The candidate will lead the technical roadmap for the data platform team, which consists of 5-10 talented but possibly inexperienced team members.
The candidate will typically perform the following roles
- Lay out the technical roadmap for the next n months from time to time
- Mentor junior engineers in the form of code reviews and knowledge sharing about coding and design best practices
- Coding and system design for new features and bug fixes
- Take care of Operations excellence and oncall by monitoring production system
The role requires a strong technical knowledge on several fronts
Required
- Candidates must be based in Bangalore. Please do not apply if you're currently living outside Bangalore
- Expertise in Java is required. Please do not apply without having worked hands-on in Java for at least 5 years in enterprise projects.
- Candidate should be aware of dependency injection and how it is used in unit testing frameworks.
- Candidates should have working knowledge of Java best practices, as laid out in (for example) "Effective Java by Josh Bloch".
- Candidates should have experience in writing multi-threaded java programs and should be aware of such things as the java memory model.
- Candidates should be aware of multi threading best practices as specified in (for example) "Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz etc"
- Candidates require a strong working knowledge of linux based systems. This includes both theoritical knowledge as laid out in (for example) "linux system programming by Robert Love" as well as practical experience in linux system monitoring as laid out in (for example) "Systems Performance by Brendan Gregg"
- Depth of experience in SQL and PostgreSQL database.
Preferable
- Good working knowledge on kubernetes
- Experience in Google Cloud Platform and its data analytics products like BigQuery etc
- Previous experience working in a data platform team will be helpful
- Experience with Apache Flink
