We are India’s largest bike-taxi platform, steadily venturing into Auto, Cabs, Delivery, Rental, and more. Currently, present in ~100 cities, we are growing close to ~50% year-on-year with steady funding. We have changed the concept of intra-city travel and made last-mile connectivity affordable to all. Along with being the #1 choice of 40 million people, we have also built a solid captain base of over 5 million registered captains, who have bettered their lives with Rapido. As an employer, we provide a lot of ownership to our team members providing multiple avenues for them to grow within the company. You will only grow with us with the right balance of ambition, fun, and transparent work culture!
Rapido Cabs made its debut on May 2023, marking the commencement of its services in eight cities. Notably, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Delhi stand out as the primary cities for this initial launch. However, the ambitious plan includes an extensive expansion to encompass over 50 cities in the coming 12 months.
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Job Summary:
As a Senior Product Engineer, you are expected to design, implement, deliver, monitor, operate, and improve features on a system that spans a diverse tech landscape, striking a balance between business priorities and the technical vision of the organization. The coolest part of this role is the ability to own the future of products, ensure quality and longevity, and see the results of your efforts in people's everyday lives. You will be part of a growing team, that delivers value to our customers through creative improvements to our product. You will collaborate with other developers, write code you are proud of, and deliver amazing results that our users love while constantly learning throughout the process.
Job Responsibilities:
End-to-end feature development, all the way through ideation, design of the solution, implementation, delivery, monitoring, operating at scale, and impact analysis.
Design distributed systems with an eye on scalability and resilience
Evangelize clean coding practices utilizing code reviews and tech discussions to drive the same
Be part of a team that values continuous learning and pushes the boundaries to improve individually and collectively
Work across a diverse tech landscape, thus expanding the breadth of knowledge and having an opportunity to go in-depth in an area of your choice - Go | Java | NodeJs | Mongo | Elasticsearch | Cassandra | Kafka | Redis | Postgres | MySQL | Kubernetes | Flink | Spark | Airflow
Exhibit utmost rigor when it comes to production systems and their performance and leave no stone unturned when it comes to carrying out a post-mortem for an issue in production
Go beyond the obvious, go in-depth, as with scale many things are beyond obvious reasoning
Job Requirements:
B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/experience
Minimum 2 - 7 years of experience in software development using Go / NodeJs / Java
Good exposure working with microservices
Solid experience in working with NoSQL databases (Mongo | ES | Cassandra). Good to have exposure to SQL databases (Postgres | MySQL)
Architectural awareness of distributed system concepts and event-driven architecture
Experience working with an Agile cross-functional team and collaborating to achieve common goals.
Passion for learning new things and solving challenging problems
Willingness to give and take feedback, learn, and improve
What’s there for you?
Our team handles everything – infra, tooling, and self-manages a bunch of databases, such as:
150+ microservices with event-driven architecture across different tech stacks
More than 100,000 Request per second of internet traffic on our edge gateways
~20,000 events processed per second
100s of TBs of data on self-managed databases
Real-time continuous deployments at scale.100s of deployments every week to production
Bleeding-edge tech like Golang, Mongo, ES, Kafka, Kubernetes, Istio