StoreKing
We're hiring · freshers & experienced · Bengaluru + the field

600 millionIndians shopat the corner.Come build for them.

Quick commerce built warehouses for the top 15%. We're building the operating system for the shop that's already there — stores, households, AI agents, one graph. Whatever you build here ships to Bharat in weeks, not years.

◆ Find your chair · pick two
01Why this company, why now

Three things are already true.
The fourth is you.

You've seen the vision, the tech and the street. Here's the short version — and the one piece that's still missing.

02What you'd actually work on

Problems nobody has solved — because nobody had the data.

These aren't toy problems or a feature backlog. Each one is a real constraint between a shopkeeper and a household, and each one now has five years of SKU × pincode × household × date to work with.

03Two doors in · same mission

Just graduated? Ten years in?
There's a chair for both.

◆ For freshers · 0–2 years

Start whereit's real.

No year of shadowing. No internal-tools purgatory. You'll be paired with a senior, given one real problem, and you'll see a shopkeeper use what you built — usually within your first month.

  1. 01
    A real problem in week one

    Not a training project. A thing 17,000 stores will touch.

  2. 02
    A day in the field, every quarter

    Every hire — engineers too — spends days at kirana counters. You'll never build blind.

  3. 03
    A senior who owns your growth

    Weekly 1:1s, code & design reviews, and a clear path from your first PR to owning a module.

  4. 04
    Learn AI on production data

    Most freshers learn on Kaggle. You'll learn on 1.8 billion real basket rows.

◆ For experienced builders · 3+ years

Own a wholepiece of Bharat.

You've built at scale before. Here you'll own something end-to-end — a model, a module, a market — with the data to make it matter and the small team to move fast.

  1. 01
    Ownership, not tickets

    Own pricing for 637K micro-markets. Or the credit book. Or voice in 12 languages.

  2. 02
    A data moat to build on

    Five years compounded, time-locked. The kind of dataset you can't get anywhere else in India.

  3. 03
    Small teams, short loops

    Ship, see it in a Salem kirana, measure, iterate — in days. No six-layer approvals.

  4. 04
    Build the team around you

    Hire and mentor the freshers who'll be your leads in three years.

04Your first 90 days

From your first chai to your first shopkeeper's thank-you.

Day 1

Laptop, team, a real problem.

Meet your senior, get the codebase or the playbook, and pick up one problem that touches live stores.

Week 2

A day at the counter.

Spend a day at a Bright Store in Bengaluru. Watch an order arrive on WhatsApp and leave on a scooter.

Day 30

Your first thing ships.

A screen, a model tweak, a playbook, a fix. It goes live to real shops — and you see the numbers move.

Day 90

You own something.

A module, a metric, a market. You present what you shipped and what you'll take on next.

05How we work

Six things we believe — and hire for.

01

The shopkeeper is the customer.

We don't build around her — we build for her. If it doesn't make her day easier, it doesn't ship.

02

Go to the counter.

Everyone does field days. The best spec is an afternoon behind a kirana counter.

03

Data before opinion.

We have five years of what India actually buys. Use it. Argue with numbers, not titles.

04

Design for Bharat.

Five languages, 2G phones, voice first. If it only works in English on Wi-Fi, it doesn't work.

05

Do the boring, right thing.

Ten years of patient work is why we get to do the ambitious thing now. Craft compounds.

06

Small teams, big ownership.

Few layers, short loops, clear owners. You'll know exactly what's yours.

06Open roles

Find yours. Apply in two minutes.

07How hiring works

Four steps. No trick questions.

We'd rather see how you think about a real problem than how you do on a puzzle. You'll hear back at every step.

Step 1

Apply

A short note on why this problem matters to you, plus your CV, GitHub or portfolio.

2 minutes
Step 2

Intro call

A conversation with the team — about you, the role, and what you'd want to own.

30 minutes
Step 3

A real problem

Work through a problem we're actually facing — together, not alone in a room.

Half a day
Step 4

Meet the founders

Ask anything. Then an offer — with a clear first problem attached.

An hour

Build itwith us.

Ten years of the right, boring work got us here. The graph is compounding, the rail is live, the corners are already there. The next chapter isn't more capex — it's more builders.

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The StoreKing teamFounders, Kingmakers & Swa · Bengaluru