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.
Location: Bangalore
The Role:We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Development Engineer (Data Platform) to own the strategy and execution of complex data initiatives across the organization. In this role, you will drive the architecture and roadmap of large-scale data platforms, ensuring alignment with business goals. As a technical leader and subject matter expert, you will work closely with engineering and leadership teams, mentor peers across teams, and help establish the engineering excellence needed to deliver next-generation data products.
Roles and Responsibilities:- Architect and oversee the design of cloud-native data infrastructure and platforms that scale across multiple business units.
- Develop technical roadmaps for data pipelines, analytics infrastructure, and real-time processing systems.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and leadership teams to align technical solutions with business strategy.
- Guide and mentor other engineers across the organization, fostering a culture of excellence in engineering practices.
- Design and implement MLOps pipelines to streamline model deployment, versioning, and monitoring.
- Ensure data security, privacy, and governance are embedded across all layers of the platform.
- Evaluate and introduce new tools and frameworks to continually improve the platform's capabilities and efficiency.
- Represent the team in architecture reviews, executive meetings, and external technical forums.
- 10+ years of experience in data platform engineering or distributed systems with a focus on scalable cloud solutions.
- Expertise in Python, Scala, Golang, and SQL, with deep knowledge of distributed data systems.
- Proven ability to design real-time and batch pipelines using Kafka, Spark, Airflow, and Flink.
- Extensive experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Strong knowledge of MLOps frameworks (MLflow, TFX) and data governance tools (DataHub, Amundsen).
- Exceptional leadership skills with a proven ability to mentor engineers, lead projects, and work cross-functionally.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence and guide key stakeholders.
- Experience in open-source contributions and working in high-growth product companies.
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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.
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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.
