packages, and manage post-offer engagement to ensure high offer conversion rates and low drop-outs.
- Process & SLA Adherence: Track key recruitment metrics including time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, channel mix, and pass-through ratios to continuously optimize hiring efficiency.
- AI-Enabled Recruitment Workflows: Utilize AI tools for job description generation, candidate matching, Boolean string building, and intelligent resume parsing.
- Market Intelligence & Outreach: Use AI tools for market mapping, competitive talent research, and personalizing candidate outreach emails at scale.
- Productivity Improvement: Leverage AI-driven scheduling tools, automated interview updates, and automated reporting to reduce recruitment cycle times.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 2–4 years of core hands-on experience in IT/Technical recruitment within a fast-paced Internet, Fintech, Product, or High-Growth Tech ecosystem.
- Demonstrated track record of closing niche and complex engineering roles (e.g., Java, Microservices, React, Node.js, Cloud/DevOps, Data Engineering).
- Strong understanding of modern technology stacks, engineering designations, and technical skill matrices.
- Excellent candidate assessment, stakeholder management, and salary negotiation skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
- Demonstrates high ownership, bias for action, and a result-oriented approach to closing open mandates.
- Possesses strong learning agility and keeps pace with evolving technology trends and tech-hiring practices.
- Brings a young, dynamic, and modern mindset, adapting rapidly to shifting business priorities.
- Values candidate experience, diversity, and candidate-first communication.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience recruiting within product-based tech companies or fast-scaling fintech startups.
- Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) like Lever, Greenhouse, or Darwinbox.
- Proven exposure to high-volume recruitment drives, hackathons, and tech community engagement.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About paytm
Paytm is India's leading financial services company offering full-stack payment solutions, digital wallets, QR codes, and financial services to consumers and merchants. The platform provides comprehensive digital inclusion via UPI payments, banking services distribution, merchant devices, and lending solutions. Operating under its parent firm One97 Communications, Paytm has scaled its operations into a robust profitability-driven ecosystem.
- Industry
- FinTech
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2010
- Location
- Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $4.91B raised
- 2023-08-28Late Stage$246.34M
- 2020-11-20Angel$1.26M
- 2019-12-06Series H$673M
- 2018-08-27Series G$300M
Leadership
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Recent coverage
The Tribune
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Paytm Newsroom
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