Pankaj Goel, a former Razorpay senior executive, has been named chief technology officer of BharatPe Group. Pankaj was the head of payments engineering at Razorpay before joining BharatPe.

According to a statement issued by BharatPe on Wednesday, he will report to Nalin Negi, the company's chief financial officer and interim CEO.

"With a seasoned engineering leader like Pankaj joining the team, we are confident that we will be able to build best-in-class fintech products that will further enable the next level of growth for the BharatPe Group of Companies," added Negi.

Goel has held executive positions at firms such as Intuit, Trilogy, and Sun Microsystems.

BharatPe is a financial technology startup established in New Delhi that creates payment apps for businesses. It was established in 2018, and its services are now available in over 225 cities across India. The company creates solutions exclusively for offline merchants in India and claims to be a one-stop business utility for them.

The firm has created a financial solution for small businesses in a variety of industries, including retail, restaurants, and beauty. Users can get the app (which has the same name as the company) via Google Play or the App Store. Merchants can then utilise the app's QR code to accept payments from customers via unified payments apps (UPI) like PhonePe, Google Pay, and PayTM.