Senior Software Engineer

Software Engineer – Tech Lead

- You are your own master.  We don't preach you, we just allow you to Innovate, Iterate, Learn and Adapt

- Work with one of India's leading fintech unicorn company

- ESOPs in the company

Requirements

• 6+ yrs of exposure in the art of writing code and solving problems on large scale.
• Should be language agnostic, with extensive and expert programming experience in any one programming language (strong OO skills preferred).
• Deep experience in at least one general programming language. Preferred (Java,Scala, C++)
• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures,

algorithms, and software design.

• Worked end to end on 2-3 complex projects
• Worked in startup like environment with high levels of ownership and commitment
• Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing

large complex business flows and dealing with huge amount of data.

• Extensive experience on working with distributed technologies like Kafka, MongoDb,

Redis/Aerospike, MySQL, AWS etc

• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
• Ability to switch between the technologies and learn new skills on the go.

Roles and responsibilities

Drive discussions to create/improve the product, process and technology

• Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scope
• Rapid prototyping
• Robust and scalable web-based applications
• Do high-level design with guidance; Functional modelling, break-down of a module
• Thinking platforms & reuse, the open-source contribution will be a plus
• Do incremental changes to architecture: impact analysis of the same
• Do performance tuning and improvements in large scale distributed systems
• Mentor young minds and foster team spirit

Role – Java Full-Stack Developer

Skills

• Professional experience (5-8Y) in commercial software or corporate application Backend and Frontend/UI development
• Strong experience in Typescript/ Javascript - Min 3Y
• Knowledge and experience in enterprise-scale, multi-tier, distributed architecture
• Solid experience in object-oriented design and development with languages such as Java 8.0 onwards
• Solid knowledge of high-scale, multi-tenant Web service development, including REST/JSON and Microserviceservice patterns
• Solid experience in Spring Boot
• Solid experience in Spring Data/JPA/Hibernate
• Exposure to multithreading and Junit is a must.
• Proficient in database concepts and working experience with Oracle Database
• Proficient in performance analysis and tuning
• Proficiency with agile development methodologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong and real production experience with Angular 8.0 onwards and its core principles – Min 3Y
• In-depth knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, Angular Material UI web standards and how to apply them.
• Experience in responsive design using bootstrape or similar framework and progressive enhancement techniques
• Experience in developing reusable components in Angular
• Working knowledge of Forms-based Applications
• Integration experience with REST-based APIs
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Proficiency with Git (Bitbucket, GitHub, Gitlab) is an advantage
• Proficiency with agile development methodologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills

JD/Responsibility

• Developing new user-facing features using Angular 8.0
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high quality code
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers
• Debugging/troubleshooting web applications
• Collaborate closely with groups in and outside the development team (eg. QA, Product Management, Tech Pub) to achieve well groomed, predictable results
• Analyze, design, develop and unit test software applications with high quality and on schedule, including business critical Web services to be consumed by internal/external applications.
• Analyzes, programs, and modifies software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked, or Internet-related computer programs.
• Use modern technologies and apply industry-standard software development best practices.
• Collaborate closely with groups in and outside the development team (eg. QA, Product Management, Tech Pub) to achieve well-groomed, predictable results
• Flexible for Domestic travel based on project needs.
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Experience: 5-7 Yrs

Location: Mumbai (onsite)

Notice Period: 30 days maximum

• Collaborate with teams to develop and support the smooth 24x7 operation of our service.
• Create prototypes and proofs-of-concept for iterative development.
• Stay updated with emerging tech cultures and implement them in production systems.
• Develop scalable, long-term strategies to aid the company’s 10X growth.
• Ensure content quality and consistency of the brand.
• Reduce technical debt with quality coding

• BTech degree in computer science or related field.
• 4-10 years of relevant work experience.
• Strong knowledge of any of the databases like MySQL, NoSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL.
• Experience in Java and web technologies.
• Experience in scripting languages like Python, PHP, etc.
• Hands-on experience with systems that are asynchronous, RESTful and demand concurrency.
• Knowledge of best software engineering practices for all stages of software development life cycle

Software Development Engineer

Bengaluru/Hyderabad/Gurgaon/Chennai

As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you have industry-leading technical abilities and demonstrate breadth and depth of knowledge. You build software to deliver business impact, making smart technology choices. You work in a team and drive things forward.

