Razorpay—Engineering Manager

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Description: Razorpay is one of India’s 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 - we’ve since grown into a fintech powerhouse driving India’s 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 efficient. In 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 that’s redefining how money moves across Asia. Today, that ecosystem supports everyone from early-stage startups to some of India’s 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 India’s 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 you’re curious, you’ll 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, you’ll be part of a 3000+ strong team building not just products, but the financial infrastructure of the future. Title: Engineering Manager About the Role: The Engineering Manager at Razorpay is a highly technical, innovative, business-focused and hands-on leader. You are passionate about solving customer’s problems through technical and high quality software. You deeply understand technical nuances, and actively contribute to the codebase. Given the scale of our products, your technical expertise and direct coding impact will be significant. Beyond technical excellence, you will influence and shape our engineering culture, fostering craftsmanship and continuous improvement, while keeping a keen eye on product and business impact. Roles and Responsibilities: - Hands-on Technical Leadership: Actively engage in coding, performing in-depth code reviews, and partnering with tech leads and senior engineers on complex problem-solving, system design, and architectural decisions. - Strategic & AI-Driven Development: Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap, leveraging cutting-edge AI-powered tools and methodologies to enhance workflows, automate tasks, optimize performance, and drive innovative solutions across the engineering lifecycle. - Customer & Business Centricity: Champion a customer-first approach, ensuring we ideate and build technical products that are deeply aligned with business goals and directly contribute to measurable business impact. - Process & Quality Champion: Drive engineering craftsmanship by championing effective processes, standards, and tools that enhance code quality, system reliability, and developer productivity. - Talent & Growth Focus: Attract, hire, and technically mentor top-tier engineering talent, fostering their growth and empowering independent, data-driven decision-making. - Collaborative Innovation: Lead technical collaborations across functions (Product, Business, Operations), providing insights, gathering requirements, and fostering bottom-up innovation that results in robust, scalable solutions aligned with business objectives. Mandatory Qualifications: - 7+ years' experience in software engineering, including 4+ years of hands-on coding in large-scale applications and 1+ years in people management. - Exceptional coding skills in any backend programming language preferably Go, PHP, Python, C++, or Java. - Experience in using and building with LLMs. - Extensive experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems handling large data volumes. - In depth understanding of Web Technologies, databases, and/or messaging systems. Good to have: - Contributions to open-source projects or personal side projects on GitHub. - Experience in a product-driven company, understanding the full software development lifecycle. - Comprehensive understanding of backend programming languages and ecosystem trends. Location: Bangalore 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. Follow us on LinkedIn & Twitter