Principal Software Engineer

Ways of working: Mandate 1 – Employees will come to the office twice or thrice a week at their base location and work remotely for the remaining days.

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Job Profile: Principal Software Engineer - StoreFront team

Location: Bangalore | Karnataka

Years of Experience: 9 - 12

About The Team & Role

Swiggy's StoreFront Engineering team helps customers enjoy personalized discovery and purchase experiences across multiple product lines (Stores, Food, Genie, and Instamart). The team is enabling this by developing thoughtfully crafted applications, smart cataloging, relevance-based search & intent-driven merchandising, checkout management solutions, and payment systems.

We are looking for engineers who have hands-on experience in building highly reliable distributed systems and have deep expertise in database design & performance tuning. Knowledge of Machine Learning and other Predictive Modeling techniques will be an added strength.

Principal Software Engineers in Swiggy not only contribute to the high-level architecture of several systems but also contribute to the overall success of the product by driving technology and best practices in engineering in their respective teams.

They establish technology vision for respective teams and demonstrate how to solve a deeply complex and hard technical challenge, and help communicate that vision upward (CTO), inward (peers and engineering team), and outward (product & business teams).

As a Senior Technical Individual Contributor, you will be responsible for

• Building and operating multi-tenant ordering and payment platforms that work across all business lines and subsidiaries. This needs to scale to millions of transactions per day with 99.95% uptime while allowing new business lines to be deployed safely and rapidly.
• Building and scaling Swiggy Money (our fast-growing wallet) across all business lines and subsidiaries.
• You will be owning Tier-1 services which serve millions of users on a daily basis with a throughput of 100k rps and higher.
  
  

What qualities are we looking for?

• Technically hands-on, prior experience with scalable architecture
• Possess 12+ years of software engineering and product delivery experience
• Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
• Exceptional coding skills in either Java or Go
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Good knowledge of distributed technologies, real-time systems of high throughput, low latency, and highly scalable systems.
• Experience with high-performance product lines catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus.
  
  

What will you get to do here?

• Define and implement a long-term technology vision for your team.
• Serve as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects across the Storefront organization.
• Come up with best practices to help the team achieve their technical tasks and continually thrive in improving the technology of the product/team.
• Decide technology & tool choices for your team. Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you can create.
• Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems. Responsible for end-to-end architecture, high-level design/low-level design of various systems and applications that you are assigned to.
• You will also be responsible for writing code and deploying these enterprise applications to production, including operational excellence.
  
  

Visit our tech blogs to learn more about some of the challenges we deal with:

https://bytes.swiggy.com/the-swiggy-delivery-challenge-part-one-6a2abb4f82f6

https://bytes.swiggy.com/swiggy-distance-service-9868dcf613f4

https://bytes.swiggy.com/the-tech-that-brings-you-your-food-1a7926229886

We are an equal-opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.