Responsible for ensuring that the architecture, data pipeline and design of the platform remains top-notch with respect to scalability, availability, reliability and maintainability
Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular mentoring. Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback.
Own end-to-end availability and performance of features, driving rapid product innovation while ensuring a reliable service.
Working closely with the various stakeholders like Program Managers, Product Managers, Reliability and Continuity Engineering (RCE) team, QE team to estimate and plan projects in an agile environment
Maintain and drive tech backlog execution for non-functional requirements of the platform required to keep the platform resilient
Assist in release planning and prioritisation based on technical feasibility and engineering constraints
A zeal to continually find new ways to improve architecture, design and ensure timely delivery and high quality
Requirements
Computer Science or equivalent engineering graduate from a reputed college with 5-8 years of experience in backend engineering
Thorough understanding of highly distributed, low latency and high throughput systems
Knowledge of globally distributed disaster-recovery enabled architectures
Experience of the best practices or REST (SpringBoot, jHipster, Dropwizard) and non-REST (gRPC) communication
Exceptional code reviewer and solid programmer (Node.js/Java)
Knowledge of essential distributed design patterns for backpressure, bulkhead, circuit breaker, event sourcing, CQRS, event driven architecture
Good knowledge of mid tier caching strategies
Understanding of Containerization, Orchestration and Service mesh frameworks (Kubernetes, Mesos, Ist.io, etc)
Good understanding of the best practices of API design
Champion of Engineering excellence - code reviews, unit tests, documentation of system design and architecture, etc
