Principal Software Engineer / Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead simultaneous development for multiple business verticals.
• Design & develop highly scalable, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Ensure that exceptional standards are maintained in all aspects of engineering.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to learn and share best practices.
• Take ownership of technical performance metrics and strive actively to improve them.
• Mentors junior members of the team and contributes to code reviews.

Requirements:

• A passion to solve tough engineering/data challenges.
• Be well versed with cloud computing platforms AWS/GCP
• Experience with SQL technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience working with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• Excellent Programming skills in Python/Java/GoLang
• Big Data streaming services (Kinesis, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Distributed cache systems(Redis, Memcache)
• Advanced data solutions(BigQuery, RedShift, DynamoDB, Cassandra)
• Automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure orchestration(Docker/Kubernetes/Nginx)
• Cloud-native tech like Lambda, ASG, CDN, ELB, SNS/SQS, S3 Route53 SES

• Interest in our tech stack (Java or Scala, SQL Databases, NoSQL, Microservices, and AWS)
• Strong computer science fundamentals with data structures, algorithms, various programming languages, distributed systems, etc. 
• Understanding of engineering best practices—you constantly seek to improve engineering standards, tooling and processes
• Ability to write “good code” - easily understandable, secure and testable! 
• Comfortable helping drive technical decisions within our Engineering team
• Experience building applications at scale

We are looking for people that take quality as a point of pride. You will be a key member of the engineering staff working on our innovative FinTech product that simplifies the domain of finance management.

At Zeni.ai, we provide an AI-powered finance team with a real-time dashboard to manage all the finance functions for startups on one platform - bookkeeping, yearly taxes, bill pay & invoicing, financial projections & budgeting, employee reimbursements and more.  We are headquartered at Palo Alto, California plus engineering lab in Pune too.  The founders of Zeni are Snehal Shinde and Swapnil Shinde (Twins), they are serial entrepreneurs and Zeni is their third startup.  Before Zeni, they built Mezi.com that they sold to American Express at $120 million in merely two years.  Zeni is very well funded too and it can be disclosed when we talk.

The details about this position are as below:

• You must be or like to be a Jack of all
• Design and build fault-tolerant, high-performance, scalable systems
• Design and maintain the core software components that support Zeni platform
• Improve the scalability, resilience, observe ability, and efficiency of our core systems
• Code using primarily Python.
• Work closely with, and incorporate feedback from, product management, platform architects and senior engineers.
• Fail fast, fix fast. Rapidly fix bugs and solve the problems
• Proactively look for ways to make Zeni platform better
• Speed, Speed, Speed - must be a performance freak!

• E. / B.Tech in Computer Science.
• 2yrs to 5 yrs of commercial software development experience
• You have built some impressive, non-trivial web applications by hand
• Excellent programming skills in Python (Object Oriented is a BIG plus)
• Google App engine experience a huge plus
• Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
• Good understanding of web technologies (HTTP, Apache) and familiarity with Unix/Linux
• Good understanding of data structures, algorithms and design patterns
• Great written communication and documentation abilities
• Comfortable in a small, intense and high-growth start-up environment
• You know and can admit when something is not great.
• You can recognise that something you've done needs improvement
• Past participation in Hackathorns a big plus
• Startup experience or Product company experience is MUST.
• Experience integrating with 3rd party APIs
• Experience with Agile product development methodology
• Good at maintaining servers and troubleshooting
• Understanding of database query processing and indexing are preferred
• Experience with OAuth
• Experience with Google Cloud and/or Google App Engine platforms
• Experience writing unit tests
• Experience with distributed version control systems (eg: Git)

Work Location:Mumbai,Gurgoan,Indore,Bangalore,Hyderabad

• J2EE
• Web services
• JSON
• JSP Servlet
• Exception handling
• Multithreading
• Rest API
• Microservices

ABOUT ZYCUS:

Headquartered in Princeton, U.S. in 1998, Zycus has grown every day to be established as an organization which now is a leading global provider of complete Source-to-Pay suite of procurement performance solutions.

We develop cloud-based (SaaS) https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zycus.com%2Fsolution%2Fprocurement-performance.html">Source-to-Pay solutions for large global enterprises, and have successfully deployed about 200 solutions to over 1000 Global clients. We are proud to have as our clients, some of the best-of- breed companies across verticals like Manufacturing, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Oil and Gas, Food Processing, Electronics, Telecommunications, Chemicals, Health and Pharma, Education and more. 

With a team of 1000+employees, we are present in India with 3 development centers at Bengaluru, Mumbai & Pune and offices in the https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zycus.com%2Fcareers%2FUS-Careers.html">U.S., U.K., Australia, https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zycus.com%2Fpress-releases%2Fzycus-expands-middle-east-presence-with-new-location-in-dubai.html">Dubai and https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zycus.com%2Fpress-releases%2Fzycus-continues-global-expansion-with-new-office-in-singapore.html">Singapore, Amsterdam. 

https://workable.com/nr?l=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zycus.com%2Fcompany%2Fcareers.html">Know more about the LEADER of: https://workable.com/nr?l=http%3A%2F%2Fcampaign.zycus.com%2FGMQ2017">Gartner’s 2013, 2015 & 2017 Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites and https://workable.com/nr?l=http%3A%2F%2Fcampaign.zycus.com%2FThe-Forrester-Wave-eProcurement-Q2-2017-Zycus-Named-a-Leader">The Forrester Wave™: eProcurement, Q2 2017

1. Involvement in the full software development life cycle with stringent needs on (i) time to market, & (ii) quality of product - functional and non-functional aspect.
2. Ownership of complex software architectures, operational metrics, and running the day to day business operations.
3. Designing and defining the interaction between the different components and teams.
4. Work closely with peers and product managers to develop great technical design and approach for new product development.
5. Definition of, and compliance with, a world-class build/release and configuration management process.

This position will report in to Director of engineering & the roles & responsibilities are as below: 

1. Identify the technologies that would be used for the product.
2. Recommend the development methodology and framework for the project.
3. Provide the overall design and structure to the application.
4. Ensure that the product is adequately defined & documented.
5. Establish design/coding guidelines and best practices, and drive usage of design patterns.
6. Enforce compliance with coding guidelines using code reviews etc.
7. Build solution which is easily configurable, deploy-able and secure in SaaS environment.
8. Responsible for planning product iterations & releasing iterations on schedule.

   The Applicant with a total experience of 10-20years, should have hands-on development experience in Core Java and J2EE with proven expertise in writing application architecture and core design ground up with sound algorithmic thought process enabling bullet-proof application performance in terms of key drivers like security, load, scalability, etc.

   Skills and Technologies:
   1. Versatile experience with delivering highly available services on multiple technology stacks in traditional data centers, public clouds, and private clouds.
   2. Core Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, JMS/Rabbit MQ/Kafka, Web-Services, Oracle, MSSQL, JSP-Servlets, , Design Patterns.

   Nice to have: New edge technology (Hadoop, AWS, Spark, RabbitMQ etc)

   Team mentoring:

   1. Mentor developers for difficult tasks & provide technical advice and guidance to the Tech Leads.
   2. Guide the team is doing POCs and early risk assessments.

      Leadership Abilities:

      • Optimize & effectively manage resources and time of the team members.
      • Identify, track and mitigate risks to the product
      • Should not hesitate to carry out healthy and constructive confrontation with team members, peers and managers for the benefit of Product.
      • Along with a competitive compensation structure, Zycus believes in an open culture learning environment, where everyone gets a chance to share their ideas and deliver par excellence.