About the Role:

A Lead Software Development Engineer (Lead SDE) at Razorpay is a well-grounded, innovative, quality-focused product thinker and business-conscious engineer - not a mere coder. Armed with deep technical context and extensive experience, you will build production-grade, highly scalable software and see nuances and edge cases that others might overlook.
At our scale, engineering creates a massive impact across global digital payments. Beyond technical excellence, you are expected to operate with a solid ownership mindset in ambiguous environments, act as a technical leader, mentor peers, and actively influence and shape Razorpay’s culture in the right way.

What you will build:

• Architecture & Design Thinking: Drive ambiguous requirements into clean, low-level designs (LLD) with clear interfaces, data flows, and non-functional requirements (NFRs) before execution.
• Engineering Leadership & AI Augmentation: Act as the "tech lead of an AI agent loop".



Lead development by utilizing AI-augmented workflows and engineering assistants strategically—handling prompt decomposition, constraint management, and rigorous code validation.
• Scalable Systems Delivery: Build full-fledged applications and payment infrastructure from scratch, driving features to completion. Transition systems seamlessly across complex architectural scales.
• Code Quality & Integrity: Maintain high-quality implementation standards with clean abstractions, SOLID principles, and modular, maintainable code. Take full ownership of all code codebases, performing independent navigation, debugging, and strict verification without AI assistance when required.
• Product & API Strategy: Actively participate in and drive product and design discussions. Shape our public-facing REST APIs for developers worldwide and brainstorm new directions to make online payments easy and accessible.
• Robust Testing & Resilience: Implement comprehensive verification strategies—including unit, integration, adver

📌 Lead Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Razorpay
📍 Bengaluru