Principal Engineer

1 week ago

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Licious Full time ₹ 20,00,000 - ₹ 25,00,000 per year

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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