Senior Software Engineer
Razorpay · Posted Oct 22
Online payment gateway, business banking, payroll, and financial services platform
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About the role
Razorpay's engineering team builds the payment infrastructure that powers online payments across India, with a focus on REST APIs used by developers worldwide and open standards for mobile payments. The team works in AI-augmented workflows, treating AI as part of how software is built today. This Senior SDE role involves scaling payment infrastructure, shaping developer-facing APIs, and driving product and design discussions from idea to completion.
What you will do
- Scale Razorpay's payment infrastructure to get every Indian to pay online
- Shape REST APIs used by developers worldwide
- Contribute to open source and set standards for mobile payments
- Drive product and design discussions - not just implement them
- Brainstorm and create new directions in Razorpay's quest to make online payments easy and accessible to all
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 3+ years of experience in technology
- Strong product design sense - you think about the user, not just the implementation
- Proficiency in any of: PHP, Python, Django, Golang, Java, or C++
- Ability to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and arrive at effective solutions
- Good understanding of REST APIs and the web in general
- Ability to build a feature from scratch and drive it to completion independently
- Willingness to learn new technology - whatever lets you deliver the best product
- Clean, well-structured code as a default - with awareness of performance and time complexity trade-offs
- Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants - you use them actively, not occasionally
- Ability to decompose problems into structured, constrained prompts with clear expected outcomes
- Critical review mindset - you own every line of AI-generated code, spot hallucinations, incorrect assumptions, and security gaps
- Strong LLD depth before agent use - you design first, delegate second
- Awareness of where AI helps and where it fails - and the judgment to know the difference
Preferred qualifications
- Weekend side projects or contributions to open source on GitHub
- Prior experience at a product company
- Hands-on experience building with LLMs or agentic frameworks
- Working knowledge of a backend programming language beyond your primary stack
- Experience designing systems for scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance
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
The Paypers
Razorpay plans confidential IPO filing in India targeting USD 600 mln raise2026-04-20
Razorpay Newsroom
Razorpay Sprint 2026 Unveils 100+ Launches, From AI-native Payment Upgrades to Agentic Business Banking2026-06-01
Asia Tech Review
Razorpay launches foundational model to make India's payments smoother2026-08-19