Software Engineer – III

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Provide technical leadership for a crucial workstream within this platform.

• Take ownership of the technical design and quality of services within your workstream, including:

• Multi-client inventory management and warehouse allocation.

• Order intake, routing, and fulfillment orchestration.

• Shipment tracking and carrier integrations.

• Client onboarding and data integration (APIs, EDI, flat-file).

• Returns and exception-handling workflows.

• Decompose ambiguous problems into clear technical plans for the engineering team.

• Ensure designs are in alignment with the overall platform architecture established by Staff engineers.

• Lead the integration of forecasting, ETA prediction, or anomaly-detection signals into the fulfillment workflows of your workstream.

• Collaborate with Staff engineers and data/ML engineers to translate model outputs into reliable operational logic.

• Establish the standards for detecting and automatically acting on exceptions and anomalies within your domain.

• Serve as the primary technical decision-maker for engineers in your workstream, without formal people-management authority.

• Facilitate or contribute significantly to design reviews, resolving technical debates with sound judgment.

• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing sessions, and technical guidance.

• Leverage strong knowledge of order-to-fulfillment processes to inform design choices and identify edge cases early.

• Alert the Engineering Manager to any people or delivery risks while maintaining focus on technical leadership.

• Define and enforce standards for testing, observability, and reliability within your workstream.

• Actively identify and reduce technical debt as the platform evolves.

• Ensure that the services in your workstream are well-documented and accessible for others to build upon.

• Collaborate closely with Staff engineers, product, and operations stakeholders to clarify requirements and set priorities.

• Represent your workstream in cross-team architecture discussions.

• Clearly communicate technical trade-offs and risks to both engineers and stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• 6–8+ years of experience in building and shipping production backend systems.

• Experience leading the technical direction of a team or workstream, either informally or formally (design reviews, mentorship, establishing standards).

• Familiarity with e-commerce order management, inventory, warehouse, or logistics systems is highly advantageous.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving 0-to-1 environment.

• Strong foundational knowledge in backend engineering: APIs, data modeling, databases, and distributed systems.

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and cloud-native service design.

• Understanding of event-driven architectures (queues, streams, async processing).

• Strong practices in testing, debugging, and production support.

• Capacity to set technical direction and make well-informed judgment calls without direct authority.

• Strong instincts for code review and mentorship.

• Comfort in representing a workstream in broader architectural discussions.

• Exposure to EDI standards or 3PL/WMS integration patterns (Nice to Have).

• Experience in integrating ML model outputs (forecasts, predictions, anomaly scores) into application logic (Nice to Have).

• Interest in developing domain expertise in e-commerce logistics and fulfillment (Nice to Have).

• Ability to influence and align engineers without formal authority.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly in asynchronous and distributed team environments.

• Comfort in balancing hands-on technical work with guiding others.

🏝️ Benefits

• This position is remote, and candidates must have a suitable work-from-home setup.

• PC Headset.

• A high-definition (HD) external or integrated webcam with a minimum resolution of 720p.