Lead Software Development Engineer

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. 

Razorpay POS, Razorpay’s comprehensive suite of point-of-sale led payment solutions, enables businesses to accept various modes of payment across all customer touchpoints. Be it across the counter, on delivery, or via kiosks and vending machines, Razorpay POS devices offer a smooth payment experience with fast processing and high transaction success rates. Merchants are also able to offer consumers convenient payment options like EMI right on the POS device. Access to real-time transaction data and analytics via the merchant portal enables businesses to drive data-led decisions. 

With over 500,000+ user touchpoints across India & the UAE, Razorpay POS is at the forefront of transforming payment experiences.

Formerly known as Ezetap, Razorpay POS emerged after Ezetap’s acquisition by Razorpay in August 2022. As a full-stack financial services organization founded in 2014 by Shashank Kumar and Harshil Mathur, Razorpay is dedicated to innovative payment and business banking solutions, promising a transformative journey for businesses.

The Role:

A Lead Software Development Engineer at Razorpay is well-grounded - smart, quality focussed, product thinker, business conscious - not mere coders, of course, with very good technical context and experience to write and build quality software. Engineering creates a significant impact across different areas, considering the scale of our software product outreach. You’re 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