Job description 

The Role:

The Manager, Product Development Engineering, is a critical engineering leadership role that is well-grounded—innovative, quality-focused, a product thinker, and business-conscious—not mere coders, of course, with deeper technical context and experience to build quality software.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Ability to attract and hire top-notch engineering talent for the organisation.
• Be responsible for the group's technical strategy and roadmap - creating success metrics in close collaboration with other groups across the organisation in executing initiatives in an agile way.
• Collaborate with external partners to ensure timely delivery of products. 
• 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. 

Requirements:

• Total of 8+ years' experience.
• Experience level of 3+ years of experience in very large scale applications and 1+ years' experience in people management.
• Strong problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with distributed systems handling large amounts of data.
• Has Prior experience on Java & Spring Boot Applications. 
• Very good understanding of Web Technologies.
• Very good understanding of any RDBMS and/or messaging.
• Very good understanding of AWS and Kubernetes.