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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Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or a related field is preferred.
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• Sound knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Patterns and Concepts.
• Knowledge & hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, Java, and Spring Framework is a must.
• Additional knowledge of JDBC, Apache TomCat Server & relevant open-source technologies is required.
• Must have experience with Bootstrap CSS, jQuery, etc.
• Basic Understanding of the concepts of MVC (Model-View-Controller) Pattern, JDBC (Java Database
Connectivity), and RESTful web services.
• Experience in handling external and embedded databases.
Roles & Responsibilities
• Maintaining the Database, creating efficient queries, and understanding and improving the current database structure.
• Develop new modules, patches & Updates/upgrades for an existing application (developed in house by the client)
• Analyze user requirements to define business objectives.
• Maintain Java-based applications that can be high-volume and low-latency.
• Identify and resolve any technical issues arising.
• Write well-designed, testable code.
• Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging.
• Support continuous improvement, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review.
Role – Senior Developer (Back End)
Location - Bangalore
Experience 5+ Years
Responsibilities
- Responsible for design & developing products involving Java, JEE, Springboot.
- Object-oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
- Deep insight of Java and JEE internals such as memory management, transaction management, etc.
- Design and develop features and modules for mission-critical applications.
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle.
- Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications.
- Prepare and produce releases of software components.
- Mentoring and guiding the team members.
- An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment and bring in optimal flow for rapidly changing design/ technology.
- Implementation of API.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in strong core java & J2EE skill
- 5+ years of experience in Spring Boot.
- 5+ years of experience in Spring and REST/SOAP services
- Strong knowledge in Java web application design and development
- Strong knowledge of Spring frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring integration, Spring Security, etc.), JPA, RESTful APIs
- Experience with design and development of highly available, distributed and scalable transactional enterprise systems
- Results oriented and focused on meeting deliverable timelines.
- A team player with excellent communication skills.
Hands-on 5 to 7 years of current development experience
supporting/troubleshooting a high-volume online platform
Database – expert MS SQL Server skills, including views and stored procedures, and provide ongoing support, including analyzing logs, writing complex SQL scripts
High-quality software development skills to troubleshoot principally using Microsoft programming tools including using C#, ASP.NET, and client-side technology such as JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, Web Forms, and CSS
Exposure to developing applications using REST API and Angular would be beneficial (or knowledge of troubleshooting API based application)
Experience using dev toolkits eg. GitHub, SQL Server Management Studio, Visual Studio, LINQPad, Postman, reviewing/analyzing application logs
Understanding of development and release processes, including branching.
Responsibilities:
Design, develop and maintain software applications using Java programming language
Write well-designed, testable, efficient code
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify, prioritize and execute tasks in a timely manner
Troubleshoot and debug software issues
Ensure software quality by performing thorough testing and code reviews
Keep up-to-date with new technologies and programming languages
Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including planning, designing, coding, testing, and deploying software
Document software development processes, procedures and code changes
Provide technical guidance to team members
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
Minimum of 3 years of experience in Java development
Strong knowledge of Java programming language and related frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, etc.)
Proficient in using development tools (Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, etc.)
Experience with relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, etc.)
Familiarity with software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, etc.)
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Strong communication and teamwork skills
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
Experience with microservices architecture
Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.)
Knowledge of cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.)
Experience with DevOps practices and tools (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
Role: Java Developer
Experience: 4 - 7 years
Location: Anna salai, Chennai
Interview Mode: Face to Face
Looking for candidates who can join within 30 days
Key responsibilities:
- Must worked on Spring Boot as an individual contributor.
- Develop a distributed and scalable solution for high-performance financial solutions
- Design, code, test, debug, and document programs as well as support activities for the corporate systems architecture
- Develop tools for performance tracking, monitoring, and reporting on the suite of server-side applications
- Perform and manage stages of the SLDC and participate in the systems review with Project Lead/Manager
- Should have knowledge on Cloud applications preferably on AWS
- Devops with Jenkins, Shellscripting
- Must have experience / knowledge in Cluster Management Frameworks , Spark, Kafka,
- Elastic Search, Docker and database, build-and-test (preferred).
- Demonstrate skills in problem-solving and decision-making
- Experience with Test Driven Development using TestNG/Junit testing framework
Required Skills:
- Minimum of 3+ years of experience with server-side core java development
- Hand-on experience in Micro Services with Spring Boot and use of tools like Sonar Qube, Jenkins, AWS.
- Test methodologies and testing tools e.g. JUnit.
- Shell scripting to handle basic scripting
- Able to work independently and produce high-quality solutions.
- Excellent team player and strong interpersonal skills.
- Participating in code reviews
- Knowledge in cloud and DevOps will be plus
- should have at least 5 years of hands-on experience in backend software development using Java.
- should have proven expertise in Spring Boot REST/Microservices.
- should have used design patterns like MVP, MVC or MVVM and should know when to use which.
- should have working experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
- should have multiple years of experience with cloud application design and in one or more reputable cloud platform providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure … )
- should have professional experience working in an agile development environment.
- should have strong communication skills and like making decisions.
- should follow good software engineering principles such as TDD, writing modular, maintainable and clean code
Strong experience in Core java technologies
Good experience in Restful Webservices
Good Experience in Database concepts.
Good Communication Skills & client/customer interaction experience.
- Experience in at least one of the frameworks YII / Codeigniter
- Experience in Laravel(Mandatory)
- Good experience in JS, JQuery, AJAX, Angular JS
- Good experience in Html, CSS, Responsive Design.
- Ability to write and consume web services and REST services.
- Knowledge on Developing APIs for Mobile Applications
- Should have excellent communication skill and technical skill
- Extensive OOD (Object-oriented design) / OOP (Object-oriented programming) experience.
- Good knowledge of relational databases (MySQL), version control tools and of developing web services
- Should have good understanding skill and ability to work independently or within a team and lead a team.
- Passion for best design and coding practices and a desire to develop new bold ideas.
- Knowledge of and experience applying design patterns andimplementing industry best practices required.
Good to Have Skills:
- Knowledge on Server Maintenance
- Knowledge on Amazon AWS
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If you fit the above criteria, send your latest resume along with following information duly filled to us immed at appleinformatics(at)yahoo.com
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Can join earliest by:
➢ Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
➢ Strong proficiency with JavaScript (ECMAScript 5, 6)
➢ Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it (SailsJS, Express)
➢ Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
➢ Familiarity with front-end technologies
➢ User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
➢ Interaction with multiple data sources
➢ Good understanding of SQL syntax
➢ Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
➢ Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform.
➢ Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
➢ Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git .
➢ Knowledge in the field of IOT is good to have.









