Meesho is an Indian e-commerce marketplace that connects hundreds of thousands of small sellers to consumers nationwide through its app-based platform.
When 5% of Indian households shop with us, it’s important to build data-backed, resilient systems to manage millions of orders every day. We’ve done this – with zero downtime! 😎 Sounds impossible? Well, that’s the kind of Engineering muscle that has helped Meesho become the e-commerce giant that it is today. We value speed over perfection, and see failures as opportunities to become better. We’ve taken steps to inculcate a strong ‘Founder’s Mindset’ across our engineering teams, making us grow and move fast. We place special emphasis on the continuous growth of each team member - and we do this with regular 1-1s and open communication. Tech Culture We have a unique tech culture where engineers are seen as problem solvers. The engineering org is divided into multiple pods and each pod is aligned to a particular business theme. It is a culture driven by logical debates & arguments rather than authority. At Meesho, you get to solve hard technical problems at scale as well as have a significant impact on the lives of millions of entrepreneurs. You are expected to contribute to the Solutioning of product problems as well as challenge existing solutions. Meesho’s user base has grown 4x in the last 1 year and we have more than 50 million downloads of our app. Here are a few projects we have completed last year to scale oursystems for this growth: ● We have developed API gateway aggregators using frameworks like Hystrix and spring-cloud-gateway for circuit breaking and parallel processing. ● Our serving microservices handle more than 15K RPS on normal days and during saledays this can go to 30K RPS. Being a consumer app, these systems have SLAs of ~10ms ● Our distributed scheduler tracks more than 50 million shipments periodically fromdifferent partners and does async processing involving RDBMS. ● We use an in-house video streaming platform to support a wide variety of devices and networks.