 Top Skills

• You write high quality, maintainable, and robust code, often in Java or C++ or C#
• You recognize and adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, and operations.
• You have experience building scalable software systems that are high-performance, highly-available, highly transactional, low latency and massively distributed.

Roles & Responsibilities

• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
• You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
• You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
• You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
• You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or relevant technical field.
• Experience in software development and full product life-cycle.
• Excellent programming skills in any object oriented programming languages - preferably Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Proficiency in SQL and data modeling.

About Amazon.com

“Many of the problems we face have no textbook solution, and so we-happily-invent new ones.”  – Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com – a place where builders can build. We hire the world's brightest minds and offer them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers. A Fortune 100 company based in Seattle, Washington, Amazon is the global leader in e-commerce. Amazon offers everything from books and electronics to apparel and diamond jewelry. We operate sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom and United States, and maintain dozens of fulfillment centers around the world which encompass more than 26 million square feet.

Technological innovation drives the growth of Amazon, offering our customers more selection, convenient shopping, and low prices. Amazon Web Services provides developers and small to large businesses access to the horizontally scalable state of the art cloud infrastructure like S3, EC2, AMI, CloudFront and SimpleDB, that powers Amazon.com. Developers can build any type of business on Amazon Web Services and scale their application with growing business needs.

We want you to help share and shape our mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of invention that is part of our DNA. We do this every day by inventing elegant and simple solutions to complex technical and business problems. We're making history and the good news is that we've only just begun.

About Amazon India

Amazon teams in India work on complex business challenges to innovate and create efficient solutions that enable various Amazon businesses, including Amazon websites across the world as well as support Payments, Transportation, and Digital products and services like the Kindle family of tablets, e-readers and the store. We are proud to have some of the finest talent and strong leaders with proven experience working to make Amazon the Earth’s most customer-centric company.

We made our foray into the Indian market with the launch of Junglee.com, enabling retailers in India to advertise their products to millions of Indian shoppers and drive targeted traffic to their stores. In June 2013, we launched http://www.amazon.in">www.amazon.in for shoppers in India. With www.amazon.in, we endeavor to give customers more of what they want – low prices, vast selection, fast and reliable delivery, and a trusted and convenient online shopping experience. In just over a year of launching our India operations, we have expanded our offering to over 18 million products across 36 departments and 100s of categories! Our philosophy of working backwards from the customers is what drives our growth and success.

We will continue to strive to become a trusted and meaningful sales and logistics channel for retailers of all sizes across India and a fast, reliable and convenient online shopping destination for consumers. For us, it is always “Day 1” and we are committed to aggressively invest over the long-term and relentlessly focus on raising the bar for customer experience in India.

Amazon India offers opportunities where you can dive right in, work with smart people on challenging problems and make an impact that contributes to the lives of millions. Join us so you can - Work Hard, Have Fun and Make History.

Purpose of the Role

To design and implement the Peak AI System - a new system of intelligence that allows companies to quickly harness the power of AI.

The Opportunity 

Peak is a Decision Intelligence company - we are on a mission to help organisations use AI to make great commercial decisions, all the time. Just as importantly, we are also focused on building an amazing company - one where we truly value our people & culture, and strive to make an amazing and diverse place to work. Our recent Best Companies award & 3 star accreditation for being one of the top companies to work for is a testament to this.

We have ambitious plans over the coming years; to launch and lead a new category of technology (Decision Intelligence), expand our operations and create the best working culture possible. This is a great time to join Peak and the Engineering team, as we start the next stage of our global growth.

