Senior Software Development Engineer
Summary
Senior Software Development Engineer at Razorpay Curlec (fintech/payments) in Kuala Lumpur, building and scaling payment infrastructure and developer-facing REST APIs, improving reliability via monitoring and automation, and shaping product direction. Work spans backend languages such as PHP, Python/Django, Golang, Java, or C++.
Razorpay today processes $150 Billion+ payments for 10 million+ businesses across 4 continents. The company enables businesses to accept, process, and disburse payments at scale, while helping them manage their finances. We are the leading Payments and Neobanking provider in India and are one of the fastest growing payments providers across South East Asia. We have been the first to bring to market major innovations in India and Malaysia.
Razorpay has raised USD $700M+ in funding till date from marquee investors like GIC, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, Ribbit Capital, YC, Matrix Partners and many stellar angels.
As part of its ambitious growth strategy in Southeast Asia, Razorpay acquired Curlec in Malaysia. Since making the acquisition, Curlec by Razorpay has received an acquiring license by Bank Negara and is a registered member of Paynet. The Malaysia market presents a unique opportunity for Razorpay Curlec due to its rapid digitalization and growing e-commerce ecosystem. Razorpay Curlec aims to become the preferred payment partner for businesses across Malaysia, offering them the same level of reliability, security, and convenience that has made Razorpay a trusted name in India. We also live in Singapore with plans of expansion to Thailand, Indonesia and the rest of SEA.
About the Role
A Senior Software Development Engineer at Razorpay Curlec is well-grounded - smart, quality focussed, product thinker, business conscious - not mere coders, of course, with very good technical context and experience to write and build quality software. Engineering creates a significant impact across different areas, considering the scale of our software product outreach. You’re also expected to influence the culture of the company and help shape it in the right way.
Responsibilities
- Be involved and drive product & design discussions.
- Help us scale our payment infrastructure to get every Malaysian to pay online.
- Help us make decisions to shape our REST APIs for developers worldwide.
- Contribute to open source as we set the standards for mobile payments.
- Be involved and drive product & design discussions.
- And, most importantly, brainstorm and create new directions that Razorpay can take in our quest to make online payments easy and accessible to all.
- Improve system reliability through monitoring, alerting, logging, and automated recovery.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in Technology.
- Good experience in working with any of the programming languages like PHP, Python, Django, Golang, Java, C++
- Understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases and come up with effective solutions.
- Good understanding of REST APIs and the web in general.
- Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion.
- A willingness to learn new technology, whatever lets you deliver the best product.
- Have a few weekend side projects up on GitHub
- Have contributed to an open-source project
- Have worked at a product company
- Have a working knowledge of a backend programming language
- Have worked with AI Code builders like Cursor,Claude etc will be a plus.