Marketplace Platform Engineer

Impact Analytics™ (Series D Funded) delivers AI-native SaaS solutions and consulting services that help companies maximize profitability and customer satisfaction through deeper data insights and predictive analytics. With a fully integrated, end-to-end platform for planning, forecasting, merchandising, pricing, and promotions, Impact Analytics empowers companies to make smarter decisions based on real-time insights rather than relying on last year’s inputs to forecast and plan this year’s business. Powered by over one million machine learning models, Impact Analytics has been leading AI innovation for a decade, setting new benchmarks in forecasting, planning, and operational excellence across the retail, grocery,

manufacturing, and CPG sectors. In 2025, Impact Analytics is at the forefront of the Agentic AI revolution, delivering autonomous solutions that enable businesses to adapt in real time, optimize operations, and drive profitability without manual intervention.

Here’s a link to our website: www.impactanalytics.co.

Impact Analytics builds AI-powered, Cloud-Native products and platforms. As we tackle increasingly complex backend challenges, we are looking for seasoned backend architects to collaborate with product and engineering teams in shaping the future of enterprise software.

Meet the Team: Rooted in AI and Engineering first principles, our cross-functional teams of ML and AI Engineers and Data Scientist thrive in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment. We emphasize collaboration, continuous learning, and high-impact delivery. Our backend teams specialize in modern frameworks, data platforms, infrastructure engineering, DevOps practices, and scalable service architectures. Top performers are recognized, valued, and supported with ample growth opportunities.

Role Overview: This is a senior-level, individual contributor role focused on hands-on technical leadership in backend architecture. The role is centered around three core areas:

● Drive complex backend architecture initiatives that span across multiple engineering and technology domains.

● Lead strategic R&D efforts to evaluate new backend technologies, frameworks, and methodologies, and champion their adoption company-wide. ● Spearhead our Multi-Cloud & Hybrid-Cloud backend strategies, ensuring scalable, secure, and resilient architecture patterns.

What our ideal candidate may look like:

● 14+ years of software development experience, with at least 4 years as an Architect or Staff Engineer role, particularly in backend systems.

● A backend technology expert with in-depth, hands-on experience in building and scaling enterprise SaaS with distributed architecture, In depth knowledge of Rest and Event driven architecture with low latency and high-throughput in memory systems.

● Designing stateful backend to handle large data including message broker, distributed queue, caching. Good understanding of High Availability and Disaster recovery for the critical production system.

● In depth understanding of Async, Multi Threading and Multi Processing Architecture to ensure our system efficiently use the programming principle for higher concurrency support

● Proficiency in following programming languages (Python, Rust), with a strong foundation in software engineering principles. Knowledge of Rust is a strong plus, especially in the context of high-performance, memory safety and ownership.

● Deep understanding of system design, database architecture (SQL & NoSQL), microservices, observability, resilience engineering, and secure coding practices.

● Exposure to big data platforms, stream processing, machine learning infrastructure, and multi-cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) is preferred.

● Excellent communicator and collaborator, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders.

● Proven experience mentoring engineers and guiding architectural decisions at scale.

What We Offer

● Opportunity to lead large, high-impact projects for global Fortune 500 clients.

● Work in a high-growth startup environment with a flat, collegial culture.

● Best-in-class remuneration and benefits.

● A platform for personal and professional growth with ownership and autonomy.

Some of our accolades include:

● Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Companies by Financial Times for five consecutive years: 2020-2024.

● Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. 5000 for seven consecutive years: 2018-2024.

● Voted #1 by more than 300 retailers worldwide in the RIS Software LeaderBoard 2024 report.

● Ranked #72 in America’s Most Innovative Companies list in 2023—by Fortune—alongside companies like Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, IBM, etc.

● Forged a strategic partnership with Google to equip retailers with cutting-edge generative AI tools.

● Recognized in multiple Gartner reports, including Market Guides and Hype Cycle, spanning assortments, merchandising, forecasting, algorithmic retailing, and Unified Price, Promotion, and Markdown Optimization Applications.

About the Role

We are looking for a strong software engineer who actively uses AI to build better software faster. This is a backend-heavy engineering role where LLMs and AI systems are integrated into real production applications.

