Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer

Our Story

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers groceries in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country We’re scaling up throughout in Mumbai Bangalore, Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai quickly and, in the next six months, few more cities.

We’re incredibly well-funded and just closed a Series F fundraise of 660M USD. 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.

Engineering @ Zepto

Building for scale, rapid iterative development, and customer-centric product thinking at each step define every day for a Zepto engineer. If building technology that impacts millions, brainstorming with some of the best minds in the country, executing at lightning speed, product-driven thinking, and owning your work from start to finish excites you, then Zepto is the right place for you.

Primary Responsibilities

End-to-end ownership of multiple microservice's design, architecture, and strategic direction.

• Drive product innovation, technology roadmap and provide long-term vision to teams.
• Author system-level high level design documents for cross-functional microservices.
• Improve and/or re-architect and/or write new algorithms for functional performance.
• Work on simulations for breakthrough functional and technical performance.
• Innovate and dig out patentable solutions to product/technical requirements.
• Incorporate proper certification/compliance requirements into the product designs.
• Be a focal point of technology for product, engineering and teams that are critical to product.
• Participate in strategic planning and expansion of the support and observability strategy.

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What Are We Looking For?

• A degree in B.E/B.Tech or a related field, accompanied by a minimum of 8 years of experience in a leadership role within the technology sector.
• Profound expertise in technology, focusing on the development of highly scalable and available architectures.
• A solid grasp of distributed systems and familiarity with key architectural patterns.
• Proficiency in optimizing performance and scalability.
• Proficient in the design of comprehensive REST APIs.
• Proven experience in integrating new open-source technologies into product development and staying up-to-date with industry advancements.

Why Join Us?

• Zepto is on a blitzscaling path unlike any other start-up today.
• The opportunity to join India’s only Unicorn in 2023 is rare. 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.