Architect

Role/ Responsibilities:

• Participating in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.

• 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. Driving the adoption of these best practices around coding, design, quality, performance in your team.

• Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you are able to 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.

Must 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 exercise & 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.

• 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 aren't clearly

defined.

• B Tech or higher in Computer Science or equivalent required.