Software Engineer - Backend

About Company 

At Shopflo, we're trying to change the way the world shops. We are a high-growth SaaS startup building a checkout stack for e-commerce. We started with the vision to help new-age merchants transform the way they sell to and engage with customers online while making shopping smarter and completely hassle-free for the shoppers.
Shopflo was started by three co-founders: Ankit (ex-IIT Kharagpur, Oracle, Gupshup), Ishan (ex-IIT Bombay, Parthenon, Elevation Capital), and Priy (ex-IIT Madras, McKinsey, Elevation Capital). 

Team & Role

We are a team of 35 people now (with team members joining from Livspace, Gupshup, Setu, etc.). This is a high-impact, critical role to craft the future roadmap of the organisation. We have closed our first seed round with marquee global & Indian VC funds as well as prominent angels in the ecosystem. And we’re just getting started!

What you will do:

• Design and develop microservice that can work in a large-scale multi-tenant environment.
• Explore design implications and work towards an appropriate balance between functionality, performance, and maintainability.
• Working with a cross-discipline team of Design, Product, Data Science and Analytics team.
• Deploy and maintain the application in a secured AWS environment.
• Take ownership from the ideation phase to deployment and maintenance.
• Active participation in the hiring process to bring world-class programmers to the team.

You should apply if you have:

• Strong programming skills in Java, Javascript/TypeScript, Python or Go.
• Hands-on experience in API development and frameworks such as Spring,  Express, or Django.
• Good Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience in test-driven development. (writing unit test and API test).
• Understanding of basic cloud computing concepts and experience in using any of the major cloud service providers(AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Ability to build and deploy the application in a containerized environment.
• Understanding of application logging and monitoring systems like Prometheus or Kibana.
• B. E/B. Tech/M. E. /M. Tech/M. S. from a reputed university with a good academic record.
• Curiosity to explore cutting-edge technologies and bake them into the products.
• Zeal and drive to take end-to-end ownership.
• 2-4  years of experience in server-side development.