BigBasket - Technical Lead - Golang

About Bigbasket.com

At bigbasket.com we believe in being smart, quick and efficient, making your life as leisurely as possible.

We understand that in this fast-paced world, time is always of the essence and hence want to make your grocery shopping easy and convenient so that no time is wasted in this process. So, no more hassle of going down to the grocery store and long queues for billing etc.

You can browse through our varied range of products at bigbasket.com, order them and get them to be delivered at your own convenient time slot. We specially hand pick each and every product for you, putting it through a safety packaging process and finding your home, no matter how bad the wind is or how cold the weather is.

Our ''No questions asked refund' and ''10% off for a delayed delivery'' policy makes us a customer friendly online food and grocery store. Just follow three simple steps and get your order delivered - simply Browse, Add to cart & Choose delivery slot!

Job Description

Responsibilities :

• Design and develop core server-side components for Bigbasket.com consumer-facing site as well as for back-end logistics.
• Define and implement data flow/interactions across various business components.
• Prototype new ideas.
• Do code reviews, responsible for the delivery of the features/tasks at the highest quality within the committed timelines.
  
  

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Golang development.
• Strong hands-on experience with SQL, RDBMS, and Data Modeling.
• Strong hands-on experience with Web services, microservices, SOAP, and REST.
• Strong hands-on experience in using caching systems such as Aerospike, and Redis.
• Experience with database query tuning.
• Must be adaptive to experimenting with new technologies.
• Must have excellent communication (verbal and written), interpersonal, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Must be able to work independently and enjoy working in a fast-paced start-up environment.
• Experience with NoSQL like MongoDB, Cassandra, or Jackrabbit.
• Knowledge of Kafka or any message queue systems is desirable.
• Having an E-commerce search experience is a plus.
• Hands-on experience in REST API specification.
  
  

Why Explore a Career At Bigbasket.com

Bigbasket engineering thrives on out of the box thinking and relentless pursuit of excellence. We are looking for senior developers who share our passion for building world class software. If you are excited about the prospect of changing the way India shops for groceries and being a pioneer - then this a great home for you.

Not to mention the thrill of building products that millions use on a daily basis and using cutting edge technology to make the products customers love. While we are techies at heart - we don't use technology for the sake of technology, but pride ourselves in solving customer problems in the most efficient and elegant ways.

Do the customers really care about efficient implementation of Levenshtein Distance? Well no.

But they really appreciate when their typos are pardoned and don't get in the way. Similarly customers don't give a damn that robots efficiently segregate their packets, but they do care about their orders delivered in a timely way.

If you enjoy Coding, Testing and love solving business problems, then we'd like to meet you.

Bigbasket.com's Tech Stack : Python, Node.js, Java, Rabbitmq, Kafka, Aerospike, Redis, Elastic, Solr, MySQL, Android, iOS

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