Job Description

Job Description

• Be the thinker and problem solver at large scale for the projects involved.
• Building large platform pieces to enable external RESTful web services for the scale of 100 Million+ API transactions everyday.
• Actively participate in development along with team members for as much as 75% of their time, creating modules & systems that can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.
• Participating in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
• Being responsible for Scaling, Performance & Quality for the team.
• Handle massive amounts of data being generated everyday and building relevant analytics, insights and monitoring wherever needed.
• Incorporate long term thinking at low level design and high level design into products and develop the similar culture at team level.
• Implementation of long term technology vision for the company.
• Keep yourself updated with the relevant latest industry tech developments and advancements. Drive technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them.
• Not restricting yourself with only above responsibilities and going beyond your role & contributing to make the organization & business better

Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering experience and 3+ years of scalable product development cycles with either large data handling or large transaction processing
• Hands on experience over scalable RESTful web services and massive data sets.
• Solid coding skills with ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercises & improve coding standards across large code bases preferably in Java and Python.
• Very Strong System design and OO skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction.
• Quick & Excellent Problem Solving skills for complex & large scale problems.

Technical Breadth

• Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies.
• Good knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a variety of multi-tier architectures.
• Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a variety of solutions.
• Good understanding & experience of high performance web scale & real-time response systems.
• Experience & exposure to a variety of large scale persistent systems including large databases.
• Exposure to complete product development cycles - From inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures - the Architects should have seen it all.
• Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments - where boundaries aren't clearly defined.
• B Tech or higher in Computer Science or equivalent required.

Nice To Haves

• Good sense of system characterisation and identification of technical requirements.
• Good learn-ability and adopt technologies that help build large scale, performant, reliable and sustainable systems.
• Architectural & Design Choices, Deep knowledge on one or more tech stacks, identify alternative tech choices and trade-offs.
• Strong problem Solving skills, Identify feasible alternatives and freeze on the optimal choice of data structures and advanced algorithms.
• Ability to work in fuzzy environments and complex environments.
• Able to take high ownership of complex system components and drive it to the next level.
• Good exposure both with tech breadth and tech depth.