Senior Director, Engineering

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.

Razorpay powers millions of businesses with a smarter, scalable stack that goes beyond transactions to help them truly build and grow.

From building AI-native agentic payments, to AI-assisted fraud detection and real-time risk intelligence to automated reconciliation, smart payouts, and predictive financial insights, we are embedding intelligence across our stack to make money movement faster, safer, and more efficient. In close collaboration with ecosystem partners - including banks, networks, regulators - we are pioneering industry-first solutions that are shaping the next era of fintech

Across India, Singapore and Malaysia, our products span everything from seamless checkouts to payroll automation - powering a fintech ecosystem that’s redefining how money moves across Asia.

Today, that ecosystem supports everyone from early-stage startups to some of India’s largest enterprises, enabling them to accept, process, and disburse payments at scale while expanding into new ways of managing money more efficiently.

Our scale speaks volumes: Razorpay processes $180. billion in annualized transactions, powering leading businesses like Airbnb, Facebook, WhatsApp, Airtel, CRED, BookmyShow, Zomato, Swiggy, Lenskart, Mirae Asset Capital markets, Indian Oil, National Pension Scheme - and over 100 of India’s unicorns. With strong roots in India and growing operations in Southeast Asia, we are shaping the next chapter of financial technology across the region.

We are backed by global investors including GIC, Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India . SEA), Tiger Global, Ribbit Capital, Matrix Partners, MasterCard, and Salesforce Ventures, having raised over $740 million to date. Strategic acquisitions - including Ezetap (POS and offline payments), Curlec (Malaysia expansion), BillMe (digital invoicing), and POP (rewards-first UPI) - along with earlier moves in fraud prevention, payroll, and lending, have further strengthened our platform and widened our footprint across Asia.

But what truly sets Razorpay apart is our culture. At Razorpay, ownership is our oxygen - you own what you build, with no micromanagement or red tape, just the runway to make your ideas fly. Learning is a lifestyle - if you’re curious, you’ll feel at home here. People . Pedigree - we hire for attitude, hustle, and hunger more than degrees. Transparency thrives over titles - this is where interns question CXOs and CXOs say “thank you.” Guided by our values of Customer First, Autonomy . Ownership, Agility with Integrity, Transparency, Challenging the status quo and a strong belief that Razorpay grows with Razors, you’ll be part of a 3000. strong team building not just products, but the financial infrastructure of the future.

Senior Director Engineering, Data Engineering . Analytics About The Role At Razorpay, data is not a support function—it’s a core product enabler.

We’re looking for a Senior Director – Data who can operate at the intersection of platform, product, and intelligence—someone who can build, scale, and own the entire data ecosystem across Data Engineering, and Analytics.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll be expected to think like an architect, act like a builder, and lead like an owner. The candidate should be comfortable dawning multiple hats at the same time, and willing to roll up their sleeves, when needed.

What You’ll Do
Own the Data Vision

Build . Scale the Data Platform

Enable Data-Driven Culture

Collaborate Deeply

Raise the Bar on Execution

Experience What We’re Looking For

Technical Depth

Leadership-Adjacent Technical Depth

Mindset Fit (Important at Razorpay)

Engineer at heart – you enjoy getting into architecture and systems

Product and customer-first thinker – you care about impact, not just tech elegance

Bias for action – speed matters, perfection can wait

Comfort with ambiguity – you create structure where none exists

Customer obsession – every system should solve a real problem

Builder mentality – 0 → 1 and 1 → 10 excites you

What Success Looks Like

Razorpay believes in and follows an equal employment opportunity policy that doesn't discriminate on gender, religion, sexual orientation, colour, nationality, age, etc. We welcome interests and applications from all groups and communities across the globe.

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