
Key Responsibilities:
● Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and secure backend systems using Java.
● Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices to support application functionality.
● Collaborate closely with frontend developers to ensure smooth integration with React/Angular-based frontend systems.
● Work with both relational databases (SQL) and NoSQL databases to design data schemas, optimize queries, and maintain data integrity.
● Leverage cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) to deploy, monitor, and scale applications.
● Implement and maintain containerization using Docker and Kubernetes (K8S).
● Write unit tests for both backend and frontend code to ensure code quality and reliability.
● Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality standards and mentor junior developers.
● Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, proposing and driving best practices in backend development, testing, and deployment.
Required Skills And Experience
● Bachelors or Masters in computer science or related fields.
● 5+ years of experience in backend development, with strong expertise in Java (must-have).
● Solid experience with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular.
● Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs, Docker, and NoSQL databases (such as MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.).
● Strong experience with SQL databases (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), including database design, optimization, and query writing.
● Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and Kubernetes (K8S).
● Experience in writing unit tests and understanding of test-driven development (TDD) principles.
● Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Nice to Have:
● Exposure to Automation Testing Frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress).
● Experience working in a SaaS (Software as a Service) environment.
● Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.

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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.



• Should have a B.Tech / M.Tech / MCA in CS / IT / IS from premier college with 6+
years of experience in software development.
• Strong OOPS and OOD Fundamentals.
• E-commerce domain experience of 2-3 Years is mandatory.
• Good Coding, Problem Solving Skills, algorithms and data structures.
• Knowledge of My SQL database or any other RDBMS with a good understanding of
SQL language.
• Prior experience in web technologies is a plus.
• Ability to work on UNIX / Linux platform.
• Good Communication & Interpersonal Skills.
Job Description :
• You will be involved in all phases of development : architecture & design,
prototyping, implementation & testing, analysis & documentation, deployment.
• Capable of independent full systems design, including requirements gathering,
specifications, and coding.
• Knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and
engineering best practices.
• Take the product/feature idea from the conceptualization phase to delivery with all
the relevant high-quality artifacts during the cycle.
• Flexibility and collaboration, coupled with strong object-oriented design & software
development skills are keys to success in this position.
Collaborate with clients and internal teams to develop appropriate solutions
• Brainstorm with team members and prove the ability to think on the fly.
Requirements
• Core Java
• Spring Boot, Spring Rest, Spring Data
• Testing framework - Junit, Mockito
• Experience in deploying applications on one of public cloud preferably Microsoft Azure. (Other
- AWS or Google Cloud)
• Experience in one of messaging platform preferably Kafka (Other - Rabbitmq or Active MQ)
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Others – Linux, Git, Maven, CI/CD pipeline
• Experience in working with Agile teams
Good To Have
• Git (6+ years of experience)
• Develop test cases, conduct SIT, load test, and tune the performance of systems to meet
acceptance criteria.
• Perform and manage stages of the SCRUM and participate in the systems review with Project
Lead/Manager.
• Experience in the development of cloud-native applications is an added advantage.
• Experience working in Agile teams
What We Offer
• National and International Business Trips (if there is an opportunity)
• Culture of Knowledge Sharing and Training
• Modern & lively working environment
• Opportunity to write books, participate in conferences
• International assignment
Frontend - Angular js, Javascript, JSP, added advantage for RIOTjs
Websocket technologies - Added advantage
Basic understanding of Apache Tomcat




