Swiggy

ABOUT THE TEAM:

The production engineering team is responsible for the key operational pillars (Reliability, Observability, Elasticity, Security, and Governance) of the Cloud infrastructure at Swiggy. We thrive to excel & continuously improve on these key operational pillars. We design, build, and operate Swiggy’s cloud infrastructure and developer platforms, to provide a seamless experience to our internal and external consumers.

What qualities are we looking for:

10+ years of professional experience in infrastructure, production engineering

Strong design, debugging, and problem-solving skills 

Proficiency in at least one programming language like Python, GoLang or Java. 

B Tech/M Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college.

Hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes or similar cloud/infrastructure platforms

Hands-on with DevOps principles and practices ( Everything-as-a-code, CI/CD, Test everything, proactive monitoring etc)

Deep understanding of OS/virtualization/Containerization, network protocols & concepts

Exposure to modern-day infrastructure technologies, expertise in building and operating distributed systems.

Hands-on coding on any of the languages like Python or GoLang.

Familiarity with software engineering practices including unit testing, code reviews, and design documentation.

Technically mentor and lead the team towards engineering and operational excellence

Act like an owner, strive for excellence.

What will you get to do here?

Be part of a Culture where Customer Obsession, Ownership, Teamwork, Bias for Action and Insist on High standards are a way of life

Coming up with the best practices to help the team achieve their technical tasks and continually thrive in improving the technology of the team 

Be a hands-on engineer, ensure frameworks/infrastructure built is well designed, scalable & are of high quality.

Build and/or operate platforms that are highly available, elastic, scalable, operable and observable

Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you can create.

Implementation of long-term technology vision for the team.

Build/Adapt and implement tools that empower the Swiggy engineering teams to self-manage the infrastructure and services owned by them.

You will identify, articulate, and lead various long-term tech vision, strategies, cross-cutting initiatives and architecture redesigns.

Design systems and make decisions that will keep pace with the rapid growth of Swiggy. Document your work and decision-making processes, and lead presentations and discussions in a way that is easy for others to understand.

Creating architectures & designs for new solutions around existing/new areas. Decide technology & tool choices for the team.

Responsibilities:

• Acting as an entrepreneur - taking ownership the problem statement end-to-end.

• Delivering direct value to the customer - and not just stop with internal delivery.

• Lead a diverse team of High performing Engineers - who set new standards everyday.

• Be a great engineer yourself - to be able to hire, mentor, and grow the engineering team.

• Estimate, plan, divide and conquer customer problem statements - through sturdily developed & performant technical solutions.

• Handle multiple competing priorities and ambiguity - all in a fast-paced, high growth environment.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience as an engineer or a lead - solving real world customer problems.

• 1-4 years of experience as a manager - having led high value delivering engineering teams.

• BE / B. Tech /M. Tech from a premier institute - preferably in Computer Science.

• Proven track record of building and managing high performing engineering teams.

• The ability to convince, negotiate and work with equally competent and smart stakeholders.

• Experience building complex technical solutions - highly scalable service-oriented architectures, distributed cloud-based systems - which power our FinTech products.

• Proven ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders.

Job Profile: Software Development Engineer IV - iOS - StoreFront team

Location: Bangalore | Karnataka

ABOUT THE TEAM & ROLE:

Swiggy's StoreFront Engineering team helps customers enjoy personalized discovery and purchase experience across multiple product lines (Stores, Food, Genie and Instamart). The team is enabling this by developing thoughtfully crafted applications, smart cataloging, relevance-based search & intent-driven merchandising, checkout management solutions, and payment systems.

We are looking for engineers who have hands-on experience in building highly reliable distributed systems and have deep expertise in database design & performance tuning. Knowledge of Machine Learning and other Predictive Modeling techniques will be added strength. Few interesting problems we are solving include:

1. Client-facing Applications

2. Smart Catalog & Category Intelligence

3. Personalized Search & Merchandising experience

4. Payments

5. Pricing

6. Order Management System

At Swiggy, SDE IV(s) play an integral role in owning end-to-end Design/Architecture of complex systems. They co-own the technology vision of the respective team and significantly contribute to the overall success of the team. They partner with the product/business teams to understand the product features and specifications, translate them into high level and low-level design thereby facilitating the team in design and development of mission critical applications.

What qualities are we looking for?

• Hands on experience in mobile application development for at least
• Hands on working experience in Swift
• Experience in multithreaded programming and memory optimization
• Ability to learn and grow in a fast paced setup
• Working knowledge of iOS Architectural Components and Design Patterns
• Very good debugging skills
• Good knowledge in implementing Pixel Perfect designs
• Good in Data Structures and Algorithm

What will you get to do here?

• Coming up with best practices to help the team achieve their technical tasks and continually thrive in improving the technology of the product/team
• Driving the adoption of best practices & regular Participation in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions
• Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you can create
• Implementation of long term technology vision for your team
• Responsible for complete architecture of your product
• Creating architectures & designs for new solutions around existing/new areas
• Decide technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them