SDE3/Tech Lead

WHY HOMERUN? Homerun is a Series A, quick-commerce startup based out of Bangalore and one of India's fastest-growing startups building toward becoming a unicorn in the home and construction materials space. We're early-stage, assembling our engineering team from the ground up, and shipping the backend systems that power everything from catalog and orders to payments and delivery. We move fast, think big, and build without bureaucracy.

Own the full product stack zero hand-holding, full accountability

Write production Go from week one and see your code serve real customers

Join early and help set the culture your fingerprints will be all over this company

Scale fast without layers of bureaucracy slowing you down

Work alongside a passionate, mission-driven founding team

Bangalore-based, in-person energy with a high-ownership culture

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

Backend & Go 37 years of backend engineering experience, with at least 12 years writing production Go (or a strong systems-language background with demonstrated Go proficiency).

PostgreSQL Deep experience with schema design for transactional systems, indexing strategies, query plans, migrations, and connection pooling.

Redis Hands-on beyond basic key-value pub/sub, sorted sets for leaderboards/queues, and caching patterns like write-through and cache-aside.

Cloud Infrastructure GCP or AWS experience where you've set up and managed production infrastructure yourself not just deployed to someone else's setup.

DevOps Strong fundamentals across Docker, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred), container orchestration (Cloud Run or similar), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform is a plus).

API Design Experience designing RESTful APIs at scale versioning, pagination, idempotency, auth flows (JWT + refresh tokens), and consistent error handling.

Observability Structured logging (zerolog/zap), distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), metrics (Prometheus/Grafana or GCP Cloud Monitoring), and alerting.

Product Mindset You think about what the API enables for users not just what it returns as JSON.

Ownership Comfortable with ambiguity, fast iteration cycles, and owning problems end-to-end from design deploy on-call.

Bengaluru, Karnataka Full-time On-site