Forward Deployed Engineer

Overview

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

What you'll do

• They want a partner/team who understands payments deeply, sits with their team, and makes their use cases work.
• That team comprises a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE).
• An FDE owns one merchant's technical destiny.
• You take a vague business ask and turn it into a concrete technical plan, then build and ship it, using both Razorpay's platform and our internal AI agents to move faster than any traditional team could.
• When you build something useful for one merchant, you feed the pattern back so the whole platform gets better.
• This is modelled on the role pioneered by Palantir and now run at OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks and Ramp, adapted for payments, and built AI-native from day one.
• What you will do Own a merchant's technical success.
• You are the single engineering face the merchant sees.

Requirements

• Roughly: Weight Area What we expect ~50% Engineering Strong, hands-on coder.
• Python and one of Java/Go/TypeScript.
• Production-grade code, not prototypes. ~30% Systems & deployment APIs, webhooks, integration patterns, cloud (AWS/GCP), debugging across distributed systems.
• Comfort with payments flows is a strong plus. ~20% Communication & ownership Can explain a complex system to a non-technical merchant lead.
• Turns vague asks into clear specs.
• Owns problems end-to-end without being told.
• Must-haves: SDE2+ level (4+ years for senior; exceptional candidates with less considered) Demonstrated end-to-end ownership, you have shipped something real, start to finish, ideally with

Skills