Staff Software Development Engineer

• A Staff Engineer at Razorpay is well-grounded wise, quality focused, 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

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