Engineering Manager

Razorpay; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Razorpay in Bengaluru seeks an Engineering Manager who is grounded in engineering excellence, product thinking, and business awareness. You will lead a team responsible for building large‑scale, reliable software, influencing culture, and shaping Razorpay's technology roadmap.

You will mentor engineers, hire top talent, drive agile processes, collaborate with product and operations, and ensure alignment with company goals.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering or technical leadership.
• Experience with very large scale applications and people management.
• Strong problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with distributed systems handling large amounts of data.
• Excellent coding skills in PHP/Python/C++/Java.
• Strong understanding of Web Technologies and RDBMS/messaging.

Responsibilities

• Attract and hire top engineering talent.
• Define and drive the technical strategy and roadmap with metrics.
• Mentor direct reports and manage performance.
• Promote engineering craftsmanship and effective processes.
• Collaborate with product, business, and operations across Razorpay.
• Foster bottom-up innovation and cross-functional collaboration.
• Align team goals with Razorpay's bigger picture.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Data structures & algorithms

Web technologies

Tools

PHP

Python

C++

Java

Job description

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.

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:

Good to have:

• 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