Job Application for Engineering Manager at Razorpay Software Private Limited

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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.

We are a full-stack financial services organisation, committed to helping Indian businesses with comprehensive and innovative payment and business banking solutions built over robust technology to address the entire length and breadth of the payment and banking journey for any business. Over the past year, we've disbursed loans worth millions of dollars in loans to thousands of businesses. In parallel, Razorpay is reimagining how businesses manage money by simplifying business banking (via Razorpay X) and enabling capital availability for businesses (via Razorpay Capital).

The Role:

An Engineering Manager 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. You’re also expected to influence the culture of the company and help shape it the right way.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Ability to attract and hire top-notch Engineering talent for the organization.
Be responsible for the group's technical 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, 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 8+ years' experience.
Experience level of 5+ years of experience in very large scale applications and 3+ years' experience in people management.
Strong problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.
Experience with distributed systems handling large amounts of data.
Excellent coding skills in one of the languages PHP/Python/C++/Java.
Very good understanding of Web Technologies.
Very good understanding of any RDBMS and/or messaging.

Good to have:

We also expect the following, but we accept that you can be an absolutely great developer without fulfilling the below. So go ahead and apply even if the following isn’t applicable:

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

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.

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