Lead Software Engineer

Essential Responsibilities:

• Building, refining, tuning, and maintaining our real-time and batch data infrastructure Daily use technologies such as Python, Spark, Airflow, Snowflake, Hive, Scylla, Django, FastAPI, etc
• Maintaining data quality and accuracy across production data systems
• Working with Data Engineers to optimize data models and workflows
• Working with Data Analysts to develop ETL processes for analysis and reporting
• Working with Product Managers to design and build data products
• Working with our DevOps team to scale and optimize our data infrastructure
• Participate in architecture discussions, influence the road map, take ownership and responsibility over new projects
• Participating in on-call rotation in their respective time zones (be available by phone or email in case something goes wrong)

Desired Characteristics:

• Minimum 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Proven long term experience and enthusiasm for distributed data processing at scale, eagerness to learn new things.
• Expertise in designing and architecting distributed low latency and scalable solutions in either cloud and onpremises environment.
• Exposure to the whole software development lifecycle from inception to production and monitoring
• Fluency in Python or solid experience in Scala, Java
• Proficient with relational databases and Advanced SQL
• Expert in usage of services like Spark and Hive
• Experience with web frameworks such as Flask, Djang
• Experience in adequate usage of any scheduler such as Apache Airflow, Apache Luigi, Chronos etc
• Experience in adequate usage of cloud services (AWS) at scale
• Experience in agile software development processes
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills Nice to have:
• Experience with large scale / multi-tenant distributed systems
• Experience with columnar / NoSQL databases - Vertica, Snowflake, HBase, Scylla, Couchbase
• Experience in real team streaming frameworks - Flink, Storm
• Experience in open table formats such as Iceberg, Hudi or Deltalake