Lead Software Engineer

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 building AI-native agentic payments to AI-assisted fraud detection and real-time risk intelligence to automated reconciliation smart payouts and predictive financial insights we are embedding intelligence across our stack to make money movement faster safer and more close collaboration with ecosystem partners - including banks networks regulators - we are pioneering industry-first solutions that are shaping the next era of fintech

Across India Singapore and Malaysia our products span everything from seamless checkouts to payroll automation - powering a fintech ecosystem thats redefining how money moves across Asia.

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: Lead Software Development Engineer

The Role:

A lead software development engineer at Razorpay is well-grounded - innovative quality focussed product thinker and business conscious - not mere coders of course with deeper technical context and experience to build quality software. You should be able to see nuances and elements that others might not. Engineering creates a significant impact across different areas considering the scale of our software product outreach. Youre also expected to influence the culture of the company and help shape it in the right way.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Be involved and drive product & design discussions.
• Help us scale our payment infrastructure to get every Indian to pay online.
• Help us make decisions to shape our REST APIs for developers worldwide.
• Contribute to open source as we set the standards for mobile payments.
• Be involved and drive product & design discussions.
• And most importantly brainstorm and create new directions that Razorpay can take in our quest to make online payments easy and accessible to all.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in Technology.
• A strong product design sense.
• Good experience in working with any of the programming languages like PHP Python Django Golang Java C
• Understand end-user requirements formulate use cases and come up with effective solutions.
• Good understanding of REST APIs and the web in general.
• Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion.
• A willingness to learn new technology whatever lets you deliver the best product.
• Have a few weekend side projects up on GitHub
• Have contributed to an open-source project
• Have worked at a product company
• Have a working knowledge of a backend programming language

Location: Bangalore