Engineering Manager- Infrastructure platform

Meesho is India’s fastest-growing internet commerce company, driven by the mission todemocratize e-commerce for everyone. Our vision is to enable 100 million small businessesand entrepreneurs in India to succeed online, making online commerce accessible to all. Thiscore purpose guides us in empowering sellers across the country and bringing a diverse rangeof products to first-time internet shoppers. By leveraging technology and a uniquesocial-commerce model, Meesho has opened the doors of e-commerce to millions who werepreviously underserved.

At Meesho, technology is at the heart of our success. We have invested in a scalableinfrastructure and innovative solutions to meet the demands of a vast user base and complexmarketplace. Some key highlights include:

● Massive Scale: Our backend systems handle millions of orders per day from acrossIndia, reaching about 5% of all Indian households, all with near-zero downtime to date.Achieving this level of reliability and performance in a hyper-growth environment is atestament to our engineering excellence.

● Scale converted to Infrastructure: Our production systems in its peak handle a cumulative 14 M RPS, powered by  over 1000+ microservices spawning over 450K cores running on public cloud. Every service is containerised and runs on multiple Kubernetes clusters with inter and intra cluster traffic doing pod-to-pod direct communication.

● Marketplace Reach: Over 1.75 million sellers are registered on Meesho’s platform,supported by our state-of-the-art tech infrastructure and pan-India logistics network.This wide reach — covering virtually every serviceable pin code in the country —presents unique engineering challenges in areas like search, personalization, andpayments at scale.

● Scalable Architecture: We continually innovate our architecture for growth. Meeshobegan with a monolithic codebase but quickly evolved to a microservices-drivenarchitecture, re-architecting critical systems to seamlessly handle current and futurescale. This evolution allows us to build and deploy features rapidly while maintainingstability for a fast-growing user base.

● Cutting-edge Tech Stack: Our platform is built using modern, open-source technologieson the cloud. We strategically choose proven tools (example, Kubernetes for containerisation, Java and Golang forservices, Kafka, Redis, ScyllaDB, mysql etc) and leverage GCP cloudinfrastructure to ensure high performance, reliability, and flexibility. By focusing on theright tools for the right problems, we innovate pragmatically rather than chasing everynew tech hype, which helps us solve real-world problems effectively.

Engineering at Meesho is driven by a bold and inclusive culture that values innovation,ownership, and continuous improvement. We believe that building great products goeshand-in-hand with building a great team. Key aspects of our engineering cultureinclude:

● Speed Over Perfection: We prioritize rapid iteration and delivery. Engineers areencouraged to ship fast and refine continuously, as we value speed over perfection inorder to learn and adapt quickly.

● Continuous Improvement: We view failures and bugs as opportunities to improve. Ablameless post-mortem culture ensures that mistakes become lessons, fostering anenvironment where learning from failure drives resilience and innovation.

● Ownership Mindset: Every engineer is empowered to act like an owner. We instill a“Founder’s Mindset,” encouraging engineers to take end-to-end ownership of projectsand drive them with an entrepreneurial spirit. This means our teams proactively identifyproblems and champion solutions, just as a founder would for their own product.

Engineering at Meesho is more than just writing code – it's about solving complex, impactfulproblems at an unprecedented scale. Our engineers tackle challenging use cases (from enabling real-time logistics across India to optimizing a vast product catalog for the next billionusers), making a tangible impact on millions of entrepreneurs and customers. We maintain aprofessional, yet passionate work environment where the drive to innovate is balanced with apragmatic approach to problem-solving.

We are looking for an technically driven Engineering Manager well-versed with emerging technologies to join our team.As an Engineering Manager, you will ensure consistency and quality by shaping the rightstrategies. You will keep an eye on all engineering projects and ensure all duties are fulfilled. You will analyse other employees’ tasks and carry on collaborations effectively. You will also transform newbies into experts and build reports on the progress of all projects.