The Role

Based in Jaipur or Pune, you will be working in a collaborative team on cutting edge technologies in a supportive and dynamic environment. Ultimately you are responsible for building the CODI and on-boarding new clients - this involves:

• Developing a good understanding of the solutions which Peak delivers, and how these link to Peak’s overall strategy.
• Making suggestions towards shaping the strategy for a feature and engineering design.
• Managing own workload and usually delivering unsupervised. Accountable for their own workstream or the work of a small team.  
• Understanding Engineering priorities and is able to focus on these, helping others to remain focussed too
• Acting as the Lead Engineer on a project. Helps ensure others follow Peak processes, such as release and version control.
• An active member of the team, through useful contributions to projects and in team meetings.
• Supervising others. Deputising for a Lead and/or support them with tasks. Mentoring new joiners/interns and Masters students. Sharing knowledge and learnings with the team.

Required Skills and Experience

We are building a team of world class engineers in Jaipur / Pune, essentially we are looking for bright, talented engineers looking to work at the cutting edge of practical AI.

• Acquired strong proven professional programming experience.
• Strong command of Algorithms, Data structures, Design patterns, and Product Architectural Design.
• Good understanding of DevOps, Cloud technologies, CI/CD, Serverless and Docker, preferable AWS 
• Proven track record and expert in one of the field - DevOps/Frontend/Backend
• Excellent coding and debugging skills in any language with command on any one programming paradigm, preferred Javascript/Python/Go
• Experience with at least one of the Database systems - RDBMS and NoSQL
• Ability to document requirements and specifications.
• A naturally inquisitive and problem-solving mindset.
• Strong experience in using AGILE or SCRUM techniques to build quality software.
• Advantage: experience in React js, AWS, Nodejs, Golang, Apache Spark, ETL tool, data integration system, certification in AWS, worked in a Product company and involved in making it from scratch, Good communication skills, open-source contributions, proven competitive coding pro

As well as doing great work we have created an award-winning, fun and exciting workplace that people love to be, we are looking for people to join us who share our values and are:

• Open - Always up for new ideas and able to take and give feedback in a positive way.
• Driven - sets high goals, doesn’t give up, and make sacrifices to ensure that their job gets done on time and meets/exceeds expectations.
• Curious - Aware of new technologies and uses them to make new improvements in the Engineering ecosystem.
• Smart - Innovative and thinks out of the box, in difficult situations finds a way to succeed no matter what 
• Responsible - takes ownership of tasks given and has a strong work ethic.

About Peak

In an age when becoming AI and data-driven is one of the most important things businesses must do, it can also be one of the most challenging. That’s where Peak comes in; our CODI system sits at the heart of our client’s businesses, enabling the rapid unification, modelling and - most importantly - use of data - helping decision makers make great commercial decisions, powered by AI. All supported by our world-class data science team.

Founded in 2014, Peak has grown rapidly, in line with the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies, winning numerous awards and attracted significant funding to support the company’s ongoing investment in machine learning and AI technologies. All to further our mission to become the world’s leading AI System business.

Headquartered in Manchester, Peak also has offices in London, Edinburgh, Jaipur and Brisbane. Our clients include some of the world's leading retailers, manufacturers and well-known brands alongside highly innovative and tech-savvy businesses. Peak is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, and holds Machine Learning Competency and Retail Competency status.

1. Should have deep knowledge in the relevant tech stack (JAVA, MEAN, MERN, LAMP, etc.,) with Micro-services experience.

2. Must be well versed with algorithms

3. Should have in-depth knowledge of databases - SQL, NoSQL, Mongo DB.

4. Should be able to suggest the best stack and provide an optimized approach to complete a project.

5. Should be able to covert requirements into sprint plans and estimations.

6. Should be able to jump on client calls and translate and break down business level requirements into developer goals/sprints.

7. Should be able to step in and code/solve problems when required

8. Should be able to review the code of the developers and objectively define points for improvement

9. Should be willing to learn new stacks and spend a lot of time on RnD

10. Should be able to get things done :)

11. Should be able to assess risks involved in the projects.