Sr. Software Engineer II

Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work across front-end, back-end, cloud infrastructure and test automation to build and operate a global platform. You will contribute across product development while solving complex challenges in a lean agile environment.

What you'll do

• Work on all areas of the software from front end, back end, cloud infrastructure and test automation.
• Drive high standards within the team for all internal services and open source tooling/libraries we maintain.
• Deploy service and infrastructure changes frequently in a lean agile environment using full CI/CD.
• Contribute in all aspects of product development: idea generation, customer engagement, planning, design, prototyping, execution, shipping, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with a team of passionate, engaged engineers and with cross-functional teams that include product managers, UX designers, UX researchers, and more.
• Actively mentor more junior engineers, showing how to balance customer delivery while holding high coding, service, and cloud infrastructure standards.
• Apply different approaches to problem solving and help validate your ideas and those of your teammates.
• Help define success for yourself, your team, and the features you help to conceive, build, and ship.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What you'll need

• Proficient with Java.
• Familiar with algorithms, data structures, and coding best practices.
• Curious, and always want to get to the bottom of why things work the way they do.
• A supportive leader who wants to help people get unstuck and recognises that teams are more effective when colleagues look for opportunities to help one another.
• A great communicator who can break a concept down based on your audience, whether they’re technical or non-technical, and your medium, whether it’s verbal, in prose, or in code.
• A builder who takes pride in your craft and works toward quality.
• An empathic individual who can help translate customer feedback and needs into features that solve problems.
• Someone who views bugs, mistakes, and compiler errors as opportunities to learn.
• Legally eligible to work in India on an ongoing basis.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Experience with distributed systems at scale.
• Understanding of event-driven architecture’s principles, advantages and limitations, and the ability to apply it appropriately.
• Hands-on experience with Kinesis, Kafka, or similar.
• Experience with Java.

Nice to have

• Experience with improving large-scale event processing systems is desirable.
• Experience with database log streams, e.g. MS-SQL Transaction Logs, MySQL Bin Logs, is desirable.
• Experience with stream processing frameworks such as Flink, Spark, or other is desirable.
• Squad lead or team lead experience is desirable.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.