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Razorpay Interview Questions 2026: SDE, Backend & Coding Guide
Razorpay interview questions for SDE 1, SDE 2, and full stack roles. Covers coding OA, system design, technical interview, and hiring process for India's leading fintech.
Razorpay hires SDE 1 and SDE 2 for its Bengaluru fintech platform. Here is the complete interview guide — OA coding, system design, technical rounds, and preparation strategy.
Razorpay interview process overview
Razorpay typically conducts 3-4 rounds: online coding assessment, 2 technical interviews, and a hiring manager round. The process takes 1-2 weeks.
OA: 2 coding problems (medium/hard) on HackerRank/CodeSignal. 75 minutes. Focus on DSA and problem-solving.
Technical round 1: Coding problem + CS fundamentals (OS, DBMS, OOP, computer networks).
Technical round 2: System design or harder coding problem + project deep dive.
Hiring manager: Behavioral, culture fit, why Razorpay, compensation.
Razorpay coding questions (previous year)
Array + hash map: frequency counting, two-sum variations, group anagrams
Tree + graph: BST operations, graph traversal, shortest path
DP: coin change, LIS, edit distance
String: regex matching, substring search, compression
Check Razorpay previous year coding questions on Apply PYQs for exact problems.
System design at Razorpay
Design a payment gateway — handle webhooks, idempotency, retry logic
Design a subscription billing system — recurring payments, invoicing
Design a loan eligibility system — credit scoring, risk assessment
Key concepts: distributed systems, ACID vs BASE, message queues, caching strategies
How to prepare for Razorpay interviews
Solve 60+ medium/hard LeetCode problems. Razorpay asks real DSA problems, not just easy ones.
Understand payment systems: gateways, UPI, cards, net banking, settlement, reconciliation.
Prepare 2 strong projects — Razorpay values builders and side projects.
Practice with Apply's mock interview at /mock-interview with company set to Razorpay.
How Apply helps for Razorpay
Tailor your resume with Razorpay JD keywords (React, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Kafka). Browse Razorpay PYQs at /pyqs.