Software Development Engineer IV

Description:

- Research, design and build highly reliable, available and scalable platforms.

- Complete ownership of the Service/Services that your team is responsible for.

- Lead by example, mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.

- Platformism components as libraries, utilities and services and promote reuse.

- Own large technical deliverables and execute in an exemplary way.

- Be able to conceptualise and develop a prototype quickly.

- Drive the technical road map of the team in collaboration with Engineering and Product.

- Distributed Systems Architecture, components modelling, data flow, Scaling and managing large pieces of data.

- Articulating system requirements, problem comprehension and identifying high-level building blocks.

- Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) like Scalability, Fault-Tolerance, High Availability, Sharding, Replication, Load balance & Application-level Security, etc.

- Able to take high ownership of complex system components and drive them to the next level.

- Machine Coding (Able to write modular and functionally complete object-oriented code, NFR implementation, abstractions, separation of concerns, concurrency and thread safety, extensibility, hooks, etc).

Requirements:

- Deep expertise in at least one programming language and tech stack.

- Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions.

- Strong object-oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces

- The ability to do deep problem solving and build elegant, maintainable solutions to complex problems.

- Experience leading multi-engineer projects and mentoring junior engineers.

- Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platform.

- Comprehensive operational experience, optimisations, deployments and tuning servers like Apache/mysql/Tomcat/Solr.

- Prior experience in working with Agile software methodologies (XP, Scrum), TDD and Continuous Integration (CI/CD) is a plus.

- B Tech, M Tech in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent). Or high technical acumen and rich technical experience.

- Experience in building data-driven web application design and development is a plus.

- Expert-level experience in building scalable, large and complex business applications using some of the above technologies and mentoring junior engineers.

- Deep expertise with any or combination of programming languages: Java, C++, C#, Ruby, PHP, any objected oriented high level proprietary or open-source language with strong programming constructs.

- Strong System Characterisation and identification of technical requirements.

- Deep knowledge of one or more tech stacks, identify alternative tech choices and trade-offs.

- Strong problem-Solving skills, identify feasible alternatives and freeze on the optimal choice of data structures and advanced algorithms.

- Ability to work in fuzzy environments and complex environments.

- Good exposure both with tech breadth and tech depth.

- Good skills in Metrics and Monitoring.