Staff Software Development Engineer

Razorpay was founded by

Shashank Kumar and Harshil Mathur in 2014. Razorpay is building a new-age digital banking hub (Neobank) for businesses in India with the mission is to enable frictionless banking and payments experiences for businesses of all shapes and sizes. What started as a B2B payments company is processing billions of dollars of payments for lakhs of businesses across India. We are a full-stack financial services organisation, committed to helping Indian businesses with comprehensive and innovative payment and business banking solutions built over robust technology to address the entire length and breadth of the payment and banking journey for any business.

Over the past year, we've disbursed loans worth millions of dollars in loans to thousands of businesses. In parallel, Razorpay is reimagining how businesses manage money by simplifying business banking (via Razorpay X) and enabling capital availability for businesses (via Razorpay Capital).

The Role:

A Staff Engineer at Razorpay is well-grounded - wise, quality focussed, product thinker, and business conscious - not mere coders, of course, with deeper technical context and experience to build quality software. You should be able to see nuances and elements that others might not. Engineering creates a significant impact across different areas, considering the scale of our software product outreach. You’re expected to be involved in almost every project and also influence the culture of the company and help shape it in the right way.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Drive the technology and engineering best practices on different fronts like quality, performance, design, and operations at the organizational level
Responsible for design, architecture, and delivery of a feature or component/product with the highest quality with high-level directions from architects
Drive technology innovations & remaining ahead of the curve
Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end products & features
Demonstrate ability to multi-task and re-prioritize responsibilities based on changing requirements
Estimate efforts, identify risks, devices and meets project schedules
Runs review meetings effectively and drives the closure of all open issues on time
Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise within team and cross-team.
Mentor/coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership to them
Rise above detail to see broader issues and implications for the whole product/team & Implement a long-term technology vision for your organization & team
Contribute to streamlining hiring challenges and helping hire high-quality engineers for the organization
Represent organization and team in external & internal forums, respectively

Mandatory Qualifications:

8-12 years of strong design/development experience in building massively large-scale distributed internet systems and products
Deep expertise in more than one programming language and tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code
Experience leading & mentoring project teams
Strong Object-oriented skills, knowledge of design patterns, and uncanny ability to design intuitive modules and class-level interfaces.
Deep understanding of data-driven web application design and development
Superior organization, communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoys challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast-growing, and start-up workplace
Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in a fluid environment
Must be excited by challenges surrounding the development of massively scalable & distributed system
Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
The experience of having been a software engineer for at least 10 years.
Have a few weekend side projects up on GitHub
Have contributed to an open-source project
Have worked at a product company
Have a working knowledge of a backend programming language

Razorpay believes in and follows an equal employment opportunity policy that doesn't discriminate on gender, religion, sexual orientation, colour, nationality, age, etc. We welcome interests and applications from all groups and communities across the globe. Follow us on LinkedIn & Twitter

Life at Razorpay Software Private Limited

We are a spirited, ambitious and bunch of fun folks who have taken up the challenge of transforming the way businesses accept digital payments in India. We have gone from offering a pure payment gateway to offering a product suite that manages the entire payments lifecycle for all businesses, from startups to SMEs to large enterprises. We are a payment solution for forward-looking businesses. We enable online merchants with any payment need to easily accept, process and disburse payments through the most developer-friendly APIs, easy integration, onboarding processes and truly involved customer support. Our customers swear by our tech and UX, and we are ecstatic to see people enjoy the results of our fanatic focus on making online payments simple and accessible. Our strength lies in the people we are and we go to great lengths to nurture a family of coders, designers, sellers, marketers, analysts, writers, runners, photographers, gamers, tinkerers and above all people who are dreamers and doers at the same time. We are also powered by an enviable list of investors, who guide us to deliver outstanding outcomes and lead the way in redefining payments. Together we say - 'The Future of Payments is Here' OUR CULTURE We think you can do your best with a freedom to experiment, sense of ownership of your work, license to fail and when you have peers who care just as much as you about their art. We default to transparency because everyone can contribute to anything, and it's only possible if you get to know what's going on. Meetups, gaming, movies, team outings, celebrations, conferences & events, are some of the things we enjoy. AND YOU ARE Someone who thinks learning is the aim of life. You don't want to hide behind a mundane corporate job, a cog in the bigger scheme that's unknown. You want to own what you do and drive it to completion, with a touch of perfection befitting your zeal for your work. You swear by perfection and you bow to the church of research-based innovation. You love your tech and automation is your religion. Now that you know us and we know you, let's talk about what you can work on at Razorpay. CONTACT US Email: jobs@razorpay.com

Thrive Here & What We Value1. Equal Employment Opportunity Policy2. Welcomes interests and applications from all groups and communities across the globe3. Open Communication4. Innovative Technology5. Customer-Centric Approach6. Robust Technology7. Comprehensive and Holistic Thinking8. Diverse Range of Products and Features9. Mission is to enable frictionless banking and payments experiences for businesses of all shapes and sizes10. Innovation and Change-Driven Perspective

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