About the Business Unit: The Product Team
The Product team is core to Epsilon's powerful platforms, connecting millions of customers worldwide with brands. This team develops and builds products that position Epsilon as a differentiator, fostering an open and balanced marketplace built on respect for individuals, where every brand interaction holds value. Our full-cycle product engineering and data teams leverage industry best practices and advanced capabilities in data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to chart the future and set new benchmarks for our products. Driven by a passion for delivering smart end-to-end solutions, this team plays a key role in Epsilon's success.
The India Product Engineering team, a 400+ strong organization within Epsilon India, is a full-cycle Engineering team that drives architecture, POCs, implementation, Quality Automation, product management, support, operations, and DevOps. With over 25 Scrum teams, this center drives outcomes across the breadth of the Epsilon PeopleCloud suite of products. This team of innovative thinkers develops and builds products that help Epsilon be a market differentiator, mapping the future and setting new standards for products, empowered with industry best practices, ML, and AI capabilities. The team passionately delivers intelligent end-to-end solutions and plays a key role in Epsilon's success story.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on a groundbreaking multichannel SaaS Digital Marketing Platform. This platform focuses on uniquely identifying customer patterns, effectively interacting with them across channels, and achieving a positive return on marketing investment (ROMI). The platform consolidates and integrates features and functionality typically found in stand-alone services and channel-specific messaging platforms to give marketers a tightly integrated, easily orchestrated, insights-driven, cross-channel marketing capability.
The primary role of the Senior Software Engineer is to envision and build internet-scale services on Cloud using Java and distributed technologies, with a 60-40 involvement in backend development with Java and frontend development using Angular.
Responsibilities
- Be responsible for development and maintenance of applications with technologies involving Java and Distributed technologies.
- Collaborate with developers, product manager, business analysts, and business users in conceptualizing, estimating, and developing new software applications and enhancements.
- Assist in the development and documentation of software's objectives, deliverables, and specifications in collaboration with internal users and departments.
- Collaborate with QA team to define test cases, metrics, and resolve questions about test results.
- Assist in the design and implementation process for new products, research, and create POC for possible solutions.
- Develop components based on business and/or application requirements.
- Create unit tests in accordance with team policies & procedures.
- Advise and mentor team members in specialized technical areas as well as fulfill administrative duties as defined by support process.
- Create Value-adds that would contribute to Cost Optimizations/Scalability/Reliability/Secure solutions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science.
- 6+ years experience in Java / Angular / BigData / Spark / Kafka / SQL / Python / AWS / Microservices.
Preferred knowledge/experience in the following technologies:
- Angular
- Spark, Java Streaming and Batch Analytics processes
- Big Data Ecosystems: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka
Experience in following Tools:
- Eclipse, Maven, Gradle, DB tools, Bitbucket/JIRA/Confluence.
Technical Skills:
- Can develop SOA services and good knowledge of REST API and Micro service architectures.
- Solid knowledge of web architectural and design patterns.
- Understands software security practices including user authentication and authorization, data validation and an understanding of common DOS and SQL injection techniques.
- Familiar with profiling, code coverage, logging, common IDE's and other development tools.
- Scripting Languages: Python and Bash.
- Familiar with Agile Methodologies - SCRUM.
Behavioral Attributes:
- Team player with excellent interpersonal collaboration skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication.
- Possess Can-Do attitude to overcome challenges with high energy levels.
- Self-motivated, directed, and passionate.
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written).
- Ability to work within tight deadlines and effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
- Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills, and ability to interface with Business, Analytics and IT organizations.
- Ability to work effectively in short-cycle, team oriented environment, managing multiple priorities and tasks.
- Ability to identify non-obvious solutions to complex problems.
Nice to have qualifications:
- Technical Cloud Certifications.
- Strong technical knowledge of SQL and data analysis with relational database modeling principles and techniques.
- Working knowledge of Data Technologies in the Cloud such as AWS services of compute, storage, messaging, RDS/Redshift or Snowflake.
- Strong skills in writing SQL queries (Oracle/SQL Server/Warehouse/NoSQL) and experience in Databricks.
- Basic UNIX/Linux knowledge/exposure is a plus but not required.
- Knowledge of data warehousing concepts.
- Proven expertise in ETL/ELT tooling such as Pentaho, Integration Services, Informatica, Data Pipeline, Glue.
Non-Technical:
- Functional knowledge of CRM, Marketing, Loyalty.
- Excellent Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot problems quickly.
- Strong time management skills with accountability.
- Ability to take full ownership of tasks and projects.
