Principal Engineer

Objectives of this role

Work on building the back-end applications that power web and mobile applications.

Developing and implementing complex Node.js applications to the cloud infrastructure.

Designing and maintaining scalable and efficient APIs and integrating third-party APIs into Node.js applications.

Your tasks

• Write an efficient, transparent and well-documented code that meets industry regulations and standards.
• Work collaboratively with designers, stakeholders and product owners to define, design and implement new features in existing software solutions.
• Participate in performance optimisation and tuning of existing Node.js applications by reviewing software code and providing constructive feedback for improvement.
• Ensure proper adherence to privacy and security standards.
• Stay updated with the emerging technologies and trends in Node.js development.

Required skills and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
• Demonstrable experience in web application development with expertise in Node.js.
• Proficiency with front-end technologies like CSS, HTML and JavaScript.
• Knowledge of database technologies and agile development methodologies.
• Experience working with databases, such as MySQL or MongoDB.
• Familiarity with web development frameworks, such as Express.js.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and DevOps principles.
• Good knowledge of authentication and authorization (JWT , cookies etc) 
• Excellent problem-solving and management skills.

Preferred skills and qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience in Node.js.
• Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure, such as AWS.
• Familiarity with front-end development frameworks, such as React.js or AngularJS.
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Required Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in the Development of JAVA technology.
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands-on experience in Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem-solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Have you streamed a program on Disney+, watched your favorite binge-worthy series on Peacock or cheered your favorite team on during the World Cup from one of the 20 top streaming platforms around the globe? If the answer is yes, you’ve already benefitted from Conviva technology, helping the world’s leading streaming publishers deliver exceptional streaming experiences and grow their businesses. 

Conviva is the only global streaming analytics platform for big data that collects, standardizes, and puts trillions of cross-screen, streaming data points in context, in real time. The Conviva platform provides comprehensive, continuous, census-level measurement through real-time, server side sessionization at unprecedented scale. If this sounds important, it is! We measure a global footprint of more than 500 million unique viewers in 180 countries watching 220 billion streams per year across 3 billion applications streaming on devices. With Conviva, customers get a unique level of actionability and scale from continuous streaming measurement insights and benchmarking across every stream, every screen, every second.

As Conviva is expanding, we are building products providing deep insights into end user experience for our customers.

Platform and TLB Team

The vision for the TLB team is to build data processing software that works on terabytes of streaming data in real time. Engineer the next-gen Spark-like system for in-memory computation of large time-series dataset’s – both Spark-like backend infra and library based programming model. Build horizontally and vertically scalable system that analyses trillions of events per day within sub second latencies. Utilize the latest and greatest of big data technologies to build solutions for use-cases across multiple verticals. Lead technology innovation and advancement that will have big business impact for years to come. Be part of a worldwide team building software using the latest technologies and the best of software development tools and processes.

What You’ll Do

This is an individual contributor position. Expectations will be on the below lines:

• Design, build and maintain the stream processing, and time-series analysis system which is at the heart of Conviva's products
• Responsible for the architecture of the Conviva platform
• Build features, enhancements, new services, and bug fixing in Scala and Java on a Jenkins-based pipeline to be deployed as Docker containers on Kubernetes
• Own the entire lifecycle of your microservice including early specs, design, technology choice, development, unit-testing, integration-testing, documentation, deployment, troubleshooting, enhancements etc.
• Lead a team to develop a feature or parts of the product
• Adhere to the Agile model of software development to plan, estimate, and ship per business priority

What you need to succeed

• 9+ years of work experience in software development of data processing products.
• Engineering degree in software or equivalent from a premier institute.
• Excellent knowledge of fundamentals of Computer Science like algorithms and data structures. Hands-on with functional programming and know-how of its concepts
• Excellent programming and debugging skills on the JVM. Proficient in writing code in Scala/Java/Rust/Haskell/Erlang that is reliable, maintainable, secure, and performant
• Experience with big data technologies like Spark, Flink, Kafka, Druid, HDFS, etc.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts and scalability challenges including multi-threading, concurrency, sharding, partitioning, etc.
• Experience/knowledge of Akka/Lagom framework and/or stream processing technologies like RxJava or Project Reactor will be a big plus. Knowledge of design patterns like event-streaming, CQRS and DDD to build large microservice architectures will be a big plus
• Excellent communication skills. Willingness to work under pressure. Hunger to learn and succeed. Comfortable with ambiguity. Comfortable with complexity

