About Snapmint Founded by IIT Bombay alumni (Nalin Agrawal, Anil Gelra, Abhineet Sawa), Snapmint is building India’s most loved payment brand. We pioneered Pay in 3 through UPI and are also home to India’s leading 0% EMI ecommerce app — giving millions of Indians the freedom to shop now and pay in monthly instalments, with no extra cost and no credit card required.

Today, Snapmint has crossed 50M+ app downloads and is the preferred payment partner for 2,000+ leading consumer brands, including Zepto, ixigo, Adani, District Store, Titan and many more. Headquartered in Mumbai, with offices across major metros including Bengaluru, Gurugram, Delhi and Jaipur, we’re building at the intersection of commerce, credit, technology and culture. If you want to work on a product used by millions, build a brand people genuinely love, and help redefine how the next generation of India pays and spends you’ll fit right in.

Come build Snapmint and help us change how India pays.

This role is responsible for building industry-leading search experiences that help millions of users discover relevant products quickly and efficiently across Snapmint's ecommerce ecosystem.

As a Principal Engineer, you will drive technical strategy, mentor engineering teams, influence cross-functional product decisions, and architect highly scalable, low-latency search systems leveraging modern Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, and Generative AI technologies.

Employment Type: Fulltime
• Experience: 10-13 Yrs.
• Working Model: Work from Office – 5 Days per Week

Establish best practices for scalability, performance, observability, and operational excellence.
• Define search quality metrics (CTR,



Conversion, Recall, Precision, Latency) and drive continuous improvement through experimentation and A/B testing.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, Catalog, and Personalization teams to enhance product discoverability and customer experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building large-scale Search,
Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed backend systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with query understanding systems such as spell correction, synonym
Experience building scalable search APIs and search platforms serving high-volume traffic.
• Expertise in search performance optimization, capacity planning, caching strategies, and low-latency architecture.
• Strong knowledge of semantic search, embeddings, vector databases, and hybrid retrieval
Experience implementing Learning-to-Rank frameworks and ML-driven ranking systems in production environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large technical initiatives and influence cross-functional engineering
Experience building Search & Discovery platforms for ecommerce, fintech marketplaces, or large
Experience with Generative AI and LLM-powered search, including:
Experience with vector databases and modern retrieval frameworks.
• Experience leading organization-wide architecture reviews and technical strategy initiatives.
• Experience driving experimentation frameworks and relevance optimization through A/B testing at scale.

Be Part of a 10X–100X Journey - Help build and scale and be part of a high-growth story.
• Move Rapid, Build Fast - Turn ideas into action, not backlogs.
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📌 Principal Engineer | Head Of Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 Snapmint
📍 Bengaluru