Job Description
- Owning end-to-end architecture for multi-tenant ordering, checkout, and fulfillment platforms across Swiggy, scaling to millions of transactions a day with 99.95%+ uptime while allowing new business lines to be launched safely and rapidly.
- Owning Tier-1 services serving millions of users daily at 100k+ rps, including being a decisive incident commander for high-severity, cross-team production issues - driving rigorous root-cause analysis and converting fixes into lasting guardrails (regression coverage, safer feature flags, canary practices).
- Making and defending cost/performance trade-offs with quantified impact (latency, infra cost, throughput) across the stack, not just backend - you’ll treat consumer-facing performance as an architecture problem.
- Building internal developer platforms and tooling (code-quality gates, self-serve environments, data platforms) that raise engineering leverage across teams, in addition to shipping features.
- Designing integrations that span organizational or company boundaries under hard external deadlines, balancing user experience against delivery speed.
- Guiding how applied ML and GenAI show up in the architecture - ranking, personalization, LLM-based tooling - as a routine part of the roadmap, not a side project.
- 15+ years of software engineering and product delivery experience, with deep, hands-on architecture ownership - not purely people management.
- Strong internals-level command of distributed systems: message queues (e.g. Kafka), relational and NoSQL databases (query optimizer behavior, indexing strategy, streams), caching (e.g. Redis), and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- A track record of leading incident response for high-severity, high-traffic production outages, with genuine 5-Whys RCA discipline.
- Experience designing and shipping internal platforms or tools that scale developer productivity org-wide.
- Excellent command of data structures and algorithms; exceptional coding skills in Java or Go.
- Comfort operating across the stack - deep in backend/data, credible on frontend and mobile performance.
- Working fluency with applied ML/GenAI in production systems.
- Experience in high-throughput consumer businesses (food delivery, quick-commerce, fintech, or similar) is a strong plus.
- Define and implement a long-term technology vision for Swiggy architecture.
- Serve as technical lead on the most demanding, cross-functional projects across the Swiggy organization, including cross-company integrations under real deadline pressure.
- Set best practices and technology/tool choices for your team, experimenting with new technologies and measuring yourself on the impact you create.
- Own end-to-end architecture, high-level and low-level design of the systems you’re responsible for, including writing code and operating what you ship in production.
- Lead the response to and learning from production incidents, shaping how the org prevents the next one.