Staff Engineer - Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Level of skills and experience:

5 years of hands-on experience in using Python, Spark,Sql.

Experienced in AWS Cloud usage and management.

Experience with Databricks (Lakehouse, ML, Unity Catalog, MLflow).

Experience using various ML models and frameworks such as XGBoost, Lightgbm, Torch.

Experience with orchestrators such as Airflow and Kubeflow.

Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Fundamental understanding of Parquet, Delta Lake and other data file formats.

Proficiency on an IaC tool such as Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation.

Strong written and verbal English communication skill and proficient in communication with non-technical stakeholderst

My Client's India is its largest studio outside USA with 400+ people and growing rapidly. It manages some of the biggest global games in the Casual Gaming, Action Strategy, Match-3, Slots, and Invest Express genres. The game teams are responsible for the long term-vision of the game, its entire Game Design & Tuning, Product Roadmap, Features, Content & Creative decisions, Art work (2D, 3D, Animation), Development, QA/Testing, Analytics & Performance Tracking, User Acquisition & Live Operations.

The India team is full of passionate gamers, who love to play, build great products, and have fun doing it. Studio I expect continued growth and is looking for strong leaders to expand the studio into this next growth phase.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the software design of large scale applications and features & enhancements which reaches millions of players. You should be passionate about players, performance, scalability and holds a very high bar for quality of the game.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Owns technical roadmap, design and review for end-to-end games, ensure design quality and integrity
• Modernizing the tech stack
• Bring tech innovations in the game which will help in growth of the games
• Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/add enhancements
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability and stability of various system resources
• Lead and Mentor junior engineers and drive a culture of technical perfection.
• Drive creative and innovative solutions to complex problems, exemplifying good technical discernment.
• Drive improvements and new approaches to address potential systemic pain points and technical debt, anticipate and avoid problems.
• Take a hands-on approach in the development of prototypes, independently and with others, to establish design decisions and/or technical feasibility.

Required Skills

• Masters or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• A minimum of 7 years of professional experience in software development, mobile, desktop or web application development with hands on coding experience covering full stack
• Experience coding in C#, C++, Python, Javascript and SQL
• Working knowledge of mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• A proven foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, OOPS and software design
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Desired Skills

• Experience with mobile development – Android/iOS/Native OR on game engines such as Cocos-2D, Unity or other.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, ELBs, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, terraform etc)
• Experience with setting up server monitoring, alerting and server provisioning
• Familiarity with micro service architecture, containers and related technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Experience with development tools & integrated build systems: XCode, IntelliJ, Git/Jenkins
• Experience of driving activities, review process to ensure software and product quality.
• Willing to pick up any languages, technologies, or methodologies necessary to smite a challenge—and if a conventional solution does not exist, then innovate as necessary.

What we offer you:

• Work in a studio that has complete P&L ownership of games
• Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus scheme and  RSUs
• Full medical, accident as well as life insurance benefits
• Catered breakfast, lunch and evening snacks
• Child care facilities for women employees and discounted facilities for male employees
• Well stocked pantry
• Generous Paid Maternity/Paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Active Employee Resource Groups – Women 
• Frequent employee events
• Additional leave options for most employees
• Flexible working hours on many teams
• Casual dress every single day
• Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players!

• Back-end software development
• Software engineering and designing data models and write effective APIs
• Working together with engineers and product teams
• Understanding business use cases and requirements for different internal teams
• Maintenance of existing projects and New feature development
• Consume and integrate classifier/ ML snippets from Data science team

What we are looking for:

• 2+ years of industry experience with the Python and Django framework.
• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Good analytical skills with strong fundamentals of data structures and algorithms
• Experience building backend services with hands-on experience through all stages of Agile software development life cycle. 
• Ability to write optimized codes,debug programs, and integrate applications with third party tools by developing various APIs
• Experience with Databases.
• Experience with writing REST-APIs.
• Prototyping initial collection and leveraging existing tools and/or creating new tools
• Experience working different types of datasets (e.g. unstructured, semi-structured, with missing information)
• Ability to think critically and creatively in a dynamic environment, while picking up new tools and domain knowledge along the way
• A positive attitude, and a growth mindset

Bonus:

• Experience with relevant Python libraries such as Requests, sklearn, Selenium
• Hands on experience in Machine learning implementations
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and relevant microservices
• Good Humor

• Writing efficient, reusable, testable, and scalable code
• Understanding, analyzing, and implementing – Business needs, feature modification requests, conversion into software components
• Integration of user-oriented elements into different applications, data storage solutions
• Developing – Backend components to enhance performance and receptiveness, server-side logic, and platform, statistical learning models, highly responsive web applications
• Designing and implementing – High availability and low latency applications, data protection and security features
• Performance tuning and automation of application
• Working with Python libraries like Pandas, NumPy, etc.
• Creating predictive models for AI and ML-based features
• Keeping abreast with the latest technology and trends
• Fine-tune and develop AI/ML-based algorithms based on results

Good proficiency in,

• Python frameworks like Django, etc.
• Web frameworks and RESTful APIs
• Core Python fundamentals and programming
• Code packaging, release, and deployment
• Database knowledge
• Circles, conditional and control statements
• Object-relational mapping
• Code versioning tools like Git, Bitbucket

Fundamental understanding of,

• Front-end technologies like JS, CSS3 and HTML5
• AI, ML, Deep Learning, Version Control, Neural networking
• Data visualization, statistics, data analytics
• Design principles that are executable for a scalable app
• Creating predictive models
• Libraries like Tensorflow, Scikit-learn, etc
• Multi-process architecture
• Basic knowledge about Object Relational Mapper libraries
• Ability to integrate databases and various data sources into a unified system
• Basic knowledge about Object Relational Mapper libraries
• Ability to integrate databases and various data sources into a unified system

Expereince: 3-5 years

Domain: SQL server/SSIS/Cloud technology

Good Knowledge in Creating new tables in database.

Using Triggers, trunket,delete,view,etc

• We are one of the fastest-growing game development companies with headquarters in
• Bangalore, India. Since our inception in 2017, we have carved a niche in the gaming industry by our highly creative and expert approach to game design, artwork and development. Our two games, ‘Ludo STAR’ and ‘Parchisi STAR’ have already reached 50 million global downloads.
• We have a grand vision of being the “Best Game Developing Company” in the world. We are vastly committed to developing visually appealing and technically advanced games for diverse platforms and game applications that appeal to all ages.
• We offer an autonomous studio consisting of self-motivated teams in a fast decision-making
• environment, allowing you to be truly impactful and develop professionally.
• It’s an exciting time to come aboard, career experience as a lead developer working with leadership teams.

Requires a bachelor's degree in area of specialty and experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. A degree of creativity and latitude is required. Typically reports to a supervisor or manager.

Designs, develops, and implements web-based Java applications to support business requirements. Follows approved life cycle methodologies, creates design documents, and performs program coding and testing. Resolves technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation.

Additional Job Details:

Strong in Java, Spring, Spring Boot, REST and developing MicroServices.

Knowledge or experience , Cassandra preferred

Knowledge or experience on Kafka

Good to have but not must

Good to know:

Reporting tools like Splunk/Grafana

Protobuf

Python/Ruby