Data Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

● Design, develop, and maintain scalable web applications using .NET Core, .NET

Framework, C#, and related technologies.

● Participate in all phases of the SDLC, including requirements gathering, architecture

design, coding, testing, deployment, and support.

● Build and integrate RESTful APIs, and work with SQL Server, Entity Framework, and

modern front-end technologies such as Angular, React, and JavaScript.

● Conduct thorough code reviews, write unit tests, and ensure adherence to coding

standards and best practices.

● Lead or support .NET Framework to .NET Core migration initiatives, ensuring

minimal disruption and optimal performance.

● Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or

GitLab CI/CD.

● Containerize applications using Docker and deploy/manage them on orchestration

platforms like Kubernetes or GKE.

● Lead and execute database migration projects, particularly transitioning from SQL

Server to PostgreSQL.

● Manage and optimize Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, including configuration, tuning, and

ongoing maintenance.

● Leverage Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services such as GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud

Run, and Dataflow to build and maintain cloud-native solutions.

● Handle schema conversion and data transformation tasks as part of migration and

modernization efforts.

Required Skills & Experience:

● 5+ years of hands-on experience with C#, .NET Core, and .NET Framework.

● Proven experience in application modernization and cloud-native development.

● Strong knowledge of containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools like

Kubernetes/GKE.

● Expertise in implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines.

● Solid understanding of relational databases and experience in SQL Server to

PostgreSQL migrations.

● Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, especially GCP services relevant to application

hosting and data processing.

● Excellent problem-solving, communication,

Who we are :

Stanza Living is India's largest and fastest growing tech-enabled, managed accommodation company that delivers a hospitality-led living experience to migrant students and young working professionals across India. We have a full-stack business model that focuses on design, development and delivery of daily living solutions tailored to the young consumers' lifestyle. From smartly-planned residences, host of amenities and services for hassle-free living to exclusive community engagement programmes - everything is seamlessly integrated through technology to ensure the highest consumer delight.

Today, we are :

• India's largest managed accommodation company with over 75,000+ beds under management across 25+ cities
• Most capitalized player in the managed accommodation space, backed by global marquee investors - Falcon Edge, Equity International, Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, Accel Partners
• Recognized as the Best Real Estate Tech company across the Globe in 2020 by leading analysis agency, Tracxn
• LinkedIn Top Startup to Work for - 2019

Objectives of this role :

- Work in tandem with our engineering team to identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the company

- Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance

- Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to developer teams to build their cloud competencies

- Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards for code quality and thoughtful design

- Manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines

Job Description :

- Excellent understanding of Cloud Platform (AWS)

- Strong knowledge on AWS Services, design, configuration on enterprise systems

- Good knowledge on Kubernetes configuration, Dockers

- Understanding the needs of the business for defining AWS system specifications

- Understand Architecture Requirements and ensure effective support activities

- Evaluation and choosing suitable AWS Service or and suggesting methods for integration

- Overseeing assigned programs and guiding the team members

- Providing assistance when technical problems arise

- Making sure the agreed infrastructure and architecture are implemented

- Addressing the technical concerns, suggestions, and ideas

- Configure Monitoring systems to make sure they meet business goals as well as user requirements

- Excellent knowledge of AWS IaaS Layer

- Ability to lead & implement PS workloads or POCs

- Ensure continual knowledge management

You will:

• Create highly scalable AWS micro-services utilizing cutting edge cloud technologies.
• Design and develop Big Data pipelines handling huge geospatial data.
• Bring clarity to large complex technical challenges.
• Collaborate with Engineering leadership to help drive technical strategy.
• Project scoping, planning and estimation.
• Mentor and coach team members at different levels of experience.
• Participate in peer code reviews and technical meetings.
• Cultivate a culture of engineering excellence.
• Seek, implement and adhere to standards, frameworks and best practices in the industry.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

You have:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or relevant field.
• 5+ years of experience in software design, architecture and development.
• 5+ years of experience using object-oriented languages (Java, Python).
• Strong experience with Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Map Reduce, Kafka, etc.
• Strong experience in working with different AWS technologies.
• Excellent competencies in data structures & algorithms.

Nice to have:

• Proven track record of delivering large scale projects, and an ability to break down large tasks into smaller deliverable chunks
• Experience in developing high throughput low latency backend services
• Affinity to spatial data structures and algorithms.
• Familiarity with Postgres DB, Google Places or Mapbox APIs

• Interaction with the Clients, understanding their requirements, collating required data for preparation and submission of the proposal to Banks/ FI's
• In-depth credit assessment involving Financial, Credit, Legal, Technical, Economic and risk analysis
• Structuring the proposal, preparing Information Memorandum, Teasers, Financial model, cash flow and CMA projections
• Ability to lead meetings and negotiations
• Solution-oriented attitude and resolving queries of all Banks and Clients
• Visiting clients office for understanding and collecting data

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for the cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion: When was the last time you went to a remote gas station while on vacation and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on the cloud?

Your bucket of undertakings:

This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other.

1. Be the first one to experiment on new-age cloud offerings, help define the best practice as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
3. Use your experience in the Google cloud platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud-based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code, and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in the google cloud platform
8. Security, Risk, and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access management, network setup, regulatory compliance, and related areas.

Accomplishment Set 

• Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing interest and credibility 
• Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
• Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality.
• Highly organised and efficient.
• Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.

Experience :

• 4-8 years experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains
• Experience with Linux systems and/OR Windows servers
• Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP
• Hands on experience with AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, GKE, Compute Engine, API Gateway, AppSync and ServiceMesh)
• Experience in one or more scripting language-Python, Bash
• Good understanding of Apache Web Server, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Nagios
• Logging and Monitoring tools (ELK, Stackdriver, CloudWatch)
• DevOps Technologies (AWS DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Maven)
• Knowledge on Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Packer
• Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)

Education :

1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from 12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)
2. To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
3. 3-8 years of experience with hands-on experience in Cloud Computing (AWS/GCP) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
4. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
5. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.

• 3+ years demonstrated experience in the Testing Web & mobile applications.
• 1+ Years of experience in Js based Web application testing. (Like: Angular Js, Vue Js, react js)
• Create and maintain API-based automation test scripts using tools like J meter, SoapUI or Postman
• API Automation using Soap UI/Rest assured / Postman (Mandatory)
• Create and maintain API specific test plans
• Conducting Performance and Load tests on the API's and provide detailed report and analysis on metrics like Breakage point etc.
• Participate in creating and clarifying User Stories, and in planning Sprints.
• Maintaining all the testing artefacts in SharePoint.
• Updating test management tools (JIRA / Bugzilla etc) so that the current status of the project can be known at any time by stakeholders.
• Issue tracking, analysis and reporting.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.