Job Description

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Our Story

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers groceries in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country! We’re scaling up throughout in Mumbai Bangalore, Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai quickly and, in the next six months, few more cities.

We’re incredibly well-funded and just closed a Series D fundraise of 200M USD. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with senior executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.

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

• Develop high quality Javascript (ES6) code for our React based web applications.
• Coordinate with backend engineers to establish JSON-based APIs.
• Optimize application for maximum speed and compatibility.
• Integrating third-party dependencies and debugging dependency conflicts
• Incorporate engineering best practices, methodologies & standards in all deliverables
• Pay close attention to details and be able to follow specifications and mockups (pixel perfect).
• Making recommendations to address UI/UX issues.

Requirements:

• 2 - 4 years of experience building web applications.
• Proficient with React JS
• Ability to work through new and complex React JS issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Engineers who are obsessed with optimizations and are ready to go the extra mile to deliver the best web app experience to the customers.
• Firm grasp of the JavaScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax and Typescript.
• Experience in writing unit testing code with libraries like Jest, Enzyme, Jasmine, Mocha, etc.
• Good knowledge of monitoring and tracking down web crashes and bugs using advanced tools.
• 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.

Education/Qualification: BE/B.Tech/MSc/MCA