Staff Engineer

Job Description :

Hiring for Staff Engineer (Back end) for a leading product based company at DLF IT Park, Chennai.

Skill Set :

- Strong Experience in any Programming language (Ruby, Go, Java, or other high-performance languages), Architecture, Design (HLD/LLD), Data structures, Algorithms, Hands-on Coding, Problem Solving, etc

- Experience in Web Technology is Must.

- Looking for candidates with good experience in product development.

- Candidates from product development companies will be preferred.

- Candidates willing to relocate/preferring Chennai can apply.

Responsibilities :

- Analyze and drive product requirements

- Architect and design product features for scale and maintainability

- Lead in the design, implementation, and deployment of successful systems and services

- Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems

- Implement code with very high coverage of unit tests and component tests

- Perform design and code reviews

- Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions

- Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations

- Possess expert knowledge in performance, security, scalability, architecture, and best practices

- Software development of high quality/availability core systems

- Cross-training peers and mentoring teammates

- Document HLD/LLD for easy knowledge sharing and future scaling

Must have :

- 8-12 years of experience designing, integrating and developing distributed applications in Ruby, Go, Java, or other high-performance languages

- Experience with cluster and container orchestration systems such as Docker, Mesos, Marathon, Salt or Kubernetes.

- Experience with Service design, systems engineering, API Design and versioning

- Understanding of Design Patterns, Serverless computing, cloud-first architecture, TDD, BDD, CI/CD, Integration Patterns

Good to have :

- Experience building distributed systems using Kafka. Strong grasp of fundamental concepts of Kafka, ZooKeeper and building producer and consumer applications using Kafka

- Familiarity writing and optimizing advanced SQL queries

- Good Linux/UNIX systems knowledge

- AWS compute and storage PaaS services. AWS certified solutions architect nice to have.

- Experience productionizing Machine Learning models

- Experience publishing technical papers in reputed conferences.