Lead Software Development Engineer

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 seamless checkouts to payroll automation, across India, Singapore, and Malaysia, we’ve been engineering a fintech ecosystem that’s redefining how money moves across Asia — and we’re just getting started.

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.

About Corp Engineering

Corp Engineering is a newly created function at Razorpay that will redefine how internal tools and employee-facing products are built. We will build the products that every Razorpay employee touches daily: HR ticketing, performance management, interview tooling, employee onboarding, internal search. If it makes life better for people inside Razorpay, we build it. We operate with a lean, AI-native approach where small teams ship fast and own what they build.

Our customers are every single Razorpay employee. You ship something in the morning and hear about it at lunch. The feedback loop is measured in hours, not quarters. That speed of learning is hard to find anywhere else.

About the Role

This is one of Razorpay’s first true full-stack builder roles. You won’t just write code. You’ll own the entire lifecycle from talking to the person who has the problem, to designing the solution, to shipping it and making sure it actually works. You are the PM, the frontend engineer, and the backend engineer, rolled into one. You partner directly with HR, Talent Acquisition, and other teams to build products that thousands of employees use every day.

This role is AI-native. You use LLMs and agentic workflows as core parts of how you build, not as a side experiment. You write prompts as naturally as you write code. You ship at a pace that would typically need an entire squad. You are a one-person team who drives progress relentlessly and independently.

What You’ll Build

• An internal employee platform: a single destination for everything an employee needs at work. Think HR self-service, smart onboarding, people directory, AI-assisted query resolution, and manager tools, all in one place
• Interview environments: purpose-built platforms where candidates work through real scenario-based problems that test agency and problem solving, not just DSA on a whiteboard
• Performance management: goal setting, review cycles, calibration dashboards, and tooling that helps managers actually manage
• Internal search: every employee deserves instant access to the right information — policy docs, people, past decisions, Drive files. You’ll build the experience that makes that possible.
• Employee experience products: onboarding workflows, pulse surveys, request management, and self-service HR tools

What We’re Looking For

• 4–6 years of software engineering experience with strong skills across frontend (React/Next.js) and backend (Python/Django, Ruby/Ruby on Rails/Go)
• You’ve shipped products end-to-end before, from talking to users all the way to production deployment and monitoring
• Strong product instinct. You can sit with a stakeholder, figure out the real problem, and build the right thing without waiting for a spec
• AI-native mindset. You use LLMs and agentic tools daily to write, debug, and ship code. You also build AI into the products you create
• Security awareness. These tools will handle sensitive employee data: performance reviews, compensation, personal information. You understand secure coding practices, data access controls, and why this matters
• Experience with databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), caching (Redis), messaging queues, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP)
• Bias for action. You prefer shipping over perfecting and iterate quickly based on feedback from colleagues down the hall

Why This Role is Different

• You own the full stack and the full product lifecycle. That almost never happens at a company of Razorpay’s scale
• You’re building a new function from the ground up. Your early work will shape how Corp Engineering operates for years
• Your users sit in the same office. You’ll know within days whether what you built actually works
• AI-native is not a label. It’s how we build and how we ship 10x faster with lean teams
• Direct visibility with senior leadership. What you build impacts every employee at Razorpay