Lead Software Engineer - Backend

Rapido; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Rapido, India’s largest bike-taxi platform, seeks a Lead Product Engineer to own the future of products across a diverse tech stack. You will design, implement, and deliver features that balance business priorities with technical vision, collaborating with developers to ship high-quality code and learn continuously.

You will lead architecture discussions, drive scaling initiatives, and ensure observability and reliability while growing with a dynamic team delivering value to millions of users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/experience.
• Minimum 8 years of software development experience in Go or NodeJs.
• Proven leadership in engineering, driving operational excellence and best practices.
• Experience with microservices and NoSQL databases (Mongo, ES, Cassandra).
• Exposure to event-driven architecture with messaging systems (Kafka, Pub Sub, SQS, RabbitMQ).

Responsibilities

• Lead tech analysis and design of features in collaboration with the team.
• Plan and deliver features with scalable, observable, reliable architectures.
• Oversee sprint planning, code reviews and retrospectives.
• Design distributed systems emphasizing scalability and resilience.
• Collaborate across Product, Design, QA, DevOps and other teams.

Education

B.Tech./B.E. in Computer Science

Tools

Go

NodeJs

Java

Mongo

Elasticsearch

Cassandra

Kafka

Redis

Postgres

MySQL

Kubernetes

Flink

Spark

Airflow

Job description

We are India’s largest bike-taxi platform, steadily venturing into Auto, Cabs, Delivery, Rental, and more. Currently, present in ~100 cities, we are growing close to ~50% year-on-year with steady funding. We have changed the concept of intra-city travel and made last-mile connectivity affordable to all. Along with being the #1 choice of 40 million people, we have also built a solid captain base of over 5 million registered captains, who have bettered their lives with Rapido. As an employer, we provide a lot of ownership to our team members providing multiple avenues for them to grow within the company. You will only grow with us with the right balance of ambition, fun, and transparent work culture!

Rapido Cabs made its debut on May 2023, marking the commencement of its services in eight cities. Notably, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Delhi stand out as the primary cities for this initial launch. However, the ambitious plan includes an extensive expansion to encompass over 50 cities in the coming 12 months.

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Job Summary:

As a Lead Product Engineer, you are expected to design, implement, deliver, monitor, operate, and improve features on a system that spans a diverse tech landscape, striking a balance between business priorities and the technical vision of the organization. The coolest part of this role is the ability to own the future of products, ensure quality and longevity, and see the results of your efforts in people's everyday lives. You will be part of a growing team, that delivers value to our customers through creative improvements to our product. You will collaborate with other developers, write code you are proud of, and deliver amazing results that our users love while constantly learning throughout the process.

Job Responsibilities:

• Ensure efficient planning and prioritization by understanding and ideating the business requirements.
• Leading the tech analysis of the features, and coming up with the design along with the team in a collaborative way.
• Ensure efficient execution and delivery of the features - devising the right rollout strategy, observability, reliability under scale, and impact tracking.
• Conduct sprint planning, code reviews and retrospect with the team on the progress and remove blockers.
• Design distributed systems with an eye on scalability and resilience.
• Initiate cross-functional collaborations with teams like Product, Design, QA, DevOps and gather feedback and requirements.
• Be part of a team that values continuous learning and pushes the boundaries to improve individually and collectively.
• Work across a diverse tech landscape, thus expanding the breadth of knowledge and having an opportunity to go in-depth in an area of your choice - Go | Java | NodeJs | Mongo | Elasticsearch | Cassandra | Kafka | Redis | Postgres | MySQL | Kubernetes | Flink | Spark | Airflow
• Exhibit utmost rigor when it comes to production systems and their performance and leave no stone unturned when it comes to carrying out a post-mortem for an issue in production.
• Research and identify better ways to solve problems including the identification and use of industry trends, improving application architecture, and improving ways of working.

Job Requirements:

• B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/experience.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in software development using one or more of Go / NodeJs.
• Proven leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices.
• Experience working with an Agile cross-functional team and collaborating to achieve common goals.
• Must have experience of working with microservices.
• Must have experience in working with NoSQL databases (Mongo | ES | Cassandra). Good to have exposure to SQL databases (Postgres | MySQL)
• Must have experience working on event-driven architecture with exposure to one of the messaging systems (Kafka | Google Pub Sub | AWS SQS | RabbitMQ)
• Strong understanding of distributed system concepts and event-driven architecture.
• Passion for learning new things and solving challenging problems.
• Willingness to give and receive feedback, learn, and improve

What’s there for you?

Our team handles everything – infra, tooling, and self-manages a bunch of databases, such as:

• 150+ microservices with event-driven architecture across different tech stacks.
• More than 100,000 Request per second of internet traffic on our edge gateways.
• ~20,000 events processed per second.
• 100s of TBs of data on self-managed databases.
• Real-time continuous deployments at scale.100s of deployments every week to production.

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