Razorpay Engineering Hiring Success with Instahyre

Razorpay’s Hiring Journey

As Razorpay scaled into AI and pod-based velocity platforms, the engineering recruitment team faced a defining challenge, building high-complexity teams at business speed. Recruiters like Ravi needed a platform that could deliver serious, relevant senior talent without the manual screening burden slowing them down.

Success Numbers

• 90%+ profile relevancy across the candidate pipeline
• 3-4 days saved per hire cycle
• Closed lead SDEs, staff engineers, and EMs within 6 months

Challenges

• Staff and principal engineer roles stayed open for a longer time due to unmatched complexity and scalability needs
• Manual CV reviews wasted days on irrelevant candidates
• Other platforms lacked serious applicants who read job descriptions fully

How Instahyre Helped

• Active and passive talent pool delivered intentional applicants with 90%+ profile relevancy 
• InstaScreen custom questions filtered senior backend-heavy fullstack engineers, surfacing 3-4 manager-ready candidates with buffer offers per role, saving 3–4 days vs. CV screening

Results

• Closed lead SDEs, staff engineers, and Engineering Manager Roles
• Saved 3-4 days per hire cycle previously spent on manual CV screening
• Built a consistent, high-relevancy pipeline for Razorpay’s most complex engineering roles

Instahyre helps us out with a highly relevant candidate pipeline. Candidates who create profiles on Instahyre are serious, they go through the Job Description, the company profile, and come prepared for proper interviews. Pretty easy to hire from Instahyre. There’s no hustle involved; it’s quite straightforward.

Ravi Kumar

Associate Manager – Talent Acquisition, Razorpay