Razorpay was founded by Shashank Kumar and Harshil Mathur in 2014. Razorpay is building a new-age digital banking hub (Neobank) for businesses in India with the mission is to enable frictionless banking and payments experiences for businesses of all shapes and sizes. What started as a B2B payments company is processing billions of dollars of payments for lakhs of businesses across India.
We are a full-stack financial services organisation, committed to helping Indian businesses with comprehensive and innovative payment and business banking solutions built over robust technology to address the entire length and breadth of the payment and banking journey for any business. Over the past year, we've disbursed loans worth millions of dollars in loans to thousands of businesses. In parallel, Razorpay is reimagining how businesses manage money by simplifying business banking (via Razorpay X) and enabling capital availability for businesses (via Razorpay Capital).
The Role:
As a Frontend Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of frontend developers to deliver high-quality, scalable, and user-friendly web applications. You will play a critical role in guiding the technical direction, driving innovation, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects on time and within budget. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and backend engineers, to create exceptional user experiences and drive the continuous improvement of our frontend development processes.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and inspire a team of frontend developers, fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment that encourages individual growth and team cohesion.
- Technical Direction: Provide technical guidance and expertise to the team, ensuring the use of best practices, coding standards, and the adoption of the latest frontend technologies.
- Project Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of frontend projects, collaborating closely with product managers and stakeholders to define project scope, requirements, and timelines.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure the team consistently produces high-quality code and applications by conducting code reviews, promoting automated testing, and implementing continuous integration and deployment processes.
- Performance Optimization: Identify and address performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities to ensure our web applications are fast, efficient, and scalable.
- User Experience: Collaborate with designers and product managers to create intuitive, accessible, and visually appealing user interfaces that align with user needs and business objectives.
- Innovation and Research: Stay up-to-date with industry trends, frontend technologies, and best practices, and drive innovation within the team to enhance development processes and user experiences.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with backend engineering teams, QA teams, and other stakeholders to ensure seamless integration and end-to-end delivery of features and projects.
- Issue Resolution: Act as an escalation point for resolving technical issues and challenges, providing hands-on support to the team when necessary.
- Performance Management: Conduct regular performance evaluations, provide feedback, and identify areas for improvement to enhance the overall effectiveness of the frontend team.
Mandatory Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of proven experience in frontend development, including expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js).
- 2+ years of previous experience in a leadership or management role, guiding and motivating a team of frontend developers.
- Strong understanding of software development methodologies, design patterns, and best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to manage projects from inception to completion while meeting deadlines and budgetary constraints.
- Experience with performance optimization, code review processes, and automated testing.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- A passion for delivering exceptional user experiences and driving continuous improvement in frontend development processes.
- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, dynamic work environment and handle multiple priorities effectively.
Good to have:
We also expect the following, but we accept that you can be an absolutely great developer without fulfilling the below. So go ahead and apply even if the following isn’t applicable:
- Experience with responsive design and mobile-first development.
- Familiarity with backend technologies and RESTful APIs.
- Knowledge of UX/UI design principles and user-centred design methodologies.
- Familiarity with agile development methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
Location: Bangalore
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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What We Do
Power your finance, grow your business.
Razorpay is India’s first full-stack financial solutions company. We are on a mission to enhance the payment experience of over 300 million end consumers. And in doing so, we aim to enable Indian businesses - big and small - accept payments digitally with minimal effort and maximum ease.
Razorpay has grown from being a payment gateway provider to a solutions-driven organization boasting of an extensive products suite to accept and disburse payments as well as raise capital and park money. In a nutshell, we fit into every nook and corner where your business touches money.
#OutgrowOrdinary
We identify ourselves as disruptors in the digital payments space and our vision is to power the financial ecosystem for other disruptors. Like attracts like and Razorpay actively looks to partner with established companies and startups that have either broken the glass ceiling in their industry or are set to.
The Razorpay Product Suite today comprises verticals, along with Payment Gateway, like Payment Links, Payment Pages, Subscriptions, Smart Collect, Route, Razorpay Capital, RazorpayX, Payroll and Thirdwatch.
Razorpay was started in 2014 by two IIT Roorkee alumni, Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar. Just a short few years later, Razorpay has evolved into a 800-odd strong organization with some of the best talents in the country helping some of the best companies manage their money movement seamlessly.
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We are a bunch of spirited, ambitious and fun folks. And no, we’re not saying this ourselves--leading institutions have recognized Razorpay for the high trust and high-performance culture that we maintain.
Our strength lies in the people we are and we go to great lengths to nurture a family of coders, designers, sellers, marketers, analysts, writers, runners, photographers, gamers, tinkerers, and above all, people who are dreamers and doers at the same time. Be a part of our exciting journey.
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