Senior Software Engineer

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 worlds 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 2-3 days a week.

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.
 Still need more convincing as to why you should go ahead and apply  Take a look at what our employees are saying here https://www.takeoff.com/career about what the experience and day to day is like at Takeoff!

Our culture revolves around our core values of respect, initiative, collaboration, adaptability and diversity. As people, we value hard work, but we balance it with socializing as a team, respecting our time outside of work, and appreciating our coworkers unique walks of life,