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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Greetings!
Wissen Technology is hiring for Java developers/Lead.
Required Skillset
- 6+ years of industrial experience
- Java and related frameworks.
- Experience in Core Java 1.8 and above, Data Structures, OOPS, Multithreading, Microservices, Spring and Swift Payments
- Exposure on Fintech domain is mandatory
- Should have the ability to analyse, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications.
- Good development experience with RDBMS
- Good knowledge of multi-threading and high volume server side development
- Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java
- Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.
Company Profile:
Company Name : Wissen Technology
Group of companies in India : Wissen Technology & Wissen Infotech
Work Location - Bangalore
Website : www.wissen.com
Wissen Thought leadership : https://www.wissen.com/articles/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wissen-technology
Looking for candidates only with tier 1 colleges OR have experience in a product-based company.
Desired Skills :
● Experience with data modeling and SQL/NoSQL databases
● Experience with distributed systems and microservices
● Good experience in working with any of Java/SpringBoot, GoLang or NodeJS
● Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
● Passionate about the experience of software engineering as much as the output
● A strong sense of ownership
● Ability to communicate your ideas and approach to solving problems with clarity
Core Experience:
•Experience in Core Java, J2EE, Spring/Spring Boot, Hibernate, Spring REST, Linux, JUnit, Maven, Design Patterns.
• Sound knowledge of RDBMS like MySQL/Postgres, including schema design.
• Exposure to Linux environment.
• Exposure to Docker and Kubernetes.
• Basic Knowledge of Cloud Services of AWS, Azure, GCP cloud provider.
• Proficient in general programming, logic, problem solving, data structures & algorithms
• Good analytical, grasping and problem-solving skills.
Secondary Skills:
• Agile / Scrum Development Experience preferred.
• Comfortable working with a microservices architecture and familiarly with NoSql solutions.
• Experience in Test Driven Development.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Hands-on skills in configuration of popular build tools, like Maven and Gradle
• Good knowledge of testing frameworks such as JUnit.
• Good knowledge of coding standards, source code organization and packaging/deploying.
• Good knowledge of current and emerging technologies and trends.
Job Responsibilities:
• Design, Development and Delivery of Java based enterprise-grade applications.
• Ensure best practices, quality and consistency within various design and development phases.
• Develop, test, implement and maintain application software working with established processes.
Work with QA and help them for test automation
• Work with Technical Writer and help them documenting the features you have developing.
Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s / master’s degree in computer science or information technology or related field
Technical Skills :
Java, Spring Boot, MySql, CI/CD Automation.
UI Scripting,NPL/ML
Job Location: Pune
Experience: 4- 5 years
Functional Area - IT Software - Application Programming , Maintenance
Role Category : Programming & Design
Requirement / Job Description:
Core Skills:
Strong experience of Core Java (1.7 or higher), OOPS concepts and Spring framework (Core, AOP, Batch, JMS)
Demonstrated design using Web Services (SOAP and REST)
Demonstrated Microservices APIs design experience using Spring, Springboot
Demonstrable experience in Databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle PL/SQL development etc
Strong coding skills, good analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent understanding of Authentication, Identity Management, REST APIs, security and best practices
Good understanding of web servers like Tomcat Apache, nginx or Vertex/ Grizzly, JBoss etc
Experience in OAuth principles
Strong understanding of various Design patterns
Other Skills:
Familiarity with Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA)
Understanding of API Gateways like Zuul, Eureka Server etc..
Familiarity with Apache Kafka, MQTT etc.
Responsibilities:
Design, develop, test and debug software modules for an enterprise security product
Find areas of optimization and produce high quality code
Collaborate with product managers and other members of the project team in requirements specification and detailed engineering analysis.
Collaborate with various stake holders and help bring proactive closure on the issues
Evaluate various technology trends and bring in the best practices
Innovate and come out of the box solutions
Adapt, thrive and deliver in a highly evolving and demanding product development team
Come up with ways to provide an improved customer experience
JAVA SPRING BOOT
Mandate Skills: Java+Springboot (Mandatory), Angular is add on
This is Java lead developer role based in Pune India. You should be ready to take challenges and passionate about CI/CD practices. You should be a good team player with excellent sense of ownership & responsibility. Technical skills :
- You have experience building applications on Spring Framework, Springboot & RESTFul web services is must.
- Hands on experience in Front-End technologies such as Angular JS is preferable.
- You have experience working on Unix / Linux.
- You have DB query experience on Oracle.
- Effective & clear communication Understands the value of diversity in the workplace and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive culture in all aspects of working life so that people from all backgrounds receive equal treatment, realize their full potential and can bring their full, authentic selves to work.
XpressBees– a logistics company started in 2015 – is amongst the fastest growing companies of its
sector. While we started off rather humbly in the space of ecommerce B2C logistics, the last 5 years
have seen us steadily progress towards expanding our presence. Our vision to evolve into a strong full-
service logistics organization reflects itself in our new lines of business like 3PL, B2B Xpress and cross
border operations.
Our strong domain expertise and constant focus on meaningful innovation have helped us rapidly evolve
as the most trusted logistics partner of India. We have progressively carved our way towards best-in-
class technology platforms, an extensive network reach, and a seamless last mile management system.
While on this aggressive growth path, we seek to become the one-stop-shop for end-to-end logistics
solutions. Our big focus areas for the very near future include strengthening our presence as service
providers of choice and leveraging the power of technology to improve efficiencies for our clients.
