Lead Software Development Engineer

About the Role

A Lead Software Development Engineer at Razorpay is well-grounded, innovative, quality-focused, a product thinker, and business-conscious. This role goes beyond mere coding, requiring a 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 in the right way.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Be involved in and drive product & design discussions.
• Help scale Razorpay's payment infrastructure to enable every Indian to pay online.
• Help make decisions to shape Razorpay's REST APIs for developers worldwide.
• Contribute to open source as Razorpay sets the standards for mobile payments.
• Brainstorm and create new directions that Razorpay can take in its 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.