Senior Engineering Manager

• Ability to attract and hire top-notch Engineering talent for the organization.
• Be responsible for the groups 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.

• 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