You will design, build, deploy, and maintain AI-enabled systems, while maintaining strong engineering discipline and code quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable backend systems (Python / FastAPI preferred)
• Integrate LLM APIs, RAG pipelines, and AI workflows into production applications
• Deploy and maintain containerized applications on AWS/Azure
• Use AI coding assistants and agents to accelerate development, without compromising code quality
• Convert ambiguous requirements into production-ready systems

Must-Have Skills

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong Python backend experience
• Experience building REST APIs and production systems
• Solid understanding of system design and clean architecture
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Linux
• Experience deploying to AWS or Azure
• Experience integrating LLM APIs into applications
• Experience with embeddings / vector databases / RAG pipelines
• Strong Git and collaborative development workflows
• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments

Most importantly:

• Strong engineering fundamentals
• High ownership mindset
• Comfort using AI tools to move fast
• Discipline to maintain structure and quality

Good-to-Have

• Experience with real-time streaming or WebSockets
• Kubernetes deployment experience
• Experience in a fast-paced startup or consulting environment
• Familiarity with agent frameworks or voice/multimodal systems

Screening Requirement

Please include:

• A portfolio of systems you’ve built (especially AI-enabled systems), and
• A short note explaining how you use AI tools in your development workflow.

We are specifically looking for engineers who lean into AI agents and coding assistants, but still understand architecture, performance, and clean code.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Post-secondary degree in computer science, software engineering or related discipline, or equivalent working experience.
• Development of distributed applications with Microsoft technologies: C# .NET/Core, SQL Server, Entity Framework.
• Deep expertise with microservices architectures and design patterns.
• Cloud Native AWS experience with services such as Lambda, SQS, RDS/Aurora, S3, Lex, and Polly.
• Mastery of both Windows and Linux environments and their use in the development and management of complex distributed systems architectures.
• Git source code repository and continuous integration tools.

About the Role-

Thinking big and executing beyond what is expected. The challenges cut across algorithmic problem solving, systems engineering, machine learning and infrastructure at a massive scale.

Reason to Join-

An opportunity for innovators, problem solvers & learners.  Working will be Innovative, empowering, rewarding & fun. Amazing Office, competitive pay along with excellent benefits package.

Requiremets and Responsibilities- (please read carefully before applying)

• The overall experience of 3-6 years in Java/Python Framework and Machine Learning.
• Develop Web Services, REST, XSD, XML technologies, Java, Python, AWS, API.
• Experience on Elastic Search or SOLR or Lucene -Search Engine, Text Mining, Indexing.
• Experience in highly scalable tools like Kafka, Spark, Aerospike, etc.
• Hands on experience in Design, Architecture, Implementation, Performance & Scalability, and Distributed Systems.
• Design, implement, and deploy highly scalable and reliable systems.
• Troubleshoot Solr indexing process and querying engine.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science from Tier 1 Institutions

Skills Required:

- Good experience with programming language Python
- Strong experience in Docker.
- Good knowledge with any of the Cloud Platform like Azure.
- Must be comfortable working in a Linux environment.
- Must have exposure into IOT domain and its protocols ((Zigbee & BLE ,LoRa,Modbus)
- Must be a good team player.
- Strong Communication Skills

Requirement:-
1. Strong PHP Core programming expertise
2. MySQL DB Model Design and Programming expertise
3. Strong skills in either Joomla or WordPress - at least one is needed.
4. Working know how of HTML 5/ CSS 3
5. Knowledge of SVN or any other version control tools
6. Must have solid REST/API implementation and integration concepts.

Preferred addons :-
1. Good to have Frontend Skills in - Javascript/JQuery/Bootstrap/Angular
2. Experience in common third-party social APIs (google, Facebook, eBay etc)
3. Experience with Payment Gateway integration with APIs like (paypal, payza, authorise.net, Firstdata, Ipayout, Stripe etc)
4. Any experience in Ionic / PhoneGap is a plus

Benefits
1. 6 months of probation period.
2. Working Days: Monday-Friday (As per International Standards).
3. Working Timings: 9 hours per day including break of 1 hour
4. Opportunities to learn and grow.

