Lead Engineer | Scrabble & Jigsaw
Posted on March 17, 2023
Job Description
<h4>Job Responsibilities</h4>
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<p dir="ltr">Experience in designing, architecting and building large scale distributed, data-intensive systems on multiple occasions.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Deep expertise in either transactional or analytical datastores is highly desired.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Has a track record for bringing innovation and technical leadership to organisations.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Platform domain expertise to guide early decisions that can help accelerate execution, with a mindset of build once, build with configurability and build for reuse.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Domain experience in building ecommerce products on the cloud.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">End-end software engineering experience, with ability to step in during outages and production issues.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Own and delegate all technical decisions for the portfolio he / she owns.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Own and deliver long term technology strategy, convince management team for investments in technology.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Drive PoCs, evaluations, build Vs buy decisions for all strategic decisions</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Be a mentor and consultant for teams / individuals across the company</p>
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<p dir="ltr">From architecting to running services in production, you will help build them, so they are modular, secure, reliable, reusable, diagnosable, and actively monitored</p>
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<p dir="ltr">You will draw from your experience during the evaluation phase to choose the best components, and the way forward, keeping in mind the priorities of the organization.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">You should be able to clearly articulate the reasoning behind various technical decisions in simple and cogent technical documents you create</p>
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<p dir="ltr">You should have a strong focus on HA, scalability, observability, reliability and quality.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">You shall act as a role model for keeping the bar raised at all times on architecture best practices.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Based on your experience, you shall contribute to making our internal architectural standards better by suggesting improvements as you discover better ways forward</p>
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<p dir="ltr">You will exhibit a growth mindset and continuously learn. You will then develop PoCs to regularly evaluate technologies that might better solve customer problems.</p>
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<div>Skills/ Experience</div>
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<p dir="ltr">Engineering or Equivalent Bachelor’s degree preferable from top engineering colleges.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">8+ years of experience in developing ecommerce B2B/B2C products/platforms.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Expertise In Java/JavaEE/Spring/SpringBoot/HTML/CSS/Angular/React/Vue JS</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Good understanding In GCP/AWS/DevOps/SRE/On-Calls.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Able to work and thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing work environment</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Should have excellent communication skills, with an ability to convey ideas clearly & precisely</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Must have leadership skills & a good team player</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Must be pro-active & a self-starter</p>
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