Senior Director, Engineering
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Job Summary
Razorpay is one of Indias leading full-stack financial technology companies powering the way businesses move manage and grow money. Founded in 2014 by Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar with a simple vision to simplify payments for Indian businesses weve since grown into a fintech powerhouse driving Indias digital payment revolution.
Razorpay powers millions of businesses with a smarter scalable stack that goes beyond transactions to help them truly build and grow.
From seamless checkouts to payroll automation across India Singapore and Malaysia weve been engineering a fintech ecosystem thats redefining how money moves across Asia and were just getting started.
Today that ecosystem supports everyone from early-stage startups to some of Indias largest enterprises enabling them to accept process and disburse payments at scale while expanding into new ways of managing money more efficiently.
Our scale speaks volumes: Razorpay processes $180 billion in annualized transactions powering leading businesses like Airbnb Facebook WhatsApp Airtel CRED BookmyShow Zomato Swiggy Lenskart Mirae Asset Capital markets Indian Oil National Pension Scheme and over 100 of Indias unicorns. With strong roots in India and growing operations in Southeast Asia we are shaping the next chapter of financial technology across the region.
We are backed by global investors including GIC Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA) Tiger Global Ribbit Capital Matrix Partners MasterCard and Salesforce Ventures having raised over $740 million to date. Strategic acquisitions including Ezetap (POS and offline payments) Curlec (Malaysia expansion) BillMe (digital invoicing) and POP (rewards-first UPI) along with earlier moves in fraud prevention payroll and lending have further strengthened our platform and widened our footprint across Asia.
But what truly sets Razorpay apart is our culture. At Razorpay ownership is our oxygen you own what you build with no micromanagement or red tape just the runway to make your ideas fly. Learning is a lifestyle if youre curious youll feel at home here. People > Pedigree we hire for attitude hustle and hunger more than degrees. Transparency thrives over titles this is where interns question CXOs and CXOs say thank you. Guided by our values of Customer First Autonomy & Ownership Agility with Integrity Transparency Challenging the status quo and a strong belief that Razorpay grows with Razors youll be part of a 3000 strong team building not just products but the financial infrastructure of the future.
Title: Senior Director- Engineering
The Role:
The Senior Director of Engineering at Razorpay is expected to bring 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 building and maintaining positive relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. DoE will have experience identifying and navigating organizational changes a keen interest in Indian trends in engineering and leadership and high emotional intelligence.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- We believe in Impact creation at scale so it is imperative for the Director.
- Ability to attract and hire top-notch Engineering talent for the organization.
- Be responsible for the groups technical and business strategy and roadmap creating success metrics in close collaboration with other groups across the organization and 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 and 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 15 years experience.
- Experience level of 7 years of experience in very large scale applications and 6 years experience in people management.
- Strong problem solving skills data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with distributed systems handling large amounts of data.
- Good internal understanding of coding in one of the languages PHP/Python/C/Java.
- Very good understanding of Web Technologies.
- Very good understanding of any RDBMS and/or messaging.
Location: Bangalore
Required Experience:
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