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:
The Director/ Senior Director of Engineering at Razorpay is expected to bring in exceptional leadership, communication, and people leadership skills and will operate with vision and integrity. Some of the responsibilities include crafting company and unit-level goals, aligning engineering activities to achieve them, providing expert guidance and support, approving newly-developed policies, and also building and maintaining positive relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. The Senior Director of Engineering will have experience in identifying and navigating organizational changes, a keen interest in Indian trends in engineering and leadership, and high emotional intelligence.
Roles and Responsibilities:
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We believe in Impact creation at scale, so it is imperative for a Senior Director of Engineering.
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Ability to attract and hire top-notch Engineering talent for the organization.
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Be responsible for the group’s technical and business strategy and roadmap – creating success metrics in close collaboration with other groups across the organization in executing initiatives in an agile way.
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Brings a strong perspective that drives change and motivates engineers to develop simple solutions to complex problems.
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Help implement effective engineering processes and champion their adoption.
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The technical capacity and capability to partner with tech leads and architects in problem-solving.
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Mentor the professional development of each direct report through personal and performance management.
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Give engineers the tools, confidence, and motivation to make decisions independently that lead to their recognition.
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Effective at influencing a culture of engineering craftsmanship and excellence.
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Initiate cross-functional (Product, Business, Operations) collaborations with development teams throughout Razorpay and gather feedback and requirements.
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Seek diverse perspectives to drive bottom-up innovation and create buy-in from all technical stakeholders.
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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:
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Total of 16+ years experience.
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Experience level of 10+ years of experience in very large-scale applications and 6+ years experience in people management.
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Strong problem-solving skills, data structures, and algorithms.
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Experience with distributed systems handling large amounts of data.
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Good internal understanding of coding in one of the languages PHP/Python/C++/Java.
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Very good understanding of Web Technologies.
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Excellent understanding of any RDBMS and messaging.
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.
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What We Do
Power your finance, grow your business. Razorpay is India’s first full-stack financial solutions company. We are on a mission to enhance the payment experience of over 300 million end consumers. And in doing so, we aim to enable Indian businesses - big and small - accept payments digitally with minimal effort and maximum ease. Razorpay has grown from being a payment gateway provider to a solutions-driven organization boasting of an extensive products suite to accept and disburse payments as well as raise capital and park money. In a nutshell, we fit into every nook and corner where your business touches money. #OutgrowOrdinary We identify ourselves as disruptors in the digital payments space and our vision is to power the financial ecosystem for other disruptors. Like attracts like and Razorpay actively looks to partner with established companies and startups that have either broken the glass ceiling in their industry or are set to. The Razorpay Product Suite today comprises verticals, along with Payment Gateway, like Payment Links, Payment Pages, Subscriptions, Smart Collect, Route, Razorpay Capital, RazorpayX, Payroll and Thirdwatch. Razorpay was started in 2014 by two IIT Roorkee alumni, Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar. Just a short few years later, Razorpay has evolved into a 800-odd strong organization with some of the best talents in the country helping some of the best companies manage their money movement seamlessly. Certified cool We are a bunch of spirited, ambitious and fun folks. And no, we’re not saying this ourselves--leading institutions have recognized Razorpay for the high trust and high-performance culture that we maintain. 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. Be a part of our exciting journey.
