Engineer

Chennai, Tamil nadu, India

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Read this further ONLY if you think Code is the most beautiful thing in the world! 

You do? Good! Now, Go on, ONLY if you chose programming, not because it pays a lot, but because you find it intriguing.

Nice! you made it this far! Just one more now! Move on, ONLY if happiness to you is to make the world a better place, even if just by a little!

Awesome Superstar! Looks like you are the one we have been looking for. For what you might ask. Here goes:


About Shopo
Shopo.in is a technology centric company building a credible and secure marketplace for everything with an Indian heart. Started by a team that has been part of early stage technology and media startups previously and also hail from top rung universities in India, Shopo is backed by highly esteemed VC funds and angel investors keen on adding value to over 35.4 Million+ Indian artisans and designers.

Who are we?
Krithika Nelson, after 5+ adventurous years of building meaningful content and creative concepts for Web, TV and Radio and 2 years of playing manager, decided to give it all up and start something that will make the lives of Indian artists and artisans better! She is a gold medalist Electronic Media graduate from Madras University.
She takes care of the designing, seller communications and branding of Shopo.

Theyagarajan S, gets his high when he sees his code impact a few hundred thousands.His mom was convinced he had been kidnapped after he slept under the office table for 4 days writing code. Prior to shopo he was one of the early engineers at BankBazaar.com and he was also an active contributor to opensource project LDTP. He is a Computer Science and Engineering graduate from NIT Trichy. 
He takes care of technology and operations at Shopo.

What do we do?
Everything that makes up shopo.in, the e-commerce marketplace for all things Indian. The core work includes building a highly scalable and easy to use marketplace for both the not-so-tech-savvy sellers and buyers. This also includes highly customizable shopo marketplace platform, intelligent recommendation systems, reliable and highly customizable business automation work flows and a lot more, and take the same experience across platforms and devices (web,mobiles and smart phones).

Why work for shopo?
When you join Shopo, You are becoming a part of our core team that is solving a huge problem for millions of customers.  We believe in maintaining a flat organization and an agile work environment. Which means, each engineer, carries a lot of ownership for specific problems that interest them! Add to this, the excitement of adding tremendous value by working on high impact problems using innovative methods. Sounds like fun huh? Being a startup, You will be exposed to the big picture and get the opportunity to be a part of the big decisions as well. Also, being in a startup and a fast growing company provides you excellent learning and growth opportunities.

Want to join us?
If you are a smart software engineer for whom coding translates to passion, and if you are someone who believes that the work you do should impact a few million lives for the better, YOU are just the one we are looking for! These are the skills/qualifications that are preferred:

  • Bachelors or Masters engineering degree from a reputed college
  • Strong grasp of CS fundamentals and excellent problem solving abilities.
  • Experience with hands on coding and loves independent ownership of code.
  • Knowledge in performance, scalability and best practices.
  • Web savvy, Experience with Ruby,Python,PHP,Javascript is perfect but not a must.

We offer competitive salary and good equity.

Send your resumes to team@shopo.in if you are interested and spread the word around :)


PS: We are also looking for front end designers who are HTML and CSS Ninjas.. Pass on the news to them as well!