• Owns team's output and E2E definition and execution of SDLC. Drives sprint planning, estimates & prioritizes tasks, Keeps key stakeholders updated on progress, milestones, and any potential slippages.
• Identifies pitfalls across codebases proactively. Writes model code that is looked up to. Understands internals of programming languages & runtimes. Creates common reusable components/libraries- Uses advanced data structures.
• Designs API contracts between large systems with end-to-end service design and active leadership towards long-term sustainability including versioning, complex migration plans, impact analysis across products.
• Owns NFRs and pushes the envelope on performance, scalability, and high availability with cognizance towards the cost of infra. Drives tech stack selection independently, mentors junior engineers. Evangelises of generic platform building across the organization.
• Troubleshoots unseen issues across codebases. Solves large end-to-end cross-cutting problems with elegant solutions with an eye on long-term sustainability.
• Partners with and influences product managers on “how”. Leads the pack on hiring and evangelizes steeper hiring standards towards building an A+ team. Represents company on external platforms/conferences.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar discipline
• 7+ years relevant work experience in software engineering while leading teams.
• Proficiency in more than one modern programming language such as Python (preferred) associated tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code
• Experience in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered
• Should be strong with System Design and Database designing
• Deep understanding of design patterns, optimizations, deployments with Strong object-oriented design skills
• Experience mentoring other software engineers.
• Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language

• Expert in Python. Comfortable with Web frameworks, such as Flask or Django
• Familiarity with Object Relational Mapping Libraries and ability to Integrate with Multiple Data Sources into One System
• Understanding of Limitations of Python and Multi Process Architecture. Understanding of Design Principles of Scalable Application
• Has familiarity with data frameworks in Python - Pandas or
• Good object-oriented design skills and knowledge of design
• Knowledge of key-value stores, caching, search, messaging queues
• Minimum 5 years of experience in the above

Locus is a global decision- making platform in the supply chain that uses deep learning and proprietary algorithms to provide route optimization, real-time tracking, insights and analytics, beat optimization, efficient warehouse management, vehicle allocation and utilization, intuitive 3D packing and measurement of packages. Locus automates human decisions required to transport a package or a person, between any two points on earth, delivering gains along efficiency, consistency, and transparency in operations.

Locus, which has achieved a peak of 1 million orders processed in a day (200,000 orders an hour) and is trained & tested on over 100 million+ order deliveries, works in 75 cities across the globe. Locus works with several large-scale market leaders like Urban Ladder, Tata Group of Companies, Droplet, Licious, Rollick, Lenskart, other global FMCG, pharma, e-commerce, 3PL and logistics conglomerates.

Locus is backed by some of the biggest names in the market and recently raised $22 MN in Series B funding and also $4 Mn in a pre-Series B round. Earlier, In 2016, Locus raised $2.75 Mn (INR 18.3 Cr) in a Series A funding.

Locus was started by Nishith Rastogi and Geet Garg, two ex-Amazon engineers on a mission to democratize logistics intelligence for businesses across industries. Nishith was profiled by Forbes Asia in their ’30 Under 30’ 2018 list. Geet, on the other hand, holds a dual degree (BTech and MTech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. Our team constitutes of engineers from Indian Institute of Technology and Birla Institute of Technology & Science- Pilani, and Data Scientists with PhDs from Carnegie Mellon University and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Our multifaced product and business team is led by senior members from Barclays, Google & Goldman Sachs with immense operational execution experience.

Job Description

• Design & implement backend APIs at Locus.sh
• Mentor junior developers technically.
• Actively work to reduce tech debt in the Locus backend
• Work towards more stability & scalability of the backend
• Tech stack - Java, AWS, Aurora etc.

Eligibility

• 4-8 years of product company experience
• OOP implementation experience. Programming language does not matter, We use Java internally but have hired folks from non Java background.
• Hands on experience in SQL, Dynamo DB, Postgres etc preferred.
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Advanced understanding of AWS stack
• Prior knowledge of solving problems at scale.

Perks:

• Healthy catered meals at office
• You decide your own Work From Home (WFH) and Out Of Office (OOO)
• Pet-friendly - bring your pets to the office any day. Locus family already has a Rottweiler and a Beagle