About Rapido:

Founded in 2015, Rapido is India’s 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% share—establishing 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, we’re expanding into new categories while remaining committed to improving last-mile connectivity and empowering livelihoods at scale.

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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 3 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

Excited to solve challenges? Join Rapido & chase bigger milestones too!