Java Developer

Back End Developer

Job Description:
Location: Pune (Initially Remote due to COVID 19)

We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer to join the team in India and be instrumental in taking our products to the next level. In this role, you will be working in close collaboration with a team of highly empowered, experienced developers who are building a high-performance, highly scaled global platform.

About the Organisation:

- It provides a dynamic, fun workplace filled with passionate individuals. We are at the cutting edge of advertising technology and there is never a dull moment at work.

- We have a truly global footprint, with our headquarters in Singapore and offices in Australia, United States, Germany, United Kingdom, and India.

- You will gain work experience in a global environment. We speak over 20 different languages, from more than 16 different nationalities and over 42% of our staff are multilingual.

You will:

• conceive, build, and operate highly distributed systems deployed around the planet

• employ cutting-edge technologies and techniques in a rapidly evolving domain

• thrive in a progressive, environment which relies on communication and initiative rather than process to deliver at a high velocity

• have a "Product Owner" rather than a "Task Implementer" attitude

 Candidate's Profile:

• Experience building systems involving messaging or event-driven architectures

• Deep technical understanding of Java or Go, and willing to work with both

• Strong handle on concurrency challenges and design solutions

• Strong buyer of Agile / Lean values

• Heavy emphasis on code testing and designing for test-ability

• Maturity and aptitude to operate in a high-freedom/high-responsibility environment

• Strong troubleshooting skills

• Experience with supporting and troubleshooting large systems

• Exposure to infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible

• Exposure to IAAS platforms such as AWS EC2, GCP, etc…

• Experience with Cassandra, Aerospike, or other NoSQL databases

Responsibilities & ownership

• Lead, build, deliver and ensure customer success of next-generation features related to scalability, reliability, robustness, usability, security, and performance of the product.
• Work on distributed systems for data processing with efficient protocols and communication, locking and consensus, schedulers, resource management, low latency access to distributed storage, auto scaling, and self healing.
• Understand and reason about concurrency and parallelization to deliver scalability and performance in a multithreaded and distributed environment.
• Lead the team to solve complex and unknown problems 
• Solve technical problems and customer issues with technical expertise
• Design and deliver architectures that run optimally on public clouds like  GCP, AWS, and Azure
• Mentor other team members for high quality and design 
• Collaborate with Product Management to deliver on customer requirements and innovation
• Collaborate with Support and field teams to ensure that customers are successful with Dremio

Requirements

• B.S./M.S/Equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience
• Fluency in Java/C++ with 3alm+ years of experience developing production-level software
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded and asynchronous programming models, and their use in developing distributed and scalable systems
• 5+ years experience in developing complex and scalable distributed systems and delivering, deploying, and managing microservices successfully
• Hands-on experience  in query processing or optimization, distributed systems, concurrency control, data replication, code generation, networking, and storage systems
• Passion for quality, zero downtime upgrades, availability, resiliency, and uptime of the platform
• Passion for learning and delivering using latest technologies
• Ability to solve ambiguous, unexplored, and cross-team problems effectively
• Hands on experience of working projects on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform 
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes for orchestration and container management in private and public clouds (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) 
• Understanding of distributed file systems such as  S3, ADLS, or HDFS
• Excellent communication skills and affinity for collaboration and teamwork
• Ability to work individually and collaboratively with other team members
• Ability to scope and plan solution for  big problems and mentors others on the same
• Interested and motivated to be part of a fast-moving startup with a fun and accomplished team

Primary Duties

• Build a broad knowledge across various systems and processes via knowledge transfer and capture any missing information on the wiki

• Gather software requirements by talking to various stakeholders and document them

• Implement software solutions after discussing the requirements and taking direction from the Technical lead and talking to other colleagues within and outside the team

• Provide necessary effort and time estimates for tasks to aid scheduling and prioritization

• Provide necessary 3rd line support to the Operations teams including software fixes as needed

• Work on any BAU development activity including on-boarding new data sets and delivering new markets into the system

• Work with external vendors from time to time to gather necessary requirements for new data or changes to existing data specifications

• Maintain pro-active communication with relevant stakeholders and keep them updated on progress

General

• Any other duties commensurate with the post holder’s position and seniority; and
• All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational, statutory and regulatory policies and procedures.

Experience, Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• 4+ years’ experience of programming in Java.
• 4+ years’ experience working with SQL including complex queries, stored procedures, views, database design and solid understanding of database concepts (preferably SQL Server)
• Experience of both Linux and Windows environments, scripting and tools
• Willing to carry out operational data tasks alongside developing new solutions
• Well organised with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple streams of work
• Excellent communication skills

Beneficial

• Experience working with Cloud environments (preferably AWS)
• Experience in handling financial data sets and familiarity with financial instruments (equities, futures, FX)
• Experience working with data pipelines and building ETL solutions
• Experience working with tools like Flink, Kafka and Tableau

Educational & Professional Qualifications

• Educated to degree (or equivalent) level or higher.
• A degree with mathematical and computing content (e.g. Computer Science, Maths, Physics)