Why This Role Matters
What You'll Own
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Node.js and NestJS, with Go for selected services.
- Build and optimize distributed systems using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Kafka.
- Own event-driven architectures, ensuring high throughput, reliability, fault tolerance, and scalability.
- Drive architectural decisions, document technical trade-offs, and improve system design across services.
- Deliver end-to-end features, contributing to frontend development in React or Svelte where required.
- Strengthen CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, and cloud infrastructure on AWS.
- Debug production issues, improve system performance, and ensure high service reliability.
- Review code, mentor Associate Engineers and SDE I engineers, and elevate engineering standards across the team.
- Take ownership of ambiguous technical problems and independently drive them from design through production deployment.
Who You Are
- Strong backend engineering experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, and NestJS.
- Working knowledge of Go or the willingness to learn and build production services with it.
- Strong understanding of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and distributed data systems.
- Experience designing and scaling event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar messaging systems.
- Comfortable working across the stack, including frontend technologies such as React or Svelte.
- Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, maintainability, and software architecture principles.
- Experience mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and driving engineering best practices.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Why GoKwik
Skills Required
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Node.js
- NestJS
- Go (working knowledge or willingness to learn)
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Kafka or similar messaging systems
- Event-driven architecture design and scaling
- AWS (cloud infrastructure)
- CI/CD pipelines and observability/monitoring
- Experience mentoring engineers and conducting code reviews
- Experience debugging production issues and performance optimization
- Comfortable contributing to frontend using React or Svelte
- Strong software architecture, scalability, reliability, and maintainability principles
What We Do
GoKwik is a data & technology led enabler, building a full-stack solution suite for eCommerce and D2C brands to help them unlock business growth. Embarked on a mission to democratise the shopping experience, GoKwik enables eCommerce brands to deliver superlative customer experience across the shopping funnel thereby boosting conversion rates and revenue growth. It also solves for other critical pain points of the industry such as COD RTO (Return to Origin) and helps brands manage the RTO problem while offering COD as a payment channel. With its recent addition of a third product: KwikChat, GoKwik is solving for low ROIs on marketing campaigns through 30+ Whatsapp use cases such as abandoned cart recovery, click to whatsapp ad campaigns & headless checkout. 1 in 3 shoppers is already shopping on the GoKwik network that has helped 500+ brands scale their businesses with higher GMV realisation & profit margins. It is helmed by Chirag Taneja (Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer), Vivek Bajpai (Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer), and Ankush Talwar (Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist). GoKwik is backed by investors such as Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners India, RTP Global & Think Investments. GoKwik's team has deep knowledge in the space of eCommerce with people having previous experience in Flipkart, Razorpay, Swiggy, Myntra, Nykaa, and more.
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