Job Description
XB is looking for driven & talented engineers to build highly scalable, reliable and performant cloud-
based platforms to drive the logistics business. You will have opportunities to make a big impact at XB
on the software solutions being built for Logistics businesses. We build a variety of technology products
that span multiple businesses.
The challenges that SDEs at XB solve are big (handle 50 Lakh shipments per day!) and influence the E-
Commerce business in India in coming years. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about
creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the fast pace
of the company. The challenges span areas like highly scalable and reliable orchestration
platforms, Client Integration API frameworks, Billing Solutions, Workforce Engagement. Further you may
solve complex optimization problems like Vehicle routing, Allocation, Network Optimization etc.
Roles & Responsibilities
You will be responsible for working with cross functional teams to deep dive into the
business and technology problems related to our portfolio of products, understanding the
gaps that exist in our current tools, and work within our team and with partner teams to
design best in class solutions.
You will have the opportunity to influence, invent, and design system architecture
across multiple product and technology spaces.
You will lead and mentor other talented engineers. You will be responsible for building
the best customer experience, keeping latency, security, and usability in mind.
You will interact with Product Managers and Designers and convert their vision into
a technical solution.
You will own portions of software deliverables including major critical path code from
your designs while finding opportunities to grow and mentor the team around you.
You will collaborate with other engineering leads and guide the team on software
development best practices and set examples by using them in solutions that you build.
You will own the end-to-end design of major deliverables, working closely with a team
of SDEs and Front-End Engineers to execute them. This is a high visibility and fast-paced
environment where you will make a direct impact on the customer experience and the
bottom line of the company.
You should have a commanding understanding of object-oriented design, data
structures and algorithms which you use to mentor a team of engineers. You should have
experience with agile methodologies, experience building scalable services and robust user
interfaces. We make extensive use of AWS Services (API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, etc.) and
prior experience is a plus. Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (like angular,
react, backbone, and node.js) would be a plus.
Qualifications
Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for
scalability, performance, and reliability.
Development experience defining, developing and maintaining web service API's
Demonstrated ability to mentor other software developers to maintain architectural
vision and software quality.
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior
management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs,
and product strategy.
Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been
successfully delivered to customers.
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full
software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control
management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
Deep understanding of CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms and
complexity analysis.
Experience building large-scale, high-performance systems in a complex, multi-tiered,
distributed environment.
Design and architecture expertise as well as familiarity with object-oriented analysis and
design patterns (OOA/OOD).
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Should have 5+ years of work experience in design, develop, Code and Unit Test web and desktop-based applications written in .Net framework starting from 4.x and above.
• Strong analytical skills to understand a given requirement and provide work estimates.
• Strong Object-Oriented Programming knowledge.
• Strong experience with Static Code Analyzers like Fortify.
• Should have good understanding of web servers such as IIS and Front-end such as HTML’s and Razor based engines.
• Strong debugging skills using .net front end and backend.
• Strong coding experience and thorough understanding of programming languages such as C#, VB.NET, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, JQuery, JavaScript, Traditional Web Services, WCF, Web API and other Scripting languages such as pythons.
• Strong working knowledge on various design patterns such as MVC, MVVM, DDD, Repository Pattern and any custom/hybrid framework as designed by the Architects.
• Should have a strong working knowledge of Azure DevOps.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of data sharing medium using JSON, XML and other media types.
• Strong knowledge on Entity Framework (6 and above) and other ORM such as Dapper.
• Strong knowledge and programming skills in Database such SQL SERVER, Oracle, My SQL and SQL Express. Additionally, nice to know-how knowledge in MS ACCESS.
• Strong knowledge and coding experience in REST based web services and service-oriented design patterns using WCF and other API’s.
• Should have used IDE such as Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code for Front-end development.
• 1+ years of building SPA web solutions using Angular 6/7/8 , BackBone, Bootstrap
• 5+ years building HTML5 complaint pages
• 3+ years of experience using TypeScript
• 3+ years of writing automated testing using Jamine or others
Day to Day job Duties: (what this person will do on a daily/weekly basis)
• Co-ordinate/mentor other Junior developers on a day to day basis.
• Understand the use cases/User Story, code and develop on a designed platform/pattern.
• Strict adherence to coding standards.
• Participate self-code review/peer reviews and correct errors wherever applicable before checking in the final code into the Branch/code repo.
• Create code documentations wherever applicable and as set guidelines by the team.
• Create and perform Unit Tests wherever applicable as set guidelines by the team.
• Provide feedback and assist in estimation planning.
• Merge code branches as and when required.
• Create and publish release documentations and application deployments as and when requested.
• Report out statuses to the leads onshore daily during the Stand-up calls.
• Additionally, update efforts on a given work item on everyday basis.
• Provide true estimates on work assigned prior development. Also ask questions/provide comments on User Stories/work items assigned.
• Be a team player and flexible towards availability in case of any urgent issues that need immediate attention.
• Plan out vacations in advance (min. 2 weeks of adv. Notice).
Nice to have(not a must) experience, skills
• Good understanding of Service Workers.
• Prior coding experience using FORTRAN.
• Experience on 3rd party tools like Spire.Pdf, PDF.Js.
• Knowledge of Rapid application development framework like DevExpress, Code on Time, HighCharts.
• Knowledge of code clean up tools like CodeMaid.
• Knowledge of Power BI and O365 Suites of applications.
• knowledge of SQL Data tools like SSIS and SSRS.










