Flipkart

What we are looking for
Engineering at Flipkart is an interesting opportunity to solve complex problems. The scope of work will include advanced information-retrieval algorithms, massive scalability and large-scale applications that enrich user experience and predictive analytics in the area of Supply Chain Management. The ideal candidate will have over 9 years of relevant industry experience and a strong technology acumen coupled with excellent people management skills.

Educational Qualification

BE/B.Tech (or an equivalent degree) in Computer Science.

What you will be doing

• Provide technical leadership to major projects, build and guide an engineering team of 10-15 top notch engineers • Chalk-out and implement the vision, technology roadmap and business goals • Ensure that the team optimizes codes, while contributing to business goals and product strategies • Create clear career paths for team members and ensure their growth by mentoring them • Evaluate performances regularly and share and seek feedback • Operate with scale and speed, amidst flux in the fast-paced environment • Work closely with Engineering Leaders, Managers; Product Management, Business Development and Operation teams, and enable them by providing scalable and high quality technology solutions at a rapid pace • Set up best practices for development and overlook its adoption • Architect and design technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions • Work with designers, business analysts, and product managers to estimate and plan projects in an agile environment • Drive exceptional performance and collaborate with other teams on unclear interfaces amidst the rapidly evolving organizational activities.

What you should have

• Excellent leadership skills to manage and mentor teams • A deep understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set-up • Expertise in highly transactional, large relational and complex systems • Strong object oriented design skills, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive modules and class-level interfaces • Superior management skills to manage multi-engineer projects and experience in delivering high quality projects on time • Strong technical competence with a track record of individual technical accomplishments

Architects at Flipkart are responsible for driving Technology & Good Practices in Engineering in their
respective teams. We are a rapidly growing & constantly improving organization. We seek very high
levels of ownership in all individuals, especially roles like this – ownership of systems in your team and
their impact on the entire Flipkart eco-system. Going beyond your role & contributing to make the
organization & business better is an expectation. 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.
• Setting up best practices to help the team achieve the above and constantly thinking about improving
the technology use are your responsibilities. Driving the adoption of these best practices around coding,
design, quality, performance in your team.
• Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself
on the impact you are able to create.
• Implementation of long term technology vision for your team.
• Responsible for the architecture of your product; ensuring it is aligned to the requirements and the
charter.
• Active participant in technology forums & represent Flipkart in external forums.
• Creating architectures & designs for new solutions around existing and new problem spaces at
Flipkart.
• Drive technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them.

You’re Part: Communication Drive discussions to create/improve product, process and technology Coding Thinking tools, creating tools Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scope Rapid proto-typing Robust and scalable web-based applications Design Do high level design with guidance; Functional modelling, break-down of a module Thinking platforms & reuse Architecture Do incremental changes to architecture: impact analysis of the same Do performance tuning and improvements in large scale distributed systems Org Development Mentor young minds and foster team spirit You’re Array (Nice to Haves): The farsightedness it takes to look at business problems critically from more than one perspective. The capability to craft object-oriented models and design data structures, implement business logic and data models with suitable class design. Ability to break-down larger/fuzzier problems into smaller ones in the scope of the product Sound soft skills to gel with colleagues from other teams in order to harness the development process. An understanding of the industry’s coding standards and an ability to create appropriate technical documentation. You (Must Haves): Extensive and expert programming experience in any one programming language (strong OO skills preferred). Deep experience in at least one Object Oriented programming language (Java/C/C++, Ruby, Clojure, Scala,and SQL) A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design. Have a penchant for solving complex and interesting problems Worked in startup like environment with high levels of ownership and commitment BTech, MTech, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent). Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert design into code fluently Good skills to write unit & integration tests with reasonable coverage of code & interfaces - TDD is a plus Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with huge amount of data. Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming Above exposure in the art of writing codes and solving problems for large scale. You’re Cheers! Apart from all the general benefits of best in industry compensation, equity, healthcare etc , Flipkart prides in calling out the big hand for you to be Great Work, Great People and Great environment. We call ourselves an incubator for engineers where you get all the optimal conditions to do and experience your best.