Job Description

• Pune

Have you ever wanted to be on the ground floor of a well-funded, rapidly growing global startup that is disrupting the grocery industry? We are a dedicated team of professionals with a passion for grocery and who help grocers thrive by making sure our team at Takeoff thrives. Our core values are what drive our decisions every day. We foster an accessible, approachable, and supportive environment and work together to reach new milestones and motivate each other towards excellence. Our team is on a mission to transform the grocery industry for the better.

Are you looking to make an impact daily and help us disrupt a 100 year old industry? If so, please continue reading!

Takeoff Technologies, a Massachusetts-based tech company, is the creator of the world’s first automated micro-fulfillment center (MFCs) that transforms the way people access groceries. Our solution provides retailers with the most cost-efficient way to fulfill their online grocery orders, using automated, hyperlocal micro-fulfillment centers

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can take on the challenge of building a world class solution delivering orders by orcrating automation within micro-fulfillment centers. You will have the chance to explore and understand in-depth retail, grocery, and logistic businesses coupled with a cutting-edge tech stack as well as build skills across the entire software development lifecycle and work with motivated, smart, efficient, and committed people.

This is a hybrid role where some time will be spent in our Pune office and some time spent working remotely. The expectation is for this person to be in the office while in hybrid mode.

Why you'll love working at Takeoff:

• We're a successful, rapidly-growing startup with an entrepreneurial vibe
• We're disrupting the eGrocery industry with our innovative business model
• We're passionate about what we do
• We get to be creative on a daily basis
• You'll work with a smart, experienced leadership team that wants to do it right, and is open to new ideas
• We believe in autonomy, and reward those who take initiative
• We offer competitive salaries and comprehensive health benefits

A day in the life of a Senior Software Engineer will include:

• Be a part of the development team to build a scalable and robust egrocery platform.
• Articulate product requirements into user stories, design specifications and robust solutions
• Contribute, Influences and drives product design and architecture for current and long range product goals
• Review design and code of team members and provide necessary guidance
• Be a customer advocate and design with customer first mindset
• Reduce the complexity of projects/services/processes while reducing waste and tech debt
• Mentor and educate the team to adapt and implement guild decisions/outcomes
• Play an active role in design, development, implementation and monitoring of complex components of the product
• Write efficient, scalable, robust, testable, clean and maintainable code
• Write automated tests and documentation
• Maintain and improve existing codebase while refactoring and solve for broader tech-debt and design issues
• Work independently on analytical/complex/unknown areas
• Work across teams on common patterns and practices
• Partner with product, design, and peer engineering leads and managers
• Participate in on-call duties (as needed)
• Provide positive, constructive and actionable feedback, and clear direction in communications (verbal, e-mail, or other written artifacts)

Desired skills and experience:

• 6-10 yrs of experience in building enterprise-grade SaaS based products
• Should have strong experience in one of the programming languages GO (preferred), Java, Python.
• Should have hands-on experience in one of the public cloud platforms GCP(preferred), AWS, Azure.
• Should have good problem solving skills and willingness to learn new technologies.
• Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals like object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis.
• Should have experience in building distributed and loosely coupled systems
• Should have experience in serverless technologies, microservices architectures, web services, RESTful APIs, message queues and SQL/NoSQL databases
• Should have experience with containers and container management platforms (preferably Kubernetes), highly available systems, infrastructure as code patterns and canary deployment approaches.
• Should have experience in deploying software in cloud environment and to diagnose and resolve issues which arise during the installation process
• Should have good communication skills and experience working with cross geo-teams and mentoring teams
• Should have experience with containers, kubernetes and microservices.
• Should have experience in deploying software in cloud environment and to diagnose and resolve issues which arise during the installation process
• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer science or equivalent.