


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.

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ABOUT UNRAVEL CARBON
Unravel Carbon enables companies to assess their carbon footprint by tracking their digital financial footprint with its proprietary carbon emission factor model; making it easy, fast and convenient to become climate positive.
We aim to accelerate the participation of all companies, big and small, in the global fight against climate change. And we want to do it the 21st century way—autonomous, painless, and beautiful.
Unravel Carbon consists of a team of software engineers, data scientists, founders and climate experts with a passion to solve the world’s most pressing issue—climate change. Collectively, our leadership team has launched and invested in multiple companies, and are now combining their experience and knowledge here at Unravel.
We are backed by some of the world’s best funds and investors and are part of Y Combinator’s W22 batch.
Unravel Carbon was founded in 2021 with headquarters in Singapore.
Unravel Carbon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unravelcarbon/
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for early members of our India team. You will be part of the team that establishes our India product development team. We are looking for candidates who have high potential, are excited about tackling the climate change problem and are excited to grow in a high-growth environment while working with the Singapore HQ.
A junior/mid-level backend software engineer. Must be comfortable to work in a small development team and have the initiative to work alone on smaller problem sets. Must be passionate about climate-tech for a better future.
- Build backend server applications using Flask/DJango framework
- Collaborate with the data team to integrate data pipelines into our backend system.
- Collaborate with the front end team.
- Analyze processes and code to troubleshoot problems and identify areas of improvement.
- Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members.
- Take lead on projects, as needed.
ABOUT YOU
- Willingness to learn, be a self-starter, and thrive in uncertainty; you would be one of the first few employees at an early stage startup, be prepared to venture into unknown territory, collaborate and learn
- Meticulous and detail-oriented
- Required skills:
- Python Backend Development Frameworks (Flask, Django). Backend development in other languages/frameworks can be considered too
- NoSQL databases (MongoDB)
- SQL databases (MySQL, Postgres, DuckDB)
- Running/managing Linux servers on Cloud services (AWS/GCS/Azure)
- Optional skills:
- Front End Web development (ReactJS)
- Python data science tools (Pandas, Numpy, Scipy)
- Python NLP tools
YOUR WORK STYLE
- An understanding of agile product development
- Self exploration and self learning of the latest technologies and applying them to solving the technical challenges our team face
- Self-starter (proactive and independent) with an ability to prioritize different assignments and tasks to meet deadlines
- Comfortable working in a collaborative environment
- Eager to think outside of the box and creatively problem-solve
YOUR PREFERRED BACKGROUND
A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related discipline AND 1+ years working experience in the IT industry.
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
We offer an exciting challenge for a purpose-driven person who thoroughly enjoys learning and takes up responsibilities in a multi-cultural, primarily virtual, and pioneering organization.
We nurture a culture that allows you to thrive, where your skills can be honed and your ideas will be heard, and where collaboration across teams and with global partners is the default.
- 4+ years distributed service engineering experience in a software development environment
- Experience driving feature design reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers through the entire launch process
- Strong development experience in Java, C++, C#, or similar OO languages
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals
- Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures
- Good understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies
- Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure a strong plus
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system performance.
Experience with JSP & Servlet.
Experience with open source frameworks/libraries like Spring, Hibernate, Struts, JUnit etc.
Experience with MVC frameworks like Spring MVC, Struts, JSF etc.
Experience with XML and webservices (SOAP/REST).
Experience with application Servers like Web logic, WebSphere and Jboss.
Experience with JavaScript, Jquery, AJAX, CSS, HTML.
Knowledge of Messaging (JMS,MDB etc.) is a plus.
Knowledge of build tools like Maven and ANT is a plus.
Good understanding of object oriented methodologies and design principles.
Knowledge of the PTC/Servigistics/Click Commerce/Xelus “Service Depot
Management/SL/Repairs and Returns/XDR” application is a plus.
Experience working with large amounts of data.
Able to work with and participate within a small multicultural professional team.
Understanding of performance profiling / tuning.
Familiar with Agile methodologies/tools.
Experience with SQL.
Experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of enterprise Java web
applications.
General understanding of scalability and high-availability systems.
Excellent communication/documentation skills
Ability to work effectively under pressure with constantly changing priorities and deadlines
Job Description - Intelizest
Back End Engineer
- Work with other engineers to develop and test tools and applications used by team on daily basis
- Play a significant role in the ongoing evolution and refinement of current tools and applications
- Triage, troubleshoot, escalate and provide resolution to production issues.
- Reproduce, document and escalate product defects to the Engineering Team.
- Provide well-thought out and reliable direction, both in technical and non-technical terms, to help customers.
- Take ownership of customer issues, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root cause and issue resolution or escalation.
- Identify and escalate priority issues that need immediate attention.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams which requires strong presentation skills and attention to details
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent work experience. MS degree is preferred.
- 9+ years development experience in JAVA (using OO Design and Analysis, Design Patterns, etc.)
- High experience in Java 8 Required.
- 4+ years’ experience building highly scalable, distributed and reliable Restful Web Services using Spring, Jersey, etc.
- Should have knowledge on Cloud applications preferably on AWS.
- Knowledge on building Front end applications using JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3.
- Experience with relational DBs like MySQL and NoSQL Database like MongoDB, Solr/Lucene will be a plus.
- Experience with Tomcat, Jax-RS, REST, JPA, IntelliJ, Groovy, Hibernate is must.
- Experience with build technologies like Gradle, Jenkins will be a plus.
- Experience with Test Driven Development using TestNG/Junit testing frameworks.
- Experience working with version control like GIT.
- Salary commensurate with experience.
**Sr. Backend Developer Responsibilities:**
* Commitment towards delivering features on the estimated time
* Follow standard code guidelines for writing code and code review of your fellow team member's code
* Strong understanding of REST Framework
* Designing and developing REST APIs
* Ensuring scalability of code written
**Sr. Backend Developer Requirements:**
* Strong understanding of Node or any other equivalent language
* Strong understanding of database technology such as MySQL and MongoDB
* Good understanding of AWS, Redis, ElasticSeacrh, Newrelic, sentry, etc
* Have experience in monitoring and managing production level systems
* Degree in Computer Science
* Excellent verbal communication skills
* Good problem-solving skills
* Attention to detail
**About Easy Eat**
Easy Eat is reimagining the experience of dining in at a restaurant. We're starting with Malaysia and South East Asia but we believe, 5 years from now, you'll experience it in the same way across the world.
We've achieved Product Market Fit and are growing rapidly across geographies. We crossed the $10M annual run rate in just 12 months and we're really excited for the journey ahead.
**About the team**
We're a group of experienced founders who have *been there, done that* in the past. Raised funds from global VCs in industry. Have operated at scale, know how to leverage data and grow culture and teams.

