Senior Architect

• Architects at Flipkart are responsible for driving Technology & good practices in Engineering in their respective teams
• Actively participate in development along with team members for as much as 75% of their time, creating modules & systems that can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.
• 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.
• Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you can create.
• Implementation of long-term technology vision for your team.
• Responsible for the architecture of your product; ensuring it is aligned to the requirements and the charter.
• Active participant in technology forums & represent Flipkart in external forums.
• Creating architectures & designs for new solutions around existing and new problem spaces at Flipkart.
• Drive technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them.
• Going beyond your role and contributing to make the organization & business better is an expectation

Technologies used :

Distributed systems built using Java, Python, Scala, Mysql, Redis, Elastic Search, Spark, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Druid, MongoDB, Aerospike, Kafka, RabbitMQ, nodejs, React Native, Reactjs, Reactive Programming with Vert.x & Spring webflux, Google Cloud Platform, K8s

You should have:

• Quick & Excellent Problem Solving skills for complex & large-scale problems.
• Technical Breadth 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 exercises & improve coding standards across large code bases.
• Good knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures. Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions.
• Good understanding & experience of high performance web scale & real-time response systems.
• Good understanding & experience of Big data systems and architecture
• Experience & exposure to 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 Architects should have seen it all. Should have been part of scalable product development cycles with either large data handling or large transaction processing exposure for 3+ years.
• Excellent Mentoring skills Be the technical mentor to your team.
• Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments where boundaries arent clearly defined
• 15+ years of overall experience.