Engineering Manager

About RazorpayPOS

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:

An Engineering Manager @ Razorpay is well-grounded - innovative, quality focused, 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 organisation.
• Be responsible for the groups technical strategy and roadmap - creating success metrics in close collaboration with other groups across the organisation in 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 Java/Golang.
• 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