Lead Data Engineer

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, weve 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

We are looking for a savvy Lead Data Engineer to join our growing team, responsible for expanding and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing our company’s data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture
• Create and maintain events/streaming based architecture/design
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS ‘big data’ technologies.
• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
• Work with data scientists to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.
  
  
  

Mandatory Qualifications

• We are looking for a candidate with 5+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role.
• Experience with big data tools: HDFS/S3, Spark/Flink,Hive,Hbase, Kafka/Kinesis, etc.
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Elasticsearch and Cassandra/Mongodb.
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
• Experience with AWS /GCP cloud services
• Experience with stream-processing systems: Spark-Streaming/Flink etc.
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Java, Scala, etc.
• Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets.
• Strong analytic skills related to working with structured/unstructured datasets.
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, dimensional modeling, metadata, dependency, schema registration/evolution and workload management.
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
• 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
  
  
  

Razorpay believes in and follows an equal employment opportunity policy that doesnt 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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Razorpay believes in and follows an equal employment opportunity policy that doesnt discriminate on gender, religion, sexual orientation, colour, nationality, age, etc. We welcome interests and applications from all groups and communities across the globe.

Follow us on LinkedIn & Twitter

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