Databricks Architect

My Client's India is its largest studio outside USA with 400+ people and growing rapidly. It manages some of the biggest global games in the Casual Gaming, Action Strategy, Match-3, Slots, and Invest Express genres. The game teams are responsible for the long term-vision of the game, its entire Game Design & Tuning, Product Roadmap, Features, Content & Creative decisions, Art work (2D, 3D, Animation), Development, QA/Testing, Analytics & Performance Tracking, User Acquisition & Live Operations.

The India team is full of passionate gamers, who love to play, build great products, and have fun doing it. Studio I expect continued growth and is looking for strong leaders to expand the studio into this next growth phase.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the software design of large scale applications and features & enhancements which reaches millions of players. You should be passionate about players, performance, scalability and holds a very high bar for quality of the game.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Owns technical roadmap, design and review for end-to-end games, ensure design quality and integrity
• Modernizing the tech stack
• Bring tech innovations in the game which will help in growth of the games
• Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/add enhancements
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of various system resources
• Lead and Mentor junior engineers and drive a culture of technical perfection.
• Drive creative and innovative solutions to complex problems, exemplifying good technical discernment.
• Drive improvements and new approaches to address potential systemic pain points and technical debt, anticipate and avoid problems.
• Take a hands-on approach in the development of prototypes, independently and with others, to establish design decisions and/or technical feasibility.

Required Skills

• Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• A minimum of 7 years of professional experience in software development, mobile, desktop or web application development with hands on coding experience covering full stack
• Experience coding in C#, C++, Python, Javascript and SQL
• Working knowledge of mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• A proven foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, OOPS and software design
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Desired Skills

• Experience with mobile development – Android/iOS/Native OR on game engines such as Cocos-2D, Unity or other.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELBs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, terraform etc)
• Experience with setting up server monitoring, alerting and server provisioning
• Familiarity with micro service architecture, containers and related technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Experience with development tools & integrated build systems: XCode, IntelliJ, Git/Jenkins
• Experience of driving activities, review process to ensure software and product quality.
• Willing to pick up any languages, technologies, or methodologies necessary to smite a challenge—and if a conventional solution does not exist, then innovate as necessary.

What we offer you:

• Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
• Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme and  RSUs
• Full medical, accident as well as life insurance benefits
• Catered breakfast, lunch and evening snacks
• Child care facilities for women employees and discounted facilities for male employees
• Well stocked pantry
• Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Active Employee Resource Groups – Women 
• Frequent employee events
• Additional leave options for most employees
• Flexible working hours on many teams
• Casual dress every single day
• Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players!

Roles & Responsibilities

● Generating a pool of prospects by identifying the need for up-skilling depending on the student’s area of interest.

● Helping prospective students with detailed information about the programs offered through phone & creating a strong pipeline.

● Ensure meet daily deliverables & achieve weekly/monthly enrolment target.

• Help them understand the importance of navigating a career.

● Must be a good listener and be trained in matching candidate needs to a future career. 

- Conducting a demo session with the parents and kids to explain the programs.

- Interacting with different departments to close the sales.

- Guiding the students to a brighter career path (over a video call)

- Build a repo with the customer.

- You will play a key strategic and consultative role in developing, delivering and maintaining digital ad tech products

- Work as part of the engineering and product teams to develop complex platforms and systems that are scalable to millions of users - Result-oriented full-stack development for world-class products with high degree of performance and quality

- Developers in our teams are also adept at formulating product strategies, research best practices, bring in expertise and mentor younger talent and drive the organization’s goals higher with a self-starter attitude

- Strong sense of commitment, problem-solving, professional ethics and willingness to learn new things are a standard requirement for all our openings

As a Graphic Designer, you’ll be responsible for making our ideas look good. We are particularly looking for boundary pushers and smart branding skills. You must be able to think creatively and critically, and have impeccable type sensibilities. You should also have the ability to design for different audiences and different brand styles across digital and print media. You must be willing to explore creative solutions that are visually inspiring and conceptually sound.

Competencies:

• Understanding of marketing, production, website design, corporate identity, advertisements, and multimedia design.
• Ability to understand briefs and translate concepts into creative, innovative visuals, effectively overseeing projects from start to end including on-time delivery.
• Eagerness to improve, keep learning, update skills and innovate as per business requirement and market.

Skills:

• Proficient to expert level experience in Adobe Suite focusing on Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. Knowledge of Adobe After Effects and Adobe XD is a plus.
• Intermediate/high proficiency in design principles like typography, composition, scale, color theory, and an advanced knowledge of how those principles work together
• Digital platform design experience and understanding of cross-platform design guidelines.

Experience:

• Strong creative vision and visual arts skills with an established portfolio of B2B print and digital marketing collateral including social media creatives, brochures, reports, sales presentations, pitch decks, etc. preferably in an agency environment.
• Working knowledge of website UI design and motion graphics is a plus. 

Location and Type: 

Remote, Full-time

Evaluation:

Portfolios will be checked for knowledge on design aesthetics, typography, and composition. Please share only samples of work where the ideas and execution are done by you alone. Shortlisting will be followed by a video interview.