
A SaaS startup founded in April 2020.
What’s the opportunity?
Are you a backend developer looking to fast-track your learning and growth? Have you looked at world-class products like Asana, Notion, or Airtable, and felt “I wish I were part of the early team that built these products”?
We’re a team that has previously built and rolled out globally successful SaaS products used by tens of thousands of customers.
We’re laser-focused on delivering a world-class product again, and looking for an ambitious backend engineer to join our existing team of 9 engineers.
If it excites you to think of a fast-paced start-up environment, building something big from scratch, breaking down new problems, creating new APIs, working on performance issues, getting hands-on with DevOps initiatives, and showcasing demos of your work every Friday with a happy and passionate team, then this is the right opportunity for you.
Some of the tech problems you get to work on as a backend engineer would be to build the backend for a modern spreadsheet experience from scratch, work on infra as code, write robust code that is fault-tolerant, work on performant code that adheres to SLOs set by the organization.
About you:
● 3- 5 years of experience
● Expertise in the following areas ○ Java ○ HTTP Protocol
● You’ve heard of or worked with some of the following tech stacks/products
○ Spring
○ PostgreSQL
○ Redis ○ Docker
○ Message brokers
○ GitHub
● These non-functional areas are familiar to you
○ Performance
○ Debugging
○ Log management
Nice to have:
● Familiarity with AWS
What’s in it for you?
● Great opportunity: We genuinely care about everyone we hire. You’ll learn new things and grow no matter how experienced you are; you will be working with founders who have more than three decades of collective experience in building significant B2B SaaS startups.
● Great team: Work with a world-class, high-velocity team that truly embodies the values of empathy, curiosity, and customer-centricity. Check out the MTT(Meet The Team) videos on our LinkedIn.
● Great culture: An open, fun, and exciting startup culture that empowers its people to champion big problems with the freedom to think and innovate.
● Growth: You could easily and quickly transition into other roles you might like.
● Impact: You get to be part of a global, passionate team in a fast-paced and growth-oriented environment. The team has a work philosophy of being high on ambition, ownership, and a bias for action.
● Monetary rewards and benefits: Competitive stipend, flexible leave policy, and more

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What are we looking for?
We are looking for hands-on coders who love what they do, have high attention to detail and are looking for challenging opportunities which involve building products from scratch. Someone who is proactive, and always keen to learn.
What will you be doing?
On a daily basis, some of your work will involve but is not limited to:
- Write clean, secure, and well-tested code
- Build tools and integrate systems to scale the effectiveness of the product
Work Culture at Merge:
Commitment to excellence - In every output, we produce as individuals and as a company, we have to strive for world-class quality. We’re making a change in the world. It will push us out of our comfort zones. We operate in a rapidly changing market and strive to deliver high-quality products faster than anyone else.
We get it done - We take ownership of what we do. Working here is about really, truly owning everything you do. There’s no such thing as “Not my job.” If you see a problem that needs solving, you can – and should – be the one to solve it
Requirements
Skills That Will Help You Excel At Merge
- You have 2 to 5 years of experience building highly reliable and scalable backend systems
- Experience in two or more languages. Go, Node.js, Python, or Java would be ideal.
- You have experience in high-throughput distributed systems and microservices
- Experience with AWS and CI/CD workflow
- Driven, and passionate about building products
- You take ownership of your code
- You have good communication skills in English
- You are familiar with security best practices
Senior Software Engineer, Java/Python (Bangalore, Remote option available)
4+ years of experience
Zepto
Why should you look at this role?
Salary 40-55 lakh per annum
Paid leave
Sick leave
Provident Fund
What Else?
- High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
- Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
- Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!
Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)
About the Employer
Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!
Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee
investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.
The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.
Funding:
Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.
Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.
Employer Reviews:
“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”
"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."
Reporting structure:
Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO
This role would be by and large a Individual Contributor role.
Interview Process:
- Round 1. Problem Solving + CS Fundamentals (60 mins)
- DS/Algo Problems (30 mins) - You can expect 1-2 Leetcode easy/medium questions
- CS Fundamentals (30 mins)
- Round 2. Low Level Design (60 mins)
- You would be given a trivial problem and expected to work through the low level design viz class structure, interfaces, db data models etc.
- Round 3. High Level Design (60 mins)
- You will be given a trivial problem, where we would work with you to design the system for the problem statement. We expect the detailed flow of the Functionality
- Extract APIs, if any
- Database choices
- Schema design and Scale the system, if time permits
- You will be given a trivial problem, where we would work with you to design the system for the problem statement. We expect the detailed flow of the Functionality
What You will do Everyday?
- Work very closely with the Tech Leadership and lead end-to-end development.
- Closely collaborate with product, design and business teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver these as a series of ultra fast experiments.
- Architect and implement backend services with high reliability and scalability.
- Contribute to system architecture and database design.
- Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
- Write quality documentation and handle conflicts well to build consensus.
- Learn about new technologies and incorporate them.
- Mentor young minds and foster team spirit
Your Superpowers
- 4+ years of experience with Java frameworks like Spring / Dropwizard/Play or Python frameworks like Django/Flask/FastApi and databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB
- Experience in building highly scalable customer-facing applications that involve implementing complex business flows and dealing with an ever-increasing scale
- Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
- Experience in service-oriented architecture design.
- Experience building at least one application from scratch.
- Experience with cache store/message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ/Kafka
- Interest in learning new languages/framework as needed.
- Worked in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
- A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most importantly, you should be fun to work with.
Come and Join the future.
This is an opportunity to work directly with Industry experts having 20+ years of experience in Technology and product development.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Developing front end website architecture.
- Designing user interactions on web pages.
- Developing back end website applications.