Underpinning the Conviva platform is a rich history of innovation. More than 60 patents represent award-winning technologies and standards, including first-of-its kind-innovations like time-state analytics and AI-automated data modeling, that surfaces actionable insights. By understanding real-world human experiences and having the ability to act within seconds of observation, our customers can solve business-critical issues and focus on growing their businesses ahead of the competition. Examples of the brands Conviva has helped fuel streaming growth for include DAZN, Disney+, HBO, Hulu, NBCUniversal, Paramount+, Peacock, Sky, Sling TV, Univision, and Warner Bros Discovery.  

Privately held, Conviva is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with offices and people around the globe. For more information, visit us at www.conviva.com. Join us to help extend our leadership position in big data streaming analytics to new audiences and markets! 

We are looking for an experienced engineer with superb technical skills. You will primarily be responsible for architecting and building large scale data pipelines that delivers AI and Analytical solutions to our customers. The right candidate will enthusiastically take ownership in developing and managing a continuously improving, robust, scalable software solutions. The successful candidate will be curious, creative, ambitious, self motivated, flexible, and have a bias towards taking action. As part of the early engineering team, you will have a chance to make a measurable impact in future of Thinkdeeply as well as having a significant amount of responsibility.

Although your primary responsibilities will be around back-end work, we prize individuals who are willing to step in and contribute to other areas including automation, tooling, and management applications. Experience with or desire to learn Machine Learning a plus.

Experience

12+ Years

Location

Hyderabad

Skills

Bachelors/Masters/Phd in CS or equivalent industry experience

10+ years of industry experience in java related frameworks such as Spring and/or Typesafe

Experience with scripting languages. Python experience highly desirable. 5+ Industry experience in python

Experience with popular modern web frameworks such as Spring boot, Play framework, or Django

Demonstrated expertise of building and shipping cloud native applications

Experience in administering (including setting up, managing, monitoring) data processing pipelines (both streaming and batch) using frameworks such as Kafka, ELK Stack, Fluentd

Experience in API development using Swagger

Strong expertise with containerization technologies including kubernetes, docker-compose

Experience with cloud platform services such as AWS, Azure or GCP.

Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Familiarity with continuous integration, Jenkins

Responsibilities

Architect, Design and Implement Large scale data processing pipelines

Design and Implement APIs

Assist in dev ops operations

Identify performance bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

Help maintain code quality, organization, and documentation

Communicate with stakeholders regarding various aspects of solution.

Mentor team members on best practices

At Kyt, we are building an online-first, global academy focused on extracurricular learning for kids. Our mission is to ensure that every kid around the world gets access to holistic education while being able to learn using content, tools and technologies that teaches them concepts - some even better than offline. Bringing in technology as a differentiator to teach kids concepts and help them practice is key to our product development path.

• Experience of 6+ years across product based companies 

• Should have worked on building B2C products. Having experience in building edtech products would be a major plus.
• Should be an  avid programmer with great problem solving skills.
• Should have a great grasp over NodeJs/Typescript/ AWS microservices
• Should  have experience in building scalable server-side systems. Should have significant experience in cloud infrastructure and designing databases.
• Should have knowledge of software architecture, system thinking and design patterns.

• Sound knowledge of Core Java, JSP, Servlets & MVC, Spring
• Good knowledge of Java Script, Ajax
• Good knowledge of My SQL database server
• Experience in working with IDE like Eclipse or Netbeans
• Knowledge of Spring would be an advantage
• Great problem-solving attitude
• Strong OOP & OOAD fundamentals
• Knowledge of Java EE Design pattern
• Technical hands on Spring, Spring Security, Hibernate, JPA, Struts, OO JS, XML, Webservices (Restful, JAX-WS).
• Nice to have knowledge of Liferay, Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Restful services, jQuery, YUI, EstJS (Sencha), frameworks.

• Understand the BRS / SRS document
• Coordinate with Team lead/DBA to understand the System design and Database design
• Development and Unit Testing
• Bug fixing and Change Request implementation