Have you ever wanted to be on the ground floor of a well-funded, rapidly growing global startup that is disrupting the grocery industry? We are a dedicated team of professionals with a passion for grocery and who help grocers thrive by making sure our team at Takeoff thrives. Our core values are what drive our decisions every day. We foster an accessible, approachable, and supportive environment and work together to reach new milestones and motivate each other towards excellence. Our team is on a mission to transform the grocery industry for the better.

Are you looking to make an impact daily and help us disrupt a 100 year old industry? If so, please continue reading!

Takeoff Technologies, a Massachusetts-based tech company, is the creator of the world’s first automated micro-fulfillment center (MFCs) that transforms the way people access groceries. Our solution provides retailers with the most cost-efficient way to fulfill their online grocery orders, using automated, hyperlocal micro-fulfillment centers.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who can take on the challenge of building a world class solution delivering orders by orchestrating automation within micro-fulfillment centers. You will have the chance to explore and understand in-depth retail, grocery, and logistic businesses coupled with a cutting-edge tech stack as well as build skills across the entire software development lifecycle and work with motivated, smart, efficient, and committed people.

This is a hybrid role where some time will be spent in our Pune office and some time spent working remotely. The expectation is for this person to be in the office 2-3 days a week.

Why you'll love working at Takeoff:

• We're a successful, rapidly-growing startup with an entrepreneurial vibe
• We're disrupting the eGrocery industry with our innovative business model
• We're passionate about what we do
• We get to be creative on a daily basis
• You'll work with a smart, experienced leadership team that wants to do it right, and is open to new ideas
• We believe in autonomy, and reward those who take initiative
• We offer competitive salaries and comprehensive health benefits

A day in the life of a Staff Software Engineer will include:

• Build a team and cultivate innovation by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.
• Enable and facilitate problem diagnosis and resolution in technical and functional areas
• Establish and maintain effective communications and working relationships across the organization
• Mentor and train other team members. Review the work of other engineers in a collegial fashion to promote growth and improve quality and engineering practices.
• Lead architecting new systems/technologies/processes to stay current and move the organizational stack to latest track
• Gain good understanding of the business domain and gauge impact of the choices made to translate organizations OKR into actionable work items and drive them
• Work with the leadership to carve out multi-quarter roadmap for the domain/guild/product
• Take ownership and pave out the path for highly complex/unknown areas
• Make significant contributions to the company/ industry and demonstrate a high level of knowledge and skill in the field/domain
• Engage with cross-organizational teams such as Product Management, Integrations, Services, Support and Operations, to ensure success of overall software development, implementation and deployment.
• Participate in on-call duties (as needed)
• Provide positive, constructive and actionable feedback, and clear direction in communications (verbal, e-mail, or other written artifacts)

Desired skills and experience:

• 10+ years of experience in building large scale business applications
• Should have a strong track record of growing and influencing others and working with all levels of senior leadership
• Demonstrated proficiency in understanding and delivering highly performant enterprise grade applications
• Should have solid experience in architecting products and solutions using one of the public cloud platforms GCP(preferred), AWS, Azure.
• Experienced engineer with interpreting and predicting outcomes of business and technology decisions and tuning the execution.
• Experience with designing for an enterprise grade multi-tenant system
• Should have experience with containers and container management platforms (preferably Kubernetes), highly available systems, infrastructure as code patterns and canary deployment approaches.
• Experience with refactoring and modularizing legacy applications
• Experience designing solutions with heterogeneous technology stacks
• Should have good communication skills and experience working with cross geo-teams and mentoring teams
• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer science or equivalent.

Still need more convincing as to why you should go ahead and apply? Take a look at what our employees are saying here https://www.takeoff.com/career about what the experience and day to day is like at Takeoff!

Our culture revolves around our core values of respect, initiative, collaboration, adaptability and diversity. As people, we value hard work, but we balance it with socializing as a team, respecting our time outside of work, and appreciating our coworkers’ unique walks of life.