Senior Director of Engineering

The Role:

The Senior Director of Engineering at Razorpay is expected to bring exceptional leadership, communication, and people leadership skills and will operate with vision and integrity. Some of the responsibilities include crafting company and unit-level goals, aligning engineering activities to achieve them, providing expert guidance and support, approving newly developed policies, and building, and maintaining positive relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. DoE will have experience identifying and navigating organizational changes, a keen interest in Indian trends in engineering and leadership, and high emotional intelligence.

Roles and Responsibilities: • We believe in Impact creation at scale, so it is imperative for the Director. • Ability to attract and hire top-notch Engineering talent for the organization. • Be responsible for the group’s technical and business 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, 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.

Mandatory Qualifications: • Total of 15+ years' experience. • Experience level of 7+ years of experience in very large scale applications and 6+ years' experience in people management. • Strong problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms. • Experience with distributed systems handling large amounts of data. • Good internal understanding of coding 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