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.
The Role:
As a Staff Engineer in Razorpay's Developer Productivity team, you will build platforms that enhance developer experience and productivity across the company by standardizing engineering workflows and leveraging AI capabilities. This role demands deep-expertise with strong opinions on how we should ship. You should be able to see nuances and elements that others might not. The ideal candidate should be able to drive org-wide change through execution and influence. As part of the senior engineering group you will be influencing the culture of the company and help it shape in the right way
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Architect and scale world-class developer platforms that help us build and ship faster
- Define and evangelize engineering best practices through systems that enforce standardization, reduce friction and improve developer experience
- Accelerate execution not just for engineering but also product managers and designers by integrating AI-driven tooling into our day to day workflows.
- Lead and collaborate with senior engineers and leadership across teams to define and execute the org-wide technical strategy.
- Mentor and coach engineers, fostering technical growth and leadership development.
- Represent Razorpay in developer-first forums and events, driving thought leadership and industry engagement.
Qualifications:
- 8-12 years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems and internet-scale products.
- Deep expertise in multiple programming languages and tech stacks, capable of writing maintainable, scalable, and testable code.
- Proven track record of leading and mentoring engineering teams to deliver complex projects successfully.
- Strong technical leadership, with the ability to drive architectural decisions and influence engineering culture.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities, with a focus on high-performance computing, scalability, and resilience.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, capable of influencing across teams and leadership levels.
- Self-driven and adaptable, thriving in fast-paced, high-growth environments with minimal guidance.
- Passionate about open source, with contributions to projects or personal side projects on GitHub.
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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.
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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.
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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.
