Senior Software Development Engineer

Overview

Senior Software Development Engineer at Razorpay to scale payment infrastructure, shape REST APIs used by developers worldwide, and drive product and design discussions as well as implementation.

What you'll 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

What you'll need

• 3+ years of experience in technology
• Strong product design sense, thinking about the user and 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, used actively and not occasionally
• Ability to decompose problems into structured, constrained prompts with clear expected outcomes
• Critical review mindset: own every line of AI-generated code, spot hallucinations, incorrect assumptions, and security gaps
• Strong LLD depth before agent use: design first, delegate second
• Awareness of where AI helps and where it fails, and the judgment to know the difference

Nice to have

• 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

Details

• Location: Bengaluru