Database Engineer at Next gen BI platform for data driven performance marketers · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 3 - 7 years · ₹30L - ₹45L / yr · Posted 1 Jun 2020
Database Engineer
at Next gen BI platform for data driven performance marketers
This leads to a very interesting and challenging use case in the emerging field of large scale distributed HTAP, which is still not mature enough to provide a solution out of the box that works for our scale and SLAs. So, we are building a solution that can handle the complexity of our use case and scale to several trillions of rows. As a "Database Engineer", you will evolve, architect, build and scale the core data warehouse that sits at the heart of Clarisights enabling large scale distributed, interactive analytics on near realtime data.
What you'll do
- Understanding and gaining expertise in existing data warehouse.
- Use the above knowledge to identify gaps in the current system and formulate strategies around what can be done to fill them
- Avail KPIs around the data warehouse.
- Find solutions to evolve and scale the data warehouse. This will involve a lot of technical research, benchmarking and testing of existing and candidate replacement systems.
- Bulid from scratch all or parts of the data warehouse to improve the KPIs.
- Ensure the SLAs and SLOs of data warehouse, which will require assuming ownership and being oncall for the same.
- Gain deep understanding into Linux and understand concepts that drive performance characteristics like IO scheduling, paging, processing scheduling, CPU instruction pipelining etc.
- Adopt/build tooling and tune the systems to extract maximum performance out of the underlying hardware.
- Build wrappers/microservices for improving visibility, control, adoption and ease of use for the data warehouse.
- Build tooling and automation for monitoring, debugging and deployment of the warehouse.
- Contribute to open source database technologies that are used at or are potential candidates for use.
What you bring
We are looking for engineers with a strong passion for solving challenging engineering problems and a burning desire to learn and grow in a fast growing startup. This is not an easy gig, it will require strong technical chops and an insatiable curiosity to make things better. We need passionate and mature engineers who can do wonders with some mentoring and don't need to be managed.
- Distributed systems: You have a good understanding of general patterns of scaling and fault-tolerance in large scale distributed systems.
- Databases: You have a good understanding of database concepts like query optimization, indexing, transactions, sharding, replication etc.
- Data pipelines: You have a working knowledge of distributed data processing systems.
- Engineer at heart: You thrive on writing great code and have a strong appreciation for modular, testable and maintainable code, and make sure to document it. You have the ability to take new initiatives and questioning status quo.
- Passion & Drive to learn and excel: You believe in our vision. You drive the product for the better, always looking to improve things, and soon become the go-to person to talk to on something that you mastered along. You love dabbling in your own side-projects and learning new skills that are not necessarily part of your normal day job.
- Inquisitiveness: You are curious to know how different modules on our platform work. You are not afraid to venture into unknown territories of code. You ask questions.
- Ownership: You are your own manager. You have the ability to implement engineering tasks on your own without a need for micro-management and take responsibility for any task that has been assigned to you.
- Teamwork: You should be helpful and work well with teams. You’re probably someone who enjoys sharing knowledge with team-mates, asking for help when they need it.
- Open Source Contribution: Bonus.

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- Familiarity with Spring Boot or other Java frameworks.
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About the Role
Wissen Technology is looking for a highly experienced Senior Java Architect to join our engineering team. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance platform services that power mission-critical financial applications.
The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Core Java, platform engineering, REST API development, and extensive experience working within the Financial Services domain.
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- Build, integrate, and support RESTful APIs and web services.
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Performance & Platform Engineering
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Data Management
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BE/BTech/BS or equivalent
7+ years of experience in Java and Spring Boot
Strong fundamentals in data structure, algorithm, and object-oriented programming
4+ years of hands-on experience in designing, developing, and delivering large-scale (distributed) system
architecture with complex software design, high scalability and availability.
