Software Engineer - Backend at Niyotail · Gurugram · 1 - 4 years · ₹6L - ₹15L / yr · Bootstrapped · Posted 24 Feb 2022

What will we be building together?
1K Kirana Bazaar (1K) is building Bharat's first hyperlocal offline-online distribution platform. Our aim is to provide the benefits of technology and scale to the underserved first time internet users of Bharat. We use the efficiencies of the existing kirana store network and empower them with a full technology stack to fulfill all needs of our consumers.
Over the next 2 years our goal is to transform the lives of millions of new age consumers of Bharat and at the same time make the lives of thousands of retailers more fulfilling! With our end to end integrated supply chain and technology stack, we are already disrupting the traditional supply chain and bringing in innovation and gamification to the traditional shopping and consumption process. The growth process will demand exploration of technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, IPFS, Distributed Computing, and IOT to name a few to fuel the idealistic model design for the making of an evolved #bharat. We visualise seamless access to every consumer or a mom & pop store in the deepest rooted corners of India.
What will you be driving with the team?
To build full-stack solutions for retail & supply chain from managing purchases to selling products to end consumers. You will work on solving some of the complex problems of the retail industry.
Your core responsibilities:
- Solve complex problems and follow good coding practices and complying with existing quality standards.
- Evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.
- Setup high-quality standards in production running code by performing diligent code reviews and rigorous unit test coverage.
- Brainstorm (sometimes, even prototype) features with the rest of the team based on your knowledge of the codebase.
- And of course, there's always bugs to fix, based on your personal experience or feedback from the team and the 1K community.
What will help you thrive in this role?
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
- 6 month+ experience in software development.
- Knowledge of programming languages.
- Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, data structures, and software design.
- Experience with AWS infrastructure and distributed systems is a plus.
- Highly developed attention to detail.
- Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.
Whom you will be sharing your workday with?
We are a language-agnostic engineering team of independent thinkers who understand the priorities of a rapidly growing startup and excel at choosing high impact projects. Our core beliefs are:
- We are at the forefront of disrupting the traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
- We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of the open-source community.
- We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
- We use a data-driven approach to build new products and features.
- Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
- We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.
And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office every day.
Work Perks
- Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere.
- A great salary, commensurate with experience.
- Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
- A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
- Weekly parties (Unofficial).
- Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
- Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.

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