PayU is a payments and financial services company that operates primarily in high growth markets. It provides the technology that lets merchants accep... See PayU open jobs and get referred by a verified employee on RefOpen.
PayU is a payments and financial services company that operates primarily in high growth markets. It provides the technology that lets merchants accept online payments, supporting cards, bank transfers, digital wallets and local payment methods, and it extends into adjacent services including credit, checkout financing and merchant working capital. Its focus has been on markets where payment behaviour is fragmented and local methods matter more than international card schemes.
The company is part of Prosus, the international arm of the South African group Naspers, and is headquartered in Hoofddorp in the Netherlands. It employs several thousand people across Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. India is its single largest market and operating base, where PayU has grown into one of the country's larger payment gateways serving online merchants, and where it also operates lending businesses.
Its Indian operations include PayU Payments, which provides gateway and merchant acquiring services, and consumer and merchant credit businesses built on the payment relationship. The company has made a series of acquisitions in India, including Wibmo, which brought authentication and mobile payment security capability, and it received in principle regulatory approval to operate as a payment aggregator, a designation that governs who may hold and route merchant funds in the country.
The engineering problems in payments are characteristic and demanding. Transaction systems must be highly available because downtime directly prevents merchants from taking money. Correctness and reconciliation matter because every transaction has a financial consequence and a regulatory record. Fraud and risk systems must make decisions in milliseconds without rejecting legitimate customers. Integration surface is large, because each market brings its own banks, networks, regulators and local payment methods.
Regulation is a constant design input rather than a compliance afterthought, covering data localisation, tokenisation of card credentials, two factor authentication requirements and settlement rules that differ by jurisdiction.
Roles at PayU cover backend and distributed systems engineering, payments and integration engineering, data engineering and risk modelling, site reliability and security, product management, merchant operations and support, and commercial and partnership positions.
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PayU operates in payments and financial technology, is headquartered in Hoofddorp, Netherlands, employs around 5,001-10,000 people.
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