About Rapido :

Founded in 2015, Rapido is Indias leading multi-modal mobility platform. What began with bike taxis has rapidly evolved to include auto-rickshaws, cab-hailing, and peer-to-peer deliveries. Today, Rapido commands a dominant 70% market share in bike taxis, 40% in auto rides, and holds the second-largest position in the cab segment with a 22% shareestablishing us as the overall market leader in ride-hailing.

With over 4 million rides completed daily and more than 2 billion rides served to date, Rapido operates in 200+ cities and is aggressively expanding toward a presence in 500 cities. In 2024, we proudly achieved unicorn status with a valuation of $1.1 billion. Driven by technology and innovation, were expanding into new categories while remaining committed to improving last-mile connectivity and empowering livelihoods at scale.

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Job Summary :

As Principal Product Engineer, you will be responsible for designing the structure of our IT systems and overseeing programs to ensure the proper architecture is implemented. You will own the architecture and design of your suite of products and be responsible for - scaling, performance, availability & quality of the products; driving technology & best practices in engineering; driving code reviews, design reviews, and architecture discussions; driving the adoption of these best practices. In this role, you should be an excellent communicator who is able to translate complex requirements into the functional architecture

Job Responsibilities :

- Understand company needs to define system specifications and communicate them to the software development teams.

- Understand Business requirements and utilize product knowledge to make decisions in line with company objectives.

- Able to make decisions along with the team on the choice of the tech stack.

- Passionate about writing code that is reusable, replicable, and scalable

- Own multiple systems and work with engineers, product managers, and engineering leaders to identify opportunities for business impact

- Participate in setting a vision and objectives for the team in alignment with business and market needs

- Provide mentorship in framework design to engineer product development teams

- Steer and collaborate effectively with the team of developers and engineers till the product goes live. Ensure the implementation of the agreed architecture and infrastructure

- Providing technical leadership and support to software development teams. Oversee assigned programs (e. g. conduct code review) and provide guidance to team members.

Job Requirements :

- B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/experience.

- Minimum 9+ years of experience in software development using one or more of Go / NodeJs / Java and the

ability to manage complex programs

- Experience in data modeling, distributed system design, creating and managing microservice architecture, and communication protocol

- Must have experience in working with NoSQL databases (Mongo | ES | Cassandra). Good to have exposure to SQL databases (Postgres | MySQL)

- Must have experience working on event-driven architecture with exposure to one of the messaging systems (Kafka , Google Pub Sub , AWS SQS , RabbitMQ)

- Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript and CSS)

- Strong knowledge of design principles, user interfaces, web standards, and usability.

- Excellent analytical, and people management skills with a problem-solving attitude.

Whats 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 RPS 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

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