Principal Engineer - Backend

About us

With our de-licious fresh meat and seafood, we are

Licious —India’s leading D2C food-tech brand. Founded in 2015 by

Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta , we are headquartered in Bengaluru, delivering high-quality, fresh meat and seafood to over 32 lakh customers across 20 cities.

Ready to add your unique flavor to Licious? Read on!

Role Overview

We’re looking for a

Principal Backend Engineer

to lead the design and development of key systems that power both the

consumer experience

(personalization, search, recommendations) and the

supply chain

(inventory, routing, fulfillment, lastmile). This is a highly strategic role for someone who can think end-to-end, connect business needs to technical decisions, and drive scalable architecture in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

Consumer Experience & Personalization

Design scalable, low-latency systems that power homepage, product carousels, and dynamic promotions.

Build real-time

personalization and recommendation platforms

using customer interactions, session data, and ML signals.

Collaborate with data science to serve

contextual recommendations, ranking algorithms, and customer segmentation .

Architect APIs and services that support

multi-tenant, multi-device user experiences

with high reliability.

Capture behavioral signals and build infrastructure for

event-based personalization

and nudges (e.g., abandoned cart, repeat prompts).

Supply Chain, Fulfillment & Inventory

Lead the engineering for platforms managing

cluster-based inventory, demand-supply sync, pricing rules , and

order orchestration .

Drive automation and intelligence in

procurement planning, production ops, batch tracking, and cold-chain management .

Optimize for

scalability, uptime, and fault-tolerance

across multiple fulfillment nodes and delivery partners.

Build platforms that support real-time availability, dynamic SLA promises, and last-mile routing decisions.

Integrate with logistics, ERP, and analytics systems to create a

seamless supply-demand loop .

Tech Stack

Languages : Java (Spring Boot)-

Mandatory , Python / Golang-

Good to Have

Eventing & Streaming :

Kafka or RabbitMQ

Datastores :

MySQL, Redis, MongoDB

Infra & Observability :

Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch

ML / Recommendations :

AWS Personalize, in-house ML APIs, feature stores-

Good to Have

What We’re Looking For

7 to 10 years of backend engineering experience with strong fundamentals in

distributed systems and large-scale architecture .

Solid understanding of

streaming systems , caching, queuing, and

performance tuning

for low-latency.

Ability to partner with

data science, product, business, and design

to deliver impact-driven platforms.

Experience working in

high-growth, multi-disciplinary environments

with product-market complexity.

Passion for

clean code, mentoring engineers , and raising the bar across teams.

Deep experience building

consumer platforms

(e.g., search, personalization, real-time APIs) and

supply systems

(e.g., inventory, logistics, pricing) is good to have.