Manager - Offline Marketing

Job Description

We are looking for a passionate Search Specialist Backend Engineer to join our team. This role will focus on improving and optimizing our search capabilities to enhance user experience, scalability, and relevancy.

Location - Bangalore

Designation - Senior Software engineer - Search Specialist

Responsibilities:

● Design, develop, and maintain the search application, ensuring performance, and scalability.

● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement search features and improvements.

● Ensure search results are relevant by employing techniques like ranking, personalization, and recommendation.

● Work on complex problems related to search algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.

● Implement logging, metrics, and monitoring for search services.

● Optimize search by tuning the underlying algorithms, experimenting with new techniques, and leveraging tools like Elasticsearch, Solr, etc.

● Maintain and improve existing search functionalities while ensuring backward compatibility.

● Stay updated with the latest advancements in search technology and industry best practices.

Basic Qualifications:

● Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

● Experience with search engines like Elasticsearch, Solr, or similar technologies.

● Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.

● Proficiency in Python and Django.

● Familiarity with RESTful APIs and backend services.

● Preferred Qualifications:

● Experience with natural language processing (NLP) or machine learning as applied to search.

● Knowledge of various search relevance techniques and ranking algorithms.

● Experience in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure). ● Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

● Strong analytical and debugging skills. Personal Attributes:

● Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team setting.

● A keen interest in improving user experience through search.

● Proactive, self-motivated, and able to work in a fast-paced environment

Skills:

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles
• Experience with popular React.js workflows (Redux)
• Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Knowledge of isomorphic React is a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git, SVN, and Mercurial)

• Provide strategic consulting on people and organization development strategies in support of the business objectives.
• Be an expert on people challenges - especially talent, performance and change
• Partner with India HR lead for all Merger and Acquisition activities (policies, process, payroll, compensation and benefits harmonization, compliance, entity and benefit integration, site consolidation, employee integration and culture alignment)
• Providing ideas and challenges to management teams and acting as a catalyst for change through process design and approaches that results in transformation.
• Evaluate and analyze issues, patterns, and trends to provide proactive insights for HR solutions.
• Drive compensation programs locally by collaborating with corporate compensation team
• Collaborating with the corporate HRBP on BU related activities
• Partner and lead projects which has business impacts.
• Investigate and resolve complex employee relations issues and address grievances.
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• High degree of integrity, business acumen and resilience.
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous, fast paced and rapidly changing environment.
• Self-driven, ability to set high personal goals and work independently
• Ability to organize, multi-task, prioritize tasks and deliver quick results.

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• 2+ Years of hands-on experience troubleshooting/setting up of the Linux environment, who can write shell scripts for any given requirement.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring AWS or GCP services from SCRATCH and maintaining them.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring Kubernetes & EKS and ensuring high availability of container orchestration.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins & Gitlab.
• Experience configuring/maintaining one monitoring tool.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Candidates with certifications - AWS, GCP, CKA, etc will be preferred
• Hands-on experience with databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, RDS).

Experience:

• Min 3 years of experience as SRE automation engineer building, running, and maintaining production sites. Not looking for candidates who have experience only as L1/L2.

Location:

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate every month.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

• Functional Testing (Performance, Security, etc)
• Nonfunctional Testing
• Systems Integration testing
• Regression Testing
• Cross-device/platform testing
• Upgrade / Cross version testing

Required Qualifications –

• Computer Science or Engineering degree or equivalent from recognized institute/s.

Desired Skills –

• Practical knowledge of software development lifecycles, including specification, documentation, and quality assurance
• About 2 – 4 years of experience in software design, planning, and development
• Knowledge of Java and strong object-oriented development
• Experience in hands-on Selenium automation test case development
• Familiarity with Android and iOS mobile application development is preferred
• Knowledge of Ant, JUnit, and Appium Mobile Application Automation framework is strongly preferred
• Familiarity with software development tools such as Jenkins, bitbucket, etc
• Great attention to detail
• Work well in a tightly integrated development team
• Good communication & presentation skills

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture,
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Author data services using a variety of programming languages
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and Azure ‘big data’ technologies.
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics.
• Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
• Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centres and Azure regions.
• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.
• Work in an Agile environment with Scrum teams.
• Ensure data quality and help in achieving data governance.

• 2+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role
• Undergraduate degree required (Graduate degree preferred) in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field.
• Experience using the following software/tools:
• Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools
• Experience with Azure cloud services: ADLS, ADF, ADLA, AAS
• Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases
• Understanding of ELT and ETL patterns and when to use each. Understanding of data models and transforming data into the models
• Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures, and data sets
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment

• Responsible for the successful technical delivery of code and design documents
• Responsible to evaluate and review design frameworks and methodologies.
• Responsible for organizing, documenting, and review work items scope from a technical point of view.
• Responsible for scoping, designing, development, reviews, and complete delivery from the technical end.
• Review and validate estimates for complex projects to ensure correct sizing of work.
• Participates in POCs, validates the complex technical solution, performs estimates and collateral consolidation.
• Lead and coach a team of junior developers

Requirement

• Strong experience in the development of microservices-based applications using JEE technologies Spring Boot, and Spring MVC, JPA, and Hibernate.
• Experience in handling integration with multiple legacy systems by creating/consuming services in SOAP/REST/MQ, Apache Camel integration framework.
• Strong experience in developing web applications using single-page architecture and a responsive design using Angular, Bootstrap, and building hybrid mobile applications
• Understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• Containerizing applications using Docker/Kubernetes
• Setting up CI/CD pipelines using GIT, Jenkins, SonarQube is a plus
• Setting up applications for log monitoring using ELK stack and performance monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana is a plus
• Ensure quality and timeliness of implementation of activities related to design, build and implementation of work product; participate in activities related to requirements elicitation, validation of architecture, creation, and review of design; provide pseudo code to the team; assign and review tasks for work product implementation with the objective of ensuring the highest levels of service offerings in own technology domain
• Performs high and low-level design provides pseudo-codes, implements the prototype, and does design reviews in order to deliver design documents as per customer requirements
• Provides inputs for an overall implementation plan, lead deployment of applications, infrastructure, and post-production support activities
• Interface with customer for issue resolution, provide status updates, Build customer confidence in team`s ability to deliver in order to support high customer satisfaction
• Understand client-side business requirements and provide value-led solutions. Should have strong and clear verbal and written communication skills including addressing escalations, presenting status in management meetings. Excellent client interfacing skills, mentoring skills
• Experienced in developing microservices/APIs using REST principles
• Experienced in JEE technologies, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Swagger
• Experienced in using Queues (ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ, Kafka) and integration frameworks like Apache Camel
• Experienced in Front End skills include Angular, CSS, SAAS, Node, NPM, Bootstrap
• Experience with one of the application servers like Tomcat, JBoss EAP, IBM WebSphere
• Experience with relational databases like Postgres, Oracle DB2, and NoSQL databases like Elastic Search, MongoDB, Neo4J
• Experience in containerizing applications using Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines using GIT, Jenkins, SonarQube is a plus
• Experience in setting up applications for log monitoring using ELK stack and performance monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana is a plus