Extensive experience with technical leadership, defining visions/solutions and collaborating/driving to see
them to completion.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Experience with any RDBMS and strong SQL knowledge
Comfortable with Unix / Linux command line
Nice to have Skills
Experience with Big Data platforms like Hadoop / Hive / Presto
Experience with ML/AI frameworks like TensorFlow, H20, etc
Used Key Value stores or noSQL databases
Good understanding of docker and container platforms like Mesos and Kubernetes
Security-first architecture approach
Application benchmarking and optimization
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer (Java Backend) to join our team! As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for the end-to-end development and delivery of our products.
Diverse Hiring: SDE 3 (Java Backend) | 5-8 Y | Bangalore WFO | Females Only |
Prefer qualified candidates from Premium Institutes - NIT / IIT / IIIT / REC / BITS / REC with relevant working from Products / Unicorns alike Flipkart, Amazon, CRED, Swiggy, Zomato, Jupiter, Blinkit, OYO, Ola, Uber, Pine Labs, PayTM,
Scope Of Work:
Design, develop, deliver & maintain highly-scalable, cloud-native products, working with product and design teams.
Ability to ship to production in small testable pieces of code, in quick iterations
A good grasp of scalable software development, with a DevOps mindset
Providing people and technical leadership to your engineering teams
Support in developing and managing companies IT infrastructure
Participate in the hiring of world-class engineers and grow the engineering team
Required Skills & Qualifications:
Must have a deep understanding of both development and operations processes, as well as a strong technical background.
5+ years of experience developing software products - Java.
Demonstrable experience in leading software teams by example.
- Strong knowledge of Ruby on rails framework.
- Strong Knowledge of coding languages, like PERL, Python and Ruby.
- Good knowledge of Relation and NoSQL databases. like MySQL, Postgres, NoSQL etc.
- Knowledge of Microservices development and AWS concept will be an added advantage.
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2. Developing and identifying useful architecture patterns within our systems based on
industry know-how and our own operational and development experience.
3. Develop and manage an architecture decisions guidelines framework that will be useful to
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4. Documenting or making this information available to all engineers - new or old
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Internal Developer Community and Tech growth for teams
Create and nurture tech communities so that developers can
● gain more knowledge about the industry practices
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Quality
Monitor and improve the quality of our systems by helping with
1. Bug reduction
2. MTTR reduction
3. Ensuring better engineering practices around testing, tooling, monitoring and resilience.
Cost - Infra and application costs
Ensuring systems are run and maintained with frugality in mind without compromising on business and operational expectations.
Hiring
Help hire and mentor engineers at Simpl.
Partners at Work
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Minimum Qualifications
● At least 8 years of software development experience
● Experience with technically leading projects and architecting high-traffic consumer-facing applications.
● A background in CS or relevant technical experience.
● Familiarity with languages like Go, Java, Ruby and Python.
● Familiarity with the AWS Stack.
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Department: Technology and Research
Reports to: Technical Lead
Context
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We believe in small teams of smart, committed, and diverse individuals coming together and form a breakthrough insight. We are a team of passionate professionals to craft an unbeatable culture and services.
Come and join us!
Role Description
We are looking for a Senior Java Developer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.
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Job Responsibilities:
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- Collaborate closely with the team’s BAs on the efficient transition of BDD’s and Swaggers to the engineers as part of the overall workflow.
- Oversee and manage the scope, timeline, and goals forth delivery of working software
- Oversee and assist in the production of comprehensive documentation
- Oversee and provide support to production cutovers and migrations as required
- Lead the analysis and resolution of technical and application problems
- Supporting the Scrum Master
- Participate in and support backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum related meetings
- Provide clear reporting on the status of the scope, timeline and progress for the delivery of working software
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- Assist in the prioritisation of bugs and defects
- Providing Guidance and Mentoring
- Participate in peer reviews of solution designs and related code
- Provide technical leadership to the teams’ software engineers through coaching and mentorship
- Identify and encourage areas for growth, education and development within the team
General
- Self-Starting Leader capable or working under pressure
- Curious and engaged in Continuous Learning and Professional Development
- Strong DevOps experience
- Java and Spring Developer with +5 years’ experience with the following skills
- Java 1.8+
- Spring
- Microservices with Spring-boot
- Spring cloud config
- Unit tests with Spring-boot
- Docker
- Openshift/Kubernetes
- Basic understanding of API gateways
- OpenAPI (Swagger) specification.
