Senior Backend Developer

Your Impact 

We’re looking for passionate and self-driven Backend Software Engineers who can combine technical depth with strategic product thinking. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with modern backend stacks, brings strong critical thinking to the table, and can balance short-term delivery with long-term technical vision. 

Build scalable and reliable backend services and APIs that power the product.

What skills do you need? 

• Extensive (Must have) hands-on experience in JavaScript, TypeScript, backend development using Node.js and Express.js, and database management with MySQL.
• Strong command of JavaScript and understanding of its quirks and best practices
•  Exposure to system design and interest in building scalable, high-availability systems.
• Experience from a high-growth product-based startup is a must-have.
• Ability to think strategically when designing systems—not just how to build, but why
• Prior work on B2C applications with a focus on performance and user experience
• Knowledge of Sequelize, MongoDB, and AWS would be an advantage. 
• Experience in optimizing backend systems for speed and scalability.
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Why choose a career at RockED? 

• Remote-first culture with initial in-office training at our Bangalore HQ to help you settle in and connect with the team.
• Company-sponsored travel and stay during quarterly in-person meetups.
• Comprehensive health insurance – ₹10 lakh coverage for you and your family, fully paid by RockED.
• Direct access to leadership with experience at top global companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Walmart, and more.
• Be part of a diverse and global team working across the US, India, and Germany.
• Unlimited leave policy – built on trust and so far used responsibly by our team.

How to Apply?

Reach out to Kashish Trehan from RockED Team

Lead Software Engineer (Bangalore, Remote option available) 6+ years of experience 

Zepto (www.zeptonow.com)

Why should you look at this role?

Salary 50-65 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 an Individual Contributor role.

Interview Process:

1. Discussion on past experience and problem discussion based on projects done
2. Low level design
3. High level design

(One of the rounds will test scenario management via case study since it’s a managerial role) 

What You will do Everyday?

• Work very closely with the Tech Leadership and lead end-to-end development.
• Write maintainable/scalable/efficient code.
• Design and architect technical solutions for the business problems of a very large e-commerce portal.
• Work in cross-functional team, collaborating with peers during entire SDLC.
• Follow coding standards, unit-testing, code reviews etc.
• Follow release cycles and commitment to deadlines.

Your Superpowers

• 6+ years of experience in building large scale applications or products.
• A “Bring It On” attitude; bias for action; self-driven, end-to-end ownership; entrepreneurial approach; focus on operational excellence; ability to work with ambiguity.
• Strong in problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.
• Very good understanding of one or more of RDBMS/NoSQL/Messaging/ Caching technologies.
• Excellent understanding of and coding skills in following technologies: Java
• B Tech/BE in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed institution.

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Job Responsibilities:

* Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code

* Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications

* Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

* Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

* Prepare the technical design of complex technology components

Mandatory Skills:

* Proficient in Java (JDK 1.7) or above JDK 8 preferable, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems with a knack for writing clean, readable Java code, writing reusable Java libraries along with knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

* Solid understanding of object-oriented programming along with various design and architectural patterns

* Hands on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit

* Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Microservices, RESTful

As a Software Development Engineer 2 at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

Top Skills:

• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java/C#/Python/C++/Go/Ruby on Rails/node/php.
• You recognise and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.

Responsibilities:

• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognise and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
• You continually align your work with Amazon's business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
• You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
• You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
• You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

Requirements:

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field with 3+ years of experience in Design and Development
• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
• Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby, php.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.

Requirements

• High self motivation to lead & build projects from beginning to end;
• You've shipped multiple products and are willing/able to demonstrate how you solved specific problems to solve users needs;
• Excellent communication in presenting your code and communicating what problems they are solving while giving/receiving feedback;
• Ability to quickly grasp goals and requirements from light specifications;
• Must be able to effectively & efficiently work with stakeholders spreads across many timezones;
• 5+ years of Android experience working in a modern commercial web development environment and shipping solid product;
• Experience in Springboot, Microservices, JPA, oracle database.
• Must have experience in authentication mechanism like LDAP, SSO, any authentication server, role management

Perks

• Ground floor opportunity with the team; shape the strategic direction of the company.
• Work with sharp, motivated and passionate co-workers spread across many regions.
• Rare opportunity to make real positive impact on the world!

• 4+ years Rails experience in a production environment working complex Ruby on Rails applications and Ruby gems
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools
• Knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code
• Knowledge on HTTP and RESTFUL API development experience
• Experience in Angular is a plus
• Proactiveness, good communication and fast learning.

We are urgently looking Azure Data Factory Engineers with 3 to 7 years of overall experience, having good experience on Azure Data Factory and SSIS.

Requirements:

• Qualification: Engineering Graduate.
• Years of Experience: 2+ yrs of relevant experience on Azure Data Factory & SSIS.
• Strong understanding of ETL/ELT concepts.
• Hands on experience on Azure Data Factory.
• Exposure of Cloud technologies, standards, and platforms.
• Sound knowledge of ADF pipeline, configuration, parameters, variables, Integration services runtime (part of Data Factory).
• Strong Experience on SSIS.
• Sound knowledge of implementing slowly changing dimensions and transactional, fact less, snapshot fact tables.
• Azure Data Warehouse.
• Knowledge on Azure components especially file storage and Azure Sql, Blob storage and Data Lake Gen2 storage (just used as a file system on the blob).
• Azure Data Migration tool.
• Well versed with RDBMS systems like Sql server, DDL, DML scripts.
• Sound knowledge of T-SQL and stored procedures.
• Strong Query writing skills, Scheduling tools.
• Ensure quality deliverable and ability to extend work hours if required.
• Azure Certification: Preferred.
• Ability to understand Customer requirements and convert the requirements into technical specifications.
• Ability to understand the overall solution and design components to fit the overall solution.
• Ability to take technical decisions and support the decisions with justifications.
• Ability to work in Agile manner.
• Ability to work independently without much guidance.
• Self-Motivated, team player, results oriented, strong Time Management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Willing to travel to outside India (Short term as well as long term)