SDE-2

ShareChat; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOPs

Insurance

Hybrid work

Gym allowance

Zomato coupons

Childcare allowance

Job summary

ShareChat is seeking a strong software engineer to design and build scalable ML systems for ad recommendations affecting hundreds of millions of users. You will develop data pipelines, feature extraction, model training and deployment, and work to improve system stability and performance.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, contribute to high-quality code, and build tooling to boost productivity. The role offers hybrid work and ESOPs to share in the company's growth.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in a consumer facing large scale application.
• Strong CS fundamentals with production-quality code in a modern language.
• Experience with Go, Python, NodeJS, C/C++, or Java.
• Experience with distributed systems and data processing frameworks (Spark, Kafka).
• Experience with cloud-based tools in Linux/Unix (GCP a plus).
• Experience with NoSQL systems (HBase, Cassandra) is a plus.
• Experience in AI/ML is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop systems that serve ad recommendations to over 300 million users.
• Develop and maintain scalable ML pipelines for data processing, feature extraction, model training, and deployment.
• Develop scalable feature pipelines for ad prediction to maximize ShareChat revenue.
• Improve system design and architecture for high stability and performance.
• Build monitoring dashboards for critical services powering suggestions across the app.
• Enhance team productivity by contributing to modular code, tools, and docs.
• Collaborate with teams to build tools and platforms to improve ML engineering productivity.
• Partner with peers and grow within a supportive environment.

Skills

Go

Python

NodeJS

C/C++

Java

GCP

Distributed systems

Tools

Spark

Kafka

HBase

Cassandra

Linux

Job description

ShareChat (Mohalla Tech Pvt Ltd) is India’s largest homegrown social media company and the only local player to achieve profitability in the industry, with 200+ million Monthly Monetizable Users across all its platforms.

Founded in 2015, ShareChat has social media brands such as the ShareChat App and Moj App and micro drama app QuickTV under its portfolio. QuickTV, the newest addition to ShareChat's family of apps, crossed the 10 million downloads mark within 3 months of launch and currently has 60Mn MAUs across the network viewing the vertical episodic content.

Today, the ShareChat network maintains a whopping 1,000 Cr ARR and is India’s leading social media platform servicing users across the country in 15 regional languages. This growth has led to a 28% YoY revenue growth in the July-Sept (2025-26) quarter and increased it by more than 60% in the Oct-Dec quarter.

What You’ll Do

• Design and develop systems that serve ad recommendations to over 300 million users
• Develop and maintain scalable and efficient machine learning systems and pipelines for data processing, feature extraction, model training, and deployment
• Develop highly scalable feature pipelines aimed at ad prediction systems, which associate ads with users according to relevance, while maximizing revenue for ShareChat
• Improve system design and architecture to ensure high stability and performance
• Build monitoring dashboards to keep a check on healthy functioning of critical services and jobs responsible for powering suggestions across different real estates on the application
• Enhance team’s productivity and efficiency by contributing to modular code development, tools, libraries and easy to follow technical documents
• Collaborate with other teams to build tools and platforms to enhance ML engineering productivity
• Partner with peers and work in an environment that support your growth

Who are you?

• 3-5 years of experience in a consumer facing large scale application
• Strong CS fundamentals with a track record of writing production-quality code in a modern high-level programming language
• Excellent coding skills in at least one of Go, Python, NodeJS, C/C++, Java, Scale
• Experience in automated software testing
• Experience using cloud-based open source tools in Linux/Unix environments (GCP is a plus)
• Experience with distributed systems, scalable data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark,Kafka) and noSQL systems (e.g., HBase, Cassandra) are a plus
• Experience in AI/ML and distributed systems is a plus

Where will you be?

What's in it for you?

At ShareChat, our values—Ownership, Speed, User Empathy, Integrity, and First Principles—are at the core of our ways of working. We believe in hiring top talent and grooming future leaders by providing a flexible environment to aid growth and development.

• Wealth & Security: ESOPs and comprehensive insurance coverage.
• Lifestyle: Hybrid working culture, Gym allowance, and Zomato coupons.
• Family Support: Monthly childcare allowance for women employees.