Technical Architect

Architects are responsible for driving Technology & Best Practices in Engineering. We are a rapidly growing & constantly improving organisation. We seek very high levels of ownership in all individuals, especially leadership roles like this - Ownership of your team, your product. Going beyond your role & contributing to make the organisation & business better is an expectation.

Responsibilities:

• Actively participate in development along with team members for as much as 50% of their time, creating modules & systems that can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.
• Participating in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
• Being responsible for Scaling, Performance & Quality for the team
• Setting up best practices to help the team achieve the above and constantly thinking about improving the technology use are your responsibilities.
• Driving the adoption of these best practices around coding, design, quality, performance in your team and influence them for the entire organisation are also expectations from you.
• Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you are able to create
• Collaborate with Product Management and Product Development leaders in developing product visions and strategies.
• Define & drive implementation of long term technology vision for your product & team
• You will be the primary owner of the architecture of your product and will also be responsible for getting it reviewed, and making sure the system is built accordingly.
• Be an evangelist for technology & represent in external forums.
• Creating architectures & designs for new solutions around existing and new problem spaces
• Drive technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them.

Requirements:

• Quick & Excellent Problem solving skills for complex & large scale problems
• Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies
• Very Strong System design and OO skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction
• Solid coding skills with ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercise & improve coding standards across large code bases
• Deep knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures.
• Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions
• Deep understanding & experience of high performance web scale & real-time response systems with experience & expertise in a variety of large scale persistent systems including large databases
• Exposure to complete product development cycles - From inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures the Principle architects should have seen it all and ideally in multiple cycles.
• Should have been part of scalable product development cycles with either large data handling or large transaction processing exposure for 5 years
• Must have worked in a small setup (either a startup or a small & reasonably independent team)
• 8+ years of overall experience
• B Tech or higher in Computer Science or equivalent required