Joining Razer will place you on a global mission to revolutionize the way the world games. Razer is a place to do great work, offering you the opportunity to make an impact globally while working across a global team located across 5 continents. Razer is also a great place to work, providing you the unique, gamer-centric #LifeAtRazer experience that will put you in an accelerated growth, both personally and professionally.

Job Responsibilities :

We are seeking a highly motivated Software Engineer to design, develop, and enhance mission-critical payment platform services. This role contributes to building scalable, secure, and high-performance transaction processing systems supporting merchant integrations, payment routing, settlement workflows, and financial data services.

The engineer will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable backend services while actively leveraging modern engineering practices including automation, observability, and AI-assisted development and research initiatives.

This position also supports continuous innovation efforts in platform modernization, performance optimization, and intelligent tooling to improve engineering productivity and system resilience.

Key Responsibilities:

Application Development & Platform Engineering

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and integrations supporting payment transaction flows.
• Implement scalable and resilient software components capable of handling high transaction throughput and concurrent processing.
• Maintain and enhance existing legacy systems while contributing to modernization initiatives.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following secure coding standards and engineering best practices.
• Participate in system design discussions including performance optimization, database design, and distributed processing strategies.

Production Reliability & Support

• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive improvements.
• Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams to ensure applications meet availability, latency, and reliability targets.
• Support operational readiness including monitoring improvements, alert tuning, and deployment validation.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to reduce system risk and improve service uptime.

Engineering Collaboration & Delivery

• Work closely with Product, QA, DevOps, and Integration teams to deliver new payment features and enhancements.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and delivery tracking.
• Conduct peer code reviews to maintain high code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Maintain technical documentation including architecture notes, integration guidelines, and operational runbooks.
• Other duties as assigned

AI-Assisted Development & R&D Innovation

• Leverage AI-powered developer tools to improve code quality, accelerate development cycles, and automate repetitive engineering tasks.
• Participate in research and experimentation on AI use cases such as:
  • automated code refactoring and legacy modernization
  • intelligent log analysis and anomaly detection
  • AI-assisted test case generation and coverage improvement
  • performance optimization recommendations
  • developer productivity analytics
  • automated documentation generation
• Collaborate with R&D teams to prototype intelligent platform capabilities such as predictive scaling signals, fraud pattern insights, or operational automation workflows.
• Contribute feedback and best practices on responsible and secure AI adoption in software engineering processes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Minimum 3 years experience in backend software development.
• Strong experience with LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP) or similar backend technologies.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs, integration services, and data processing components.
• Solid understanding of:
  • data structures and algorithms
  • database performance and query optimization
  • asynchronous processing or queue-based workflows
  • system scalability and reliability concepts
• Experience using version control systems such as Git.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in Payment Gateway, FinTech, Banking, or high-transaction platforms.
• Exposure to payment integrations, reconciliation workflows, or financial reporting systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience working with:
  • Redis / CouchDB / MongoDB
  • messaging systems (RabbitMQ / Kafka)
  • observability tools
• Exposure to AI coding assistants, automation tools, or developer productivity platforms.

Pre-Requisites :

Razer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that diverse teams drive better ideas, better products, and a stronger culture. We are committed to providing an inclusive, respectful, and fair workplace for every employee across all the countries we operate in. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, ancestry, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, marital status, or any other characteristic protected under local laws. Where needed, we provide reasonable accommodations - including for disability or religious practices - to ensure every team member can perform and contribute at their best.

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