Understanding of basic networking concepts
- Integration into backends via various protocols (SOAP,REST, XML-RPC etc)
- CI/CD (Jenkins, pipelines etc)
The following additional skills would be advantageous:
- Spring reactive
- APIGEE
- Azure DevOps
- Pivotal Kubernetes
- Linux
- Azure Pipelines
What essential skills you need
▪ 8-11 years’ experience in back end Java/J2EE application development.
▪ Expertise in developing internet web applications using Java/J2EE technologies.
▪ Experience of working in a service-oriented architecture and web-based development.
▪ Experience in writing XSD, Wiz-dull including parsers like SAX, DOM.
▪ Experience in different modules of Spring framework like Dependency Injection (IoC), Spring MVC, Spring ORM along with JPA.
▪ Experience in Java Version 7.0+. Good experience with JMS, Spring & Hibernate.
▪ Experience in identifying database solutions for a given problem, preferably MySQL.
▪ Demonstrated ability to analyze business/functional requirements, develop well-structured, maintainable code, delivered on time, with automated tests. We are an XP/Agile development team.
▪ Hands on experience on tools like Log4j, JUnit, Mockito, SVN, Maven, Covertura.
▪ Knowledge in Java queuing system.
▪ Extensive Experience in using MVC (Model View Controller) architecture for developing applications using JSP, JSTL, Java Beans and Servlets.
▪ Hands on experience in using Application/Web servers like JBoss and Tomcat servers. Worked on databases like Oracle/MYSQL/NoSQL/HQL.
▪ Experience with e-commerce, retail, analytics, advertising, or media would be an advantage
• Work with product team to understand product vision and requirements
• Solve complex technical problems and perform the code reviews for junior team members.
• Produce deliverables at a consistently high rate and with consistently excellent quality
• Work with a team of engineering professionals to ensure the highest quality product delivery
As a member of our team, you will be responsible for insuring the successful launch of many product features.
Key responsibilities
• Work in a product based R&D team and collaborate with other teams to integrate.
• Write code that is of high quality and consistent with our coding standards
• Analyze highly complex business requirements, break the requirements to multiple applications; generate technical
specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
• Maintain best practices for development/code changes as needed
• Design and architect software applications
• Conducting code reviews and enforcing the quality standards
• Conducting the daily SCRUM meetings and removing the roadblocks
• Performance testing and tuning for scalability
• Develop quick proof of concepts to set the technical direction for rest of the team.
• Work with Devops and Automation team to develop automation strategy for your application.
Requirements
• Bachelor’s Degree (Masters preferred) in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of software development experience on web applications
• Experience in working in an onsite and offshore development model
• Must have hands-on design and development experience in Cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, Microservices, Java, J2EE, Spring/Boot, Hibernate, JUnit and Integration with front end via rest interfaces.
• Must have Hands-on experience in Multi-threading, Non-blocking IO, Kafka, JMS
• Strong integration background required. Experience with Microservices, REST, JSON and APIs is required
• Experience with as many of the following is highly desirable: Tomcat, Node.js, XML, XSLT, XPath, Web Services, MongoDB, MYSQL, and query performance tuning
• Experience with code management and continuous integration techniques and tools such as Maven, Gradle, Github, JMeter, Jenkins, NPM etc. is highly desirable
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and working knowledge in data structures, algorithms, problem-solving and complexity analysis
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Proven ability to troubleshoot issues in production including root cause analysis
• Self-directed and capable of working effectively in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment
• Experience with Agile software development in a UNIX/Linux environment
• Experience with system architecture/design
Qualifications
• Passionate about technology and technical challenges of all types excite you
• Eagerness to learn and learn fast, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to develop detailed design and deliver a scalable implementation.
• Mentor developers in analysis, design, coding and unit testing techniques
• Motivated self-starter and team player; you inspire others to achieve great thing









