Principal Engineer
1 week ago
About us
With our de-licious fresh meat and seafood, we are
Licious
—India's leading D2C food-tech brand. Founded in 2015 by
Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta
, we are headquartered in Bengaluru, delivering high-quality, fresh meat and seafood to over 32 lakh customers across 20 cities.
Ready to add your unique flavor to Licious? Read on
Role Overview
We're looking for a
Principal Backend Engineer
to lead the design and development of key systems that power both the
consumer experience
(personalization, search, recommendations) and the
supply chain
(inventory, routing, fulfillment, lastmile). This is a highly strategic role for someone who can think end-to-end, connect business needs to technical decisions, and drive scalable architecture in a fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities
Consumer Experience & Personalization
- Design scalable, low-latency systems that power homepage, product carousels, and dynamic promotions.
- Build real-time
personalization and recommendation platforms
using customer interactions, session data, and ML signals. - Collaborate with data science to serve
contextual recommendations, ranking algorithms, and customer segmentation
. - Architect APIs and services that support
multi-tenant, multi-device user experiences
with high reliability. - Capture behavioral signals and build infrastructure for
event-based personalization
and nudges (e.g., abandoned cart, repeat prompts).
Supply Chain, Fulfillment & Inventory
- Lead the engineering for platforms managing
cluster-based inventory, demand-supply sync, pricing rules
, and
order orchestration
. - Drive automation and intelligence in
procurement planning, production ops, batch tracking, and cold-chain management
. - Optimize for
scalability, uptime, and fault-tolerance
across multiple fulfillment nodes and delivery partners. - Build platforms that support real-time availability, dynamic SLA promises, and last-mile routing decisions.
- Integrate with logistics, ERP, and analytics systems to create a
seamless supply-demand loop
.
Tech Stack
- Languages:
Java (Spring Boot)-
Mandatory
, Python/Golang-
Good to Have - Eventing & Streaming:
Kafka or RabbitMQ - Datastores:
MySQL, Redis, MongoDB - Infra & Observability:
Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch - ML/Recommendations:
AWS Personalize, in-house ML APIs, feature stores-
Good to Have
What We're Looking For
- 7 to 10 years of backend engineering experience with strong fundamentals in
distributed systems and large-scale architecture
. - Solid understanding of
streaming systems
, caching, queuing, and
performance tuning
for low-latency. - Ability to partner with
data science, product, business, and design
to deliver impact-driven platforms. - Experience working in
high-growth, multi-disciplinary environments
with product-market complexity. - Passion for
clean code, mentoring engineers
, and raising the bar across teams. - Deep experience building
consumer platforms
(e.g., search, personalization, real-time APIs) and
supply systems
(e.g., inventory, logistics, pricing) is good to have.
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