About Us
Razorpay is India's leading full-stack Payments and Banking Platform, powering the digital financial infrastructure for over 10 million businesses. Founded in 2015, Razorpay enables businesses to accept, process, and disburse payments with ease, while offering innovative products across Payments, Capital, and Banking. Backed by marquee investors like Sequoia Capital India, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator, Razorpay is transforming the way businesses manage money and scale sustainably.
As part of its international expansion strategy, Razorpay acquired Razorpay Curlec, a Kuala Lumpur-based full-stack payments solution, to establish a strong presence in Southeast Asia. Razorpay Curlec has since become an integral part of Razorpay's vision to simplify financial operations for businesses across the region. Building on this momentum, Razorpay is now expanding into Singapore, marking its next strategic step in the Southeast Asia
About the Role
The Senior Engineering Manager at Razorpay comes with considerable engineering management experience and proven leadership skills. You are expected to work on multiple projects at the same time, and also build and manage teams of engineers, possibly with a diverse set of tech skills. You may also be required to manage first-line managers. You will formulate and execute strategies, and coordinate with other managers. Your responsibilities mainly include people management, delivery management, and overseeing all the activities related to each project.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- We believe in Impact creation at scale, so it is imperative for a Senior Engineering Manager.
- Ability to attract and hire top-notch Engineering talent for the organization.
- Be responsible for the group's technical strategy and roadmap - creating success metrics in close collaboration with other groups across the organization in executing initiatives in an agile way.
- Brings a strong perspective that drives change and motivates engineers to develop simple solutions to complex problems.
- Help implement effective engineering processes and champion their adoption.
- Has the technical capacity and capability to partner with tech leads and architects in problem-solving.
- Mentor the professional development of each direct report through personal and performance management.
- Give engineers the tools, confidence, and motivation to make decisions independently that lead to their recognition.
- Effective at influencing a culture of engineering craftsmanship and excellence.
- Initiate cross-functional (Product, Business, Operations) collaborations with development teams throughout Razorpay and gather feedback and requirements. Seek diverse perspectives to drive bottom-up innovation and create buy-in from all technical stakeholders.
- Ensure the team fully understands the goals and objectives of Razorpay as a company and how their work fits into the bigger picture.
Mandatory Qualifications:
- Total of 10+ years experience, 6+ years of experience in very large-scale applications, and 3+ years experience in actual people management.
- Strong problem-solving skills, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience with distributed systems handling large amounts of data.
- Excellent coding skills in one of the languages golang/Python/C++/Java.
- Very good understanding of Web Technologies.
- Very good understanding of any RDBMS and/or messaging.
