Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

• HUB 2 Building of SEZ Towers, Karle Town Center, Nagavara, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Full-time

Company Description

When you're one of us, you get to run with the best. For decades, we've been helping marketers from the world's top brands personalize experiences for millions of people with our cutting-edge technology, solutions and services. Epsilon's best-in-class identity gives brands a clear, privacy-safe view of their customers, which they can use across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions. We process 400+ billion consumer actions each day and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee, Epsilon India is now Great Place to Work-Certified. Epsilon has also been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester, Adweek and the MRC. Positioned at the core of Publicis Groupe, Epsilon is a global company with more than 8,000 employees around the world. For more information, visit epsilon.com/apac or our LinkedIn page.

Job Description

Why we are Looking for You

At Epsilon, we run on our people's ideas. It's how we solve problems and exceed expectations. Our team is now growing, and we are on the lookout for talented individuals who always raise the bar by constantly challenging themselves and are experts in building customized solutions in the digital marketing space.

What you will enjoy in this Role

So, are you someone who wants to work with cutting-edge technology and enable marketers to create data-driven, omnichannel consumer experiences through data platforms Then you could be exactly who we are looking for.

Apply today and be part of a creative, innovative, and talented team that's not afraid to push boundaries or take risks.

What will you do

As a Lead, Software Engineer in the Epsilon Product Development team, you will design, implement, and optimize data processing solutions using Google workflows, Scala, Spark, and Hadoop. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy big data solutions on our on-premises and cloud infrastructure along with building, scheduling and maintaining workflows. Perform data integration and transformation, troubleshoot issues, Document processes, communicate technical concepts clearly, and continuously enhance our attribution engine/forecasting engine.

Strong written and verbal communication skills (in English) are required to facilitate work across multiple countries and time zones. Good understanding of Agile Methodologies SCRUM.

Qualifications

• Strong experience (7+ years) in Python/ Scala programming language and extensive experience with Apache Spark for Big Data processing for design, developing and maintaining scalable on-prem and cloud environments, especially on Google BigQuery.
• Solid grasp of database systems and SQLs for writing efficient SQL's (RDBMS/Warehouse) to handle TBS of data.
• Proficiency in performance tuning of Big Query jobs, optimizing resource usage, partitioning, and caching for maximum efficiency in GCP Big Query environments.
• Using Terraform to develop GCP infrastructure modules. Hence, hands-on experience with Terraform
• Expertise in designing and implementing scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines with end-to-end monitoring and alerting.
• End-to-end ownership with definition, development, and documentation of software's objectives, business requirements, deliverables, and specifications in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Experience in working on GIT (or equivalent source control) and solid understanding of Unit and integration test frameworks.
• Must have the ability to collaborate with stakeholders/teams to understand requirements and develop a working solution and the ability to work within tight deadlines and effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Must be able to mentor junior staff.

Advantageous to have experience on below:

• Experience in retail media / ad-tech or data-heavy domains.
• Hands-on with Databricks for unified data analytics, including Databricks Notebooks, Delta Lake, and Catalogues.
• Proficiency in using the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack for real-time search, log analysis, and visualization.
• Strong background in analytics, including the ability to derive actionable insights from large datasets and support data-driven decision-making.
• Experience with data visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI, or Grafana.
• Familiarity with Docker for containerization and Kubernetes for orchestration.
• Good to have AWS/GCP certification.