Android Developer

The Role:

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer (iOS) to join our Core Payments team at Razorpay. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and scaling our iOS SDK, the critical integration point used by thousands of merchants to process payments across multiple geographies.

You will work closely with product and backend engineering teams to design high-performance features, ensuring the SDK remains secure, lightweight, and developer-friendly. This role offers the opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges involved in building financial infrastructure that operates at massive scale.

Responsibilities:

• SDK Development: Contribute to the development of our native iOS SDK, ensuring high availability and seamless payment experiences for a diverse merchant base.
• Engineering Excellence: Write clean, maintainable, and modular code. Architect solutions that are resilient across different host app environments.
• Automation: Design and implement robust automation for tests, builds, and performance profiling. If a task is repetitive, you are expected to automate it.
• Instrumentation: Build deep telemetry within the SDK to provide real-time insights into success rates and latency, enabling data-driven product decisions.
• Security: Implement industry-standard security protocols, including SSL pinning and runtime integrity checks, to protect sensitive transaction data.

Mandatory Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in native iOS development using Swift.
• Systems Design: Solid understanding of OOPS principles and architectural patterns (e.g., MVVM, VIPER, or Clean Architecture).
• Cross-Platform Knowledge: Practical experience with bridge-based frameworks such as Flutter, React Native, or Cordova.
• Technical Depth: Strong proficiency in GCD, Swift Concurrency, and UIKit/SwiftUI lifecycles.
• Debugging: Proficiency in using Xcode Instruments for memory management, CPU profiling, and network debugging.

Good to Have:

• Android Stack Experience: Familiarity with Kotlin or Java is highly preferred to help maintain feature parity and align API design across platforms.
• Deployment & Tooling: Knowledge of CocoaPods, Swift Package Manager (SPM), or Fastlane for automated distribution.
• Open Source: Active contributions to GitHub or a portfolio of apps published on the App Store.

About the Role

A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based products and applications; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions. 

Role and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Understand the product requirements, ask questions, and gather information and feedback to design and deliver features both on Android and iOS.
• Create a roadmap of tasks to be delivered for both iOS and Android applications in sync, such that new features go to the end-user at same time. 
• Lead the design of Android and iOS applications in a modular fashion with reusable components.
• Proactively identify issues related to memory consumption, battery drain and multi-threading in the application by planning regular tests and analysis.
• Deliver Android and iOS applications with integration to backend services deployed on the cloud with high quality and responsiveness. 
• Create strong practices around test driven development, automating delivery of apps to the marketplace with strong CI/CD practices.
• Manage a highly skilled and efficient team by hiring, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment. Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.
• Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Hands on with programming with 50%+ of bandwidth going into modules owned.

Skills/Experience

• A highly talented developer with 10+ years of hands-on experience in building apps that have been released to the Play Store(Android) and Appstore(iOS). 
• Demonstrated experience managing teams of 5-10 or more engineers in mobile application teams.
• Strong knowledge of Android, Kotlin, iOS, Swift, Objective C and working with MVVM, MVP, MVC patterns.
• Experience building mobile applications which lean heavily on connecting to cloud services to gather data and stream videos/content. 
• Working knowledge of Xamarin or Flutter (cross platform frameworks) is highly preferred. 
• Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.