Lead Software Engineer

Anakin - What do we do?

At Anakin, we’re revolutionising Pricing intelligence by enabling large global e-commerce companies to optimise their pricing strategies and stay one step ahead of their competitors.

Our technology engine has the capability to automatically find, analyse, and generate insights around hundreds of millions of online listed products across more than 15+ countries in real-time. By leveraging advanced algorithms and intelligent automation, Anakin empowers its clients to make dynamic and real-time pricing adjustments that align with market demands and competitor strategies.

Founded in 2020 by Mohit Prateek (IIT Bombay) and Rashmi Bala (IIT Kanpur), Anakin is a Y-Combinator 21 backed team of 35+ members and revenue growth of 20%+ month on month. Visit www.anakin.company, TechCrunch, and VCCircle for more information.

Role Brief -

At Anakin, Lead Engineer will own, solve problem statements and derive solutions that enable us to productize our solution, find out ways to automate workflows to bring out efficiencies and mentor engineers to do their best. If you are someone who likes to work with an early stage startup that is building a SAAS product from scratch and solving customers' data related challenges, this is an amazing opportunity.

What will you do?

1. Understand the team's technical needs and find possible architectural solutions using your knowledge of Anakin's product structure.
2. Take ownership of solutions, guiding engineers through every step from design, implementation, testing, and deployment to continuous monitoring.
3. Take charge of components and subsystems, overseeing their journey across design, coding, testing, integration, deployment, debugging and ongoing enhancements.
4. Use best engineering practices for refactoring and code modularization
5. Contributing to the design and development of new products and features for pricing solutions.
6. Ensure adherence to engineering processes while upholding top-notch product quality.
7. Develop and implement engineering projects from concept to completion.
8. Analyse data and performance metrics to identify areas for improvement.
9. Provide technical direction & engineering leadership for our team of engineers. 10.Examine the work of others (code, design) and offer direction to ensure uniform and reliable execution. 11.Create easy-to-understand documentation that helps other engineers quickly join in and complete tasks.

What do you bring to the table?

• B.Tech/M.Tech (Bachelor Degree) in engineering or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
• The ability to own end-to-end responsibility right from the requirement to release.
• Ability to mentor and guide junior engineers.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and address complex technical issues.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Expertise in system design. Our current tech stack -
• Python/Java/NodeJS/TypeScript
• AWS - (EC2, S3, SQS, Lambda, ECR, ECS)
• Database - Postgres/Any SQL database, MongoDB
• GCP - BigQuery
• CI/CD - (Jenkins, Docker)
• JIRA & Confluence

You would be a great fit, if you know -

• Web crawling/Scraping knowledge
• Good experience in reverse engineering
• Django/Flask
• Redis
• Kubernetes.

Perks and Benefits -

• Medical Insurance coverage.
• Breakfast and Lunch in the pantry.

R1 - HackerRank Test
R2 - Live coding interview (DSA)
R3 - System Design
R4 - Cult-fitment
R5 - Final tech round with CTO
R6 - Final interview with CEO