- Creating servers and databases for functionality.
- Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
- Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
- Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
- Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
- Designing and developing APIs.
- Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
- Staying abreast of developments in web applications
Desired Candidate Profile
- Strong organizational and project management skills.
- Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, and React JS.
- Proficiency with server-side languages like Nodejs, and Expressjs.
- Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Postgresql or MongoDB.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Good problem-solving skills.
- Attention to detail.
Qualification & Experience
- A Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
- M-Tech or advanced degree a plus Hackathon participation and accolades are a plus.
- Total Exp- 6-8 years with minimum 6+ years of professional software development experience on Java / J2EE
- Full SDLC experience (Requirements Gathering, Architecture, System Design, Development, QA, etc…)
- Experience with Spring Boot/Spring Framework ( IOP/DI, REST, Security)
- Experience with SOAP / REST web services Knowledge of SQL
- Knowledge of No SQL concepts.
- Work experience on Apache SOLR , REDIS / Relevant Cache Manager , Lucene , Elastic Search .
- Mongo DB & Postgres DB / RDBMS is desirable
- Understanding concepts of CDN & Content Management
- Must have worked on any one messaging solutions like Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Bonus Points for Micro Service Design and Development experience
- Used Agile methodology / Scrum
- Experience leading or working with cross geography teams
- Bonus Points for experience working on Unix, Shell Scripting & Build Systems
- Experience in performance optimization is an added advantage
Responsibilities:
-You will be actively involved during the entire technology development lifecycle.-
Responsibilities will include all aspects from design, coding, testing, customer feedback cycle changes and support. Primary role in software development with object-oriented Java.
-The customized solutions that you will be architecting and developing will also require knowledge and experience with Spring / Spring Boot / Hibernate / ORM Concepts, SOAP / REST, and SQL / No SQL.
-Ability to learn new technologies quickly and willingness to read and digest large existing source code and take Ownership on complex component or subsystem to drive improvements and Re- Architecture. --Work with a team of amazing developers and designers involved in the -design and development of global platforms.
Invent and prototype new features, build, test and ship them to customers as SaaS, Cloud Based or hosted product platforms
Drive the implementation of new technologies which improve our ability to build great customers products. Participate in a fun, open learning environment with great benefits and smart talented folks that represent among the best globally.
Job Requirements-
Mandatory:
1. 2 - 3 years of J2EE experience
2. Clear understanding and application knowledge of Object-Oriented concepts
3. Experienced in Core Java, Collection Framework, exception handling, logging frameworks
4. Knowledge of Struts/Spring/Springboot framework or any ORM tools like Hibernate, JPA mandatory
5. Knowledge of SQL
Desirable to have:
1. Code review tools like pmd, sonar, Checkstyle
2. Knowledge of writing unit testing using Junit, Jmock, DBUnit etc.,
3. Knowledge to build scripts using ant, maven
4. Exposure to Agile Model
5. Exposure to BFSI domain
Team Handling/Generic skills
1. Self-driven, ready to learn and adapt depending on customer/organization needs
2. Excellent communication skills
Share resumes at ruchika@ netconnectglobal.com
Proficient with full development stack (MySQL, Redis, Memcached, MVC frameworks, jQuery, Server Administration, CSS, HTML, etc) and understanding of OOP design, AJAX, jQuery, and MySQL
Understands how to build an optimized web app and has experience with caching and other scaling techniques
The desire and energy to work long hours so that we can continuously improve our website at the quickest pace possible
Passionate about working in a startup and creating a great product
Must love to program, must be willing to learn, and must be creative. If you are the type of person who finds learning a new technology or language an exhilarating experience, you will love it here.
Must be able to show us projects and or websites that you have created. Bonus points if you’ve created these projects/websites outside of your work (we love seeing proof of how much you love technology and coding).
Education - relevant degree in Engineering preferable
What is the role?
You will be focusing on development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database. With your expertise in Node.js and as a full stack developer you will be managing the interchange of data between the server and the users.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop SaaS-based applications based on microservices architecture
- Driving innovations in the platform constantly
- Estimate efforts, identify risks, devices and meets project schedules
- Mentors/coaches engineers and provide technical leadership
What are we looking for?
An enthusiastic individual with the following skills. Please do not hesitate to apply if you do not match all of it. We are open to promising candidates who are passionate about their work and are team players.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 3-6 years of strong design/development experience in building massively large-scale distributed internet systems and products
- Strong understanding of DevOps tasks, CI/CD
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Have keen eye to detail
- Displayed effectiveness in being a team player, have a proven track record of performance
- Enjoys working on challenging assignments and is result oriented
- Self-starter, self-motivated and work with minimal supervision
- Agile and display flexibility in swiftly adapting to change in work requirement
Strong proficiency in –
- JavaScript, Node.js and frameworks available for it
- Code versioning tools, such as Git
- NoSQL and RDBMS systems
- Push-pull systems like Kafka, Redis
- Data structures & algorithms skills
Good to have experience –
- Programming languages like Python, Golang, ReactJs
Be familiar with –
- Designing highly available solutions, fault-tolerant systems, microservices architecture, REST APIs for on-premises, cloud (Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure), or hybrid infrastructure.
- Modern container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes
- Server-side templating languages such as Jade, EJS etc
- Open source software, frameworks, and broader cutting-edge technologies
Whom will you work with?
You will closely work with the engineering team and support the Product Team of Plum.
What can you look for?
A wholesome opportunity in a fast paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, interact and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. This role will help you learn what and how ledgers work in a high volume traffic system. Will learn microservice for a high availability system. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.
We are
A fast growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners or consumers for better business results.
Way forward
We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.










