Lead Software Engineer
Razorpay · Posted Oct 12
Online payment gateway, business banking, payroll, and financial services platform
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About the role
Razorpay is a digital payments company building payment infrastructure and public-facing REST APIs for developers worldwide, operating at global scale. The engineering team builds production-grade, highly scalable systems and applications across complex architectural scales. This Lead SDE role drives low-level design, scalable systems delivery, code quality, testing and resilience, and product/API strategy while mentoring engineering peers and leading AI-augmented development workflows.
What you will do
- Architecture & Design Thinking: Drive ambiguous requirements into clean, low-level designs (LLD) with clear interfaces, data flows, and non-functional requirements (NFRs) before execution.
- Engineering Leadership & AI Augmentation: Act as the "tech lead of an AI agent loop". Lead development by utilizing AI-augmented workflows and engineering assistants strategically—handling prompt decomposition, constraint management, and rigorous code validation.
- Scalable Systems Delivery: Build full-fledged applications and payment infrastructure from scratch, driving features to completion. Transition systems seamlessly across complex architectural scales.
- Code Quality & Integrity: Maintain high-quality implementation standards with clean abstractions, SOLID principles, and modular, maintainable code. Take full ownership of all code codebases, performing independent navigation, debugging, and strict verification without AI assistance when required.
- Product & API Strategy: Actively participate in and drive product and design discussions. Shape our public-facing REST APIs for developers worldwide and brainstorm new directions to make online payments easy and accessible.
- Robust Testing & Resilience: Implement comprehensive verification strategies—including unit, integration, adversarial, and known-risk testing—to ensure error-free functionality under multi-limit and distributed failure modes.
- Collaboration & Mentorship: Mentorship of engineering peers, clearly articulating technical trade-offs, defending architectural decisions, and engaging in constructive discussions across teams to prioritise end-user value.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 5+ years of experience in professional software technology, preferably within a fast-paced product company.
- Expert working knowledge and deep fluency in at least one backend programming language (e.g., GoLang, Java, Python).
- Strong grasp of both High-Level Design and Low-Level Design.
- Proven understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, data storage trade-offs caching, and event-driven architectures.
- Resiliency Patterns: Solid understanding of system failure modes and modern mitigation patterns.
- Familiarity with Agentic Workflows.
- Ability to break complex engineering problems down into structured, promptable tasks while maintaining complete accountability for code safety, security gaps, and hallucination detection.
- Understanding of web architectures, HTTP protocols, and REST API conventions.
- Demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo, evaluate complex technical trade-offs rationally, and display immense agility when iterating on products at scale.
- A strong willingness to learn and unlearn new technologies to deliver the best possible product outcome.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Razorpay
Razorpay is India's leading omnichannel payments and full-stack financial solutions company, providing an extensive suite of products to accept, process, and disburse digital payments. Beyond payment gateways, the company offers neo-banking solutions via RazorpayX, business loans, payroll management, and corporate credit cards. It serves millions of businesses ranging from startups and SMEs to large enterprises globally.
- Industry
- Fintech
- Company size
- 3000+ employees
- Founded
- 2013
- Location
- Bengaluru, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $742M raised
- 2021-12-19Series F$375M
- 2021-04-19Series E$160M
- 2020-10-12Series D$100M
- 2018-07-05Series C$75M
- 2016-07-12Series B$20M
Leadership
CEO and Co-founder
MD and Co-founder
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Recent coverage
Razorpay Press Release
Razorpay Launches Vulcan, India's First AI Payments Foundation Model, Fueled by NVIDIA and AWS2026-09-07
Outlook Business
Razorpay Merchants Can Now Accept Apple Pay Online and In-Store2026-10-01
The Paypers
Razorpay plans confidential IPO filing in India targeting USD 600 mln raise2026-04-20
Razorpay Press Release
For the First Time in India, Businesses on RazorpayX Can Now Bank with AI Agents That Work While They Sleep2026-06-01