Engineering Manager
Lead and manage engineering teams at Razorpay, driving technical strategy and fostering a culture of excellence.
Posted by employer 3 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 days ago
Last verified on the company career page 8 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Attract and hire engineering talent
- Formulate and execute technical strategy
- Mentor direct reports
- Implement engineering processes
- Initiate cross-functional collaborations
Must have
- 10+ years experience
- 8+ years in large-scale applications
- 3+ years in people management
Role intensity
10% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
The Engineering Manager at Razorpay oversees multiple projects while building and managing diverse engineering teams. This role requires a strong technical background in large-scale applications, particularly with AWS EMR, Apache Spark, and data infrastructure, alongside proven leadership skills. Ideal candidates have over a decade of experience, including significant people management, and are adept at fostering a culture of engineering excellence. Razorpay emphasizes a collaborative environment where innovation thrives, making it suitable for those who value autonomy and impact.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 2 days ago — first seen on Joblaze September 21, 2026. Last confirmed on Razorpay's careers page September 23, 2026.
- AWS appears in 6.3% of 79 comparable lead management roles in India.
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Engineering Manager role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, AWS Kinesis, Airflow, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, DynamoDB.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Razorpay targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Engineering Manager role at Razorpay.
From the original posting
Razorpay is one of India’s leading full-stack financial technology companies, powering the way businesses move, manage, and grow money. Founded in 2014 by Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar with a simple vision - to simplify payments for Indian businesses - we’ve since grown into a fintech powerhouse driving India’s digital payment revolution.
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, 8+ years of experience in very large-scale applications, and 3+ years experience in actual people management.
- Lead and scale a high-performing engineering team tasked with architecting and owning our end-to-end Customer Data Platform (CDP) data infrastructure. Drive the design and execution of robust data pipelines optimized for both high-throughput batch reprocessing and low-latency, real-time audience segmentation.
Provide deep technical oversight and architectural direction utilizing AWS EMR, Apache Spark, Dynamo DB and complex DAG workflow orchestrations (e.g., Airflow). Establish operational standards for streaming data ingestion and stateful processing using modern event frameworks like AWS Kinesis or Apache Flink. - Experience with distributed systems handling large amounts of data.
- Very good understanding of Web Technologies, RDBMS and/or messaging.
Location: Bangalore
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