Our Story:
Zepto is one of the fastest growing startups in India today. Just 6 months  after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee investors in Silicon  Valley and India.

Our Founders, Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra, dropped out of Stanford  University to build Zepto in India. Together, they’ve created an incredibly  strong team, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11,  Pepperfry, and Pharmeasy.

The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 3,000+ products in  10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been  able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple:  to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.

Engineering @ Zepto:
Building for scale, rapid iterative development, and customer-centric product  thinking at each step define every day for a Zepto engineer. If building  technology that impacts millions, brainstorming with some of the best minds  in the country, executing at lightning speed, product-driven thinking, and  owning your work from start to finish excites you, then Zepto is the right place  for you.

Primary Responsibilities:
As a Senior Backend Developer, you will work very closely with the Tech Leadership and lead end-to-end development. We’re looking for people  who can:

Closely collaborate with product, design and business teams to  understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver  these as a series of ultra fast experiments.
Architect and implement backend services with high reliability and  scalability.
Contribute to system architecture and database design. 
Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption. 
Write quality documentation and handle conflicts well to build  consensus.
Learn about new technologies and incorporate them.
Mentor young minds and foster team spirit.

What Are We Looking For?
4+ years of experience with Java frameworks like Spring/ Dropwizard/ Play or Python frameworks like Django/Flask/FastApi  and databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB
Experience in building highly scalable customer-facing applications that involve implementing complex business flows and dealing with  an ever-increasing scale
Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of  design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive  module and class-level interfaces.
Experience in service-oriented architecture design.
Experience building at least one application from scratch. 
Experience with cache store/message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ /Kafka.
Interest in learning new languages/framework as needed. 
Worked in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most importantly, you should be fun to work with.

Why Join Us?
Zepto is on a blitzscaling path unlike any other startup today. 
The opportunity to join India’s next Unicorn is rare. 
Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial  equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the  company grows.
Round	Type	Description
1	DS/Algo	This round will be on Problem Solving and DS/Algo
2	LLD	This round will be based on LLD
3	HLD	This round will be on HLD
4	Discussion Round	This will be an optional round with the Hiring Manager
Senior Software Engineer

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Perks and Benefits at Zepto

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