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Principal Engineer - Backend
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Principal Engineer - Backend
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Principal Engineer - Backend

at India’s largest online food and grocery store

Agency job
7 - 15 yrs
₹25L - ₹60L / yr
Bengaluru (Bangalore)
Skills
Product development
Product Management
skill iconJava
J2EE
skill iconSpring Boot
Hibernate (Java)
skill iconPython
skill iconGo Programming (Golang)
Vertx.io
Technical Architecture
Engineering Management

Primary Responsibilities:

 

  • Principal Engineers  are responsible for driving Technology and Engineering Best Practices in their respective teams.
  • They should demonstrate a high level of ownership and accountability for their product and software systems.
  • They are expected to go above and beyond their role by contributing in tools, processes and practices which bring operational efficiency and are aligned with business goals.
  • They are expected to actively participate in development along with team members and create systems and modules which represent a working model of engineering best practices.
  • They are expected to participate in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
  • They are responsible for the Engineering metrics/health of their systems including strong alerting and monitoring mechanisms.
  • They are expected to lead the adoption of best practices around coding, designing, performance of systems in a team.

 

Experience or Skills Required:

 

  • B.Tech or Advanced degree in Computer Science with 6-12 years of industry experience in product based companies.
  • Proficiency with Basic libraries for machine learning such as scikit-learn and pandas
  • Experience in building solutions based on Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, K Nearest neighbor, SVM, Random Forest, Decision Trees.
  • Strong experience with at least one of programming languages: Python, Java, Vertx, Golang
  • Strong experience in building Server side reusable components based on Microservices or Distributed Architecture.
  • Solid coding skills with ability to lead teams in identifying clearing tech debts for large scale code base.
  • Good understanding & experience in improving performance of scalable and real time responsive applications.
  • Excellent Problem Solving skills and an aptitude to approach problems from first principles and build solutions for those.
  • Must have excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal, leadership, and problem solving skills.
  • Must be able to work independently and enjoy working at a fast paced start-up environment
  • Excellent Mentoring skills. Be the technical mentor to your team.
  • Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments where boundaries are not clearly defined.
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