The Role: 

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 10+ 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.

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

About the Team

Razorpay's agentic products are scaling fast. Agent-powered onboarding, dashboard experiences, and automation workflows are live and growing, and the engineering teams building them are moving quickly. As we scale, we need shared infrastructure that lets every product team access the best model for each task without having to build routing, observability, or resilience logic themselves.

We are building an AI Inference Platform: a centralized layer that handles intelligent model routing, cost optimization, and quality observability across all of Razorpay's agentic products. The goal is simple. Product teams declare what kind of task they need done. The platform takes care of picking the right model, managing fallbacks, and tracking cost and quality. Teams stay focused on shipping features.

About the Role

As Lead AI Engineer on the platform side, you build the inference orchestration layer that sits between our product teams and their model providers. Routing, fallbacks, cost tracking, A/B testing for model swaps, and observability are all yours. Your customers are internal engineering teams, and your job is to give them a single reliable interface to every model the org uses while keeping the complexity of that routing layer off their plates.

You also own the observability and eval-in-production infrastructure: standardized tracing and cost dashboards across all agentic products, and the shadow-testing infrastructure that lets us validate model swaps safely before they reach production traffic.

What You’ll Build

• Build and operate a unified model gateway that abstracts provider complexity for product teams. Teams work with a clean interface; the platform handles routing, provider selection, and fallback logic under the hood
• Design and implement intelligent routing that matches each request to the right model based on task complexity, latency requirements, and cost targets. Not every call needs the same model
• Build resilience into the platform so provider outages, rate limits, and latency spikes are handled transparently. Agentic workflows stay up regardless of what happens upstream
• Own the observability layer across all AI-powered products: cost per call, latency distributions, token usage, and quality signals. Give product teams and leadership a clear view of how AI is performing and what it costs
• Build the infrastructure for safe model transitions: run new models alongside production, compare outputs, and roll out changes gradually with automated quality checks at every stage
• Drive continuous cost efficiency through caching strategies, request optimization, and per-team spend attribution so the org can scale AI usage without costs growing linearly with traffic

What We’re Looking For

• 5 to 8 years as a backend or platform engineer, with a track record of building API gateways, middleware, or developer platform services at scale. Strong in Go or Python
• Experience building high-availability, low-latency distributed systems: load balancing, circuit breakers, graceful degradation, retry logic, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent
• Solid understanding of LLM APIs and token economics. You can design routing rules based on input/output token pricing, streaming vs. batch tradeoffs, and how prompt length affects both cost and latency
• You think in platform terms. You know the difference between building for end users and building for engineers, and you know that internal platform quality shows up in other teams’ velocity
• Familiarity with LLM orchestration and observability tooling: LiteLLM, Portkey, Langfuse, LangChain, or similar. You do not need to have used all of them, but you need to understand the landscape well enough to make good choices
• Experience with Kubernetes and distributed systems. GPU workload scheduling or ML serving infrastructure is a meaningful bonus

Why This Role is Different

• The platform you build becomes the backbone of every AI-powered product at Razorpay. Good infrastructure decisions here compound across every team and every workflow that ships on top of it
• You work on real scale from day one. The problems are concrete, the feedback loop is tight, and the impact of what you build shows up in production metrics quickly
• This role combines deep platform engineering with the emerging discipline of LLM infrastructure. It is a rare combination that puts you at the leading edge of how AI systems are built in production
• You are embedded in the decision-making, not downstream of it. You work directly with ML engineers and product teams, and your input shapes how the org approaches model selection, cost, and quality at every level
• You get genuine ownership over the architecture. This is a space where the right patterns are still being defined, and you have the scope to make meaningful design decisions rather than inherit them

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive compensation with ESOPs, comprehensive health insurance, learning and development budget, and all the perks of working at one of India’s leading fintech companies.

Title: Senior Engineering Manager 

The Role: 

The Senior Engineering Manager at Razorpay comes with considerable engineering management experience and proven leadership skills. You are expected to work on multiple projects at the same time, and also build and manage teams of engineers, possibly with a diverse set of tech skills. You may also be required to manage first-line managers. You will formulate and execute strategies, and coordinate with other managers. Your responsibilities mainly include people management, delivery management, and overseeing all the activities related to each project. 

Roles and Responsibilities: 

• We believe in Impact creation at scale, so it is imperative for a Senior Engineering Manager. 
• 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 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 10+ years experience, 6+ years of experience in very large-scale applications, and 3+ years experience in actual 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.

Location: Bangalore (Hybrid)

Title: Engineering Manager 

The Role: 

The Engineering Manager at Razorpay comes with considerable engineering management experience and proven leadership skills. You are expected to work on multiple projects at the same time, and also build and manage teams of engineers, possibly with a diverse set of tech skills. You may also be required to manage first-line managers. You will formulate and execute strategies, and coordinate with other managers. Your responsibilities mainly include people management, delivery management, and overseeing all the activities related to each project. 

