Engineering Manager

An Engineering Manager at Razorpay is well-grounded, innovative, quality-focused, a product thinker, and business-conscious - not mere coders, of course, but people 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.

Responsibilities:

Ability to attract and hire top-notch engineering talent for the organisation.

Be responsible for the group's technical strategy and roadmap, creating success metrics in close collaboration with other groups across the organisation 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, and 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.

Requirements:

Total of 7+ years' experience.

Experience level of 3+ years in very large-scale applications and 1 year's 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:

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.