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.
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- BS in CS or EE or equivalent
- Experience working on large scale systems in rapid growth environments
- Experience with public cloud offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Solid programming skills; preferred experience in Java, and/or Python
- Experience with modern web frameworks, advanced algorithms/data intelligence, public
- cloud platforms and streaming data pipelines
- Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, continuous integration, and delivery
- 5+ years’ experience preferred
SaaS (Mandatory)and Java, Spring boot, Azure is good go
Skills Required:
· Strong application development and design experience in highly Scalable enterprise JAVA/J2EE systems.
· Strong experience in complex application design, ability to provide solutions, design Concepts, design patterns.
· Strong understanding of Java best practices, system scalability, and performance tuning.
· Expertise in Spring (MVC, CORE, Boot, JDBC).
· Strong Knowledge of Restful services, XML, JSON are required.
· Having knowledge in Hadoop/Bigdata/ETL/Reporting systems is a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills, both verbal and written •
• 7+ years of experience in Java/Node.js, REST/Graph QL, Redis on AWS Fargate • Design and develop high quality back-end code (Node.js/Go/JAVA) • Excellent in one or more Go, Java, Node.js skills • In-depth knowledge of Restful / GraphQL API, JSON.
• Experience with CI/CD and tools like Git, Bitbucket and Jenkins.
• Solid understanding of relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL) and experience in NoSQL (e.g., Graph DB, MongoDB, DynamoDB).
• Developing new software applications, features, and distributed services that support a high-scale web application
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment; continuous deployment, test-driven development, agile methodologies
• Stay current with the latest back-end technologies and best practices and share your findings with the team
• Help evolve our backend stack and mentor our other developers when it comes to patterns and best practices
• Work as part of an agile team across a variety of application domains
• Write structured, tested, readable and maintainable code • Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distributed knowledge
• Ability to contribute to each step of the product development process (ideation, implementation, and release)
• Experience with performance tuning, profiling, and debugging applications
You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions. You will work closely with the CTO to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision. You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge highly distributed systems at the back-end, and would need to work withfront-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform. You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines. You would lead technology strategy through analysis of market trends and product requirements. You would help set coding guidelines and help bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.
Requirements:
● B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
● 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years
in an architectural role.
● Completely hands on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge
plus.
● Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate technology value adds and educate + drive
adoption within the extended technology team
● Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s),
platforms and core technologies
● Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue correct engineering
process in adverse conditions. Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond
ownership
● Work with engineering leadership to setup and manage processes.
● Track record of thought leadership and out of the box thinking in the technology arena.
● Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environment
● A Java/Spring/Akka, Javascript or Golang rockstar.
● Deep and hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS,
message brokers such as Kafka/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra,
Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as
Docker and Kubernetes etc.
● Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right
trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
● Building quick PoCs and full-fledged solutions with various AWS managed services would
be a big plus.
Perks
- Best hardware and software to help you get the job done in the best way possible
- Remote office allowance to support you regardless of where you work
- Learning and development allowance to help you grow your career
- Flexible leave policy to give you more control over your time.
- Health insurance for your family and you to keep you well.
Required experience and skills
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Bonus: Masters degree.9+ years of total full-time work experience, preferably shipping SaaS applications.
- Startup experience strongly desired.
- Played a pivotal role in scaling a company and led teams in an agile environment where iteration has led to perfection.
- Proven track record of on time project deliveries with balanced calls on technical designs and tech debt.
- Expert proficiency in:
- 1. Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Mysql, Linux, Git, AWS, CI/CD, NewRelic.
- 2. broad range of internet technologies and applications.
- 3. interacting, building, and improving the performance of systems end-to-end.
- 4. architecting/designing complex systems
- Strong collaborator and thought partner to Product team.Driven by outcomes more than output.
- Have led projects with small, dynamic, and fast-paced teams (3-5 engineers), with great flexility and adaptability on large projects, delegating working effectively.
- Viewed by the team as their evangelist, role model and bar raiser.
- Past teams and co-workers attest to your prowess & agility in building great products, and driving sound technical decision making.Mentored engineers within and outside own team.
- High on EQ, humility, curiosity and self drive.
Responsibilities
We use a rubric / career ladder as a framework to help our engineers grow in their careers. Please refer to the SDE IV section in the rubric (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z_51E1mZ3qf0MBuAyfHjKE1HN6h_yghAx2WMaB1z-Ms/edit?usp=sharing">click to view) to understand our expectations on your role and responsibilities.
Your responsibilities include:
- Leading completion and delivery of multiple concurrent projects with clear deliverable timelines and milestones
- Providing key input and guidance in helping to solve our most difficult and challenging issues, and providing recommendations for preventing or mitigating the effects of the issues in the future
- Identifying inconsistencies caused by lack of best practices and patterns, and proactively collaborate with the team to gather input to define and rollout new best practices
- Mentoring other engineers on increasing their impact both within and outside of their team, including identifying opportunities for them to do so
- Participate in shaping longer term technical and architectural goals in consideration of product/company strategy, organizational growth, scalability, security, and other factors
About Tophatter
- Strong Java software development experience – with a focus on Java 8 & 9
- Experience with NoSql databases – ideally with MongoDB
- Experience implementing REST apis – ideally with JAX-RS
- Experience with Reactive Programming – ideally with RxJava
- Experience implementing unit tests
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing applications in fintech or established financial institutions
- Experience with microservice architectures
- Experience developing systems that can scale to large amounts of data
- Experience working in Agile Scrum
- Experience working on a globally distributed team