Roles and Responsibilities: 

• We believe in Impact creation at scale, so it is imperative for a Engineering Manager. 
• 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 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 10+ years experience, 6+ years of experience in very large-scale applications, and 3+ years experience in actual 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.

Location: Bangalore 

About the Role

Razorpay is looking for an AI Evangelist who sits at the intersection of deep technology and compelling storytelling. This is not a traditional marketing role. You will go deep into engineering, understand how things work under the hood, and then translate that complexity into stories, demos, prototypes, and content that engineers and the broader tech community actually care about.

You will be the face and voice of Razorpay Engineering to the outside world. You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers, build working prototypes that showcase our tech, write blogs that people share and talk about, produce video content that stands out, and represent Razorpay at conferences and meetups. Your work directly shapes how the industry sees Razorpay as an engineering brand.

What You Will Do

• Build prototypes and demos that bring Razorpay’s engineering work to life. You will not ship production code, but you will write real code to create compelling proof-of-concepts that show what our tech can do
• Write technical blogs, deep-dives, and case studies that explain complex engineering decisions in a way that is clear, engaging, and worth reading. No fluff, no corporate speak
• Produce and edit video content: interviews with engineers, technical walkthroughs, event recaps, short-form content for social media. You are comfortable in front of a camera and behind the editing timeline
• Organize and host tech events, both internal (engineering all-hands, tech talks, hackathons) and external (meetups, conferences, community get-togethers). You own the format, the content, and the experience
• Speak at industry events and conferences. You represent Razorpay’s engineering story on stage with clarity and conviction
• Build and maintain Razorpay Engineering’s presence on social media. You engage with the developer community, share insights, and grow our reach on platforms like X, LinkedIn, and YouTube
• Work closely with engineering teams to identify great stories worth telling. You sit in design reviews, understand the architecture decisions being made, and turn those into content that resonates

What We Are Looking For

• 8 to 12 years of experience in a role that combines technical depth with external communication. Could be a Tech Evangelist, Technical Marketing Engineer, Developer Advocate, or a Product Manager with a strong content and community track record
• Hands-on technical skills. You can read code, spin up prototypes, and have meaningful conversations with engineers about system design, APIs, and infrastructure. You do not need to be a full-time developer, but you need to go deep enough to be credible
• Exceptional writing skills. You can take a complex technical topic and turn it into a blog post, case study, or thread that people actually want to read
• Strong public speaking ability. You are comfortable presenting to 50 people at a meetup or 500 at a conference. You hold a room and make technical content accessible
• Solid video production and editing skills. You can plan, shoot, and edit video content end-to-end. You understand pacing, storytelling in video format, and platform-specific best practices
• An active social media presence. You already engage with the tech community online and have a feel for what content resonates with engineers and builders
• Event management experience. You have organized tech events, community meetups, or hackathons before and know what makes them work
• Strong sense of storytelling. You can take raw technical detail and weave it into a narrative that is compelling, honest, and worth someone’s time

Why This Role Matters

• Razorpay is building some of the most interesting tech in India’s payments and fintech space. The engineering work is strong, but we have not told that story well enough. This role changes that
• You will define and build Razorpay’s engineering brand from the ground up. The playbook does not exist yet. You write it
• Direct access to leadership and engineering teams. No layers of approval. You identify a great story, you go tell it
• You will shape how top engineering talent perceives Razorpay. The content you create and the events you run directly influence who wants to come work here
• This is a high-visibility role. Your work will be seen by the broader tech ecosystem in India and beyond

The Role:

A Staff Engineer at Razorpay is well-grounded - wise, 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 expected to be involved in almost every project and also influence the culture of the company and help shape it in the right way.

Job Location: Gurgaon

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Drive the technology and engineering best practices on different fronts like quality, performance, design, and operations at the organizational level
• Responsible for design, architecture, and delivery of a feature or component/product with the highest quality with high-level directions from architects
• Drive technology innovations & remaining ahead of the curve
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end products & features
• Demonstrate ability to multi-task and re-prioritize responsibilities based on changing requirements
• Estimate efforts, identify risks, devices and meets project schedules
• Runs review meetings effectively and drives the closure of all open issues on time
• Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise within team and cross-team.
• Mentor/coach engineers to facilitate their development and provide technical leadership to them
• Rise above detail to see broader issues and implications for the whole product/team & Implement a long-term technology vision for your organization & team
• Contribute to streamlining hiring challenges and helping hire high-quality engineers for the organization
• Represent organization and team  in external & internal forums, respectively

Mandatory Qualifications:

• 8-12 years of strong design/development experience in building massively large-scale distributed internet systems and products
• Deep expertise in more than one programming language and tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code
• Experience leading & mentoring project teams 
• Strong Object-oriented skills, knowledge of design patterns, and uncanny ability to design intuitive modules and class-level interfaces.
• Deep understanding of data-driven web application design and development
• Superior organization, communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
• Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoys challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast-growing, and start-up workplace
• Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in a fluid environment
• Must be excited by challenges surrounding the development of massively scalable & distributed system
• Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
• The experience of having been a software engineer for at least 10 years.
• 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