Principal Engineer

About us

With our de-licious fresh meat and seafood, we areLicious—India’s leading D2C food-tech brand. Founded in 2015 byAbhay 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 aPrincipal Backend Engineerto lead the design and development of key systems that power both theconsumer experience(personalization, search, recommendations) and thesupply 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 the homepage, product carousels, and dynamic promotions.
• Build real-timepersonalization and recommendation platformsusing customer interactions, session data, and ML signals.
• Collaborate with data science to servecontextual recommendations, ranking algorithms, and customer segmentation.
• Architect APIs and services that supportmulti-tenant, multi-device user experienceswith high reliability.
• Capture behavioral signals and build infrastructure forevent-based personalizationand nudges (e.g., abandoned cart, repeat prompts).

⚙️ Supply Chain, Fulfillment & Inventory

• Lead the engineering for platforms managingcluster-based inventory, demand-supply sync, pricing rules, andorder orchestration.
• Drive automation and intelligence inprocurement planning, production ops, batch tracking, and cold-chain management.
• Optimize forscalability, uptime, and fault-toleranceacross 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 aseamless supply-demand loop.

About Company

Licious is an online platform that delivers fresh, high-quality meat and seafood products. The company focuses on providing hygienically processed and packaged products with a wide variety of meat, fish, and other delicacies, ensuring convenience and quality for customers.