As Software Engineer/Developer, you will work on one of the world's largest social media platform which deals with a few petabytes of data coming to the system daily. You will contribute as part of R&D self-organized team working in a challenging, innovative environment for our client.
Investigate, create, and implement the solutions for many technical challenges using cutting edge technologies, including building/enhancing data processing platform enabling work of software used by hundreds of millions of users.
MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Obtains tasks from the project lead or Team Lead (TL), prepares functional and design specifications, approves them with all stakeholders.
•Ensures that assigned area/areas are delivered within set deadlines and required quality objectives.
•Provides estimations, agrees task duration with the manager and contributes to project plan of assigned area.
•Evaluating existing data systems.
•Developing best practices for data coding to ensure consistency within the system.
•Updating and optimizing local and metadata models.
•Evaluating implemented data systems for variances, discrepancies, and efficiency.
•Troubleshooting and optimizing data systems.
•Understand the business drivers and analytical use-cases and translate these to data products
•Design, implement and maintain pipelines that produce business critical data reliably and efficiently using cloud technology
•Addresses area-level risks, provides and implements mitigation plan.
•Reports about area readiness/quality, and raise red flags in crisis situations which are beyond his/her AOR.
•Responsible for resolving crisis situations within his/her AOR.
•Initiates and conducts code reviews, creates code standards, conventions, and guidelines.
•Suggests technical and functional improvements to add value to the product;
•Constantly improves his/her professional level.
•Collaborates with other teams.
REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
•University degree in Computer Related Sciences or similar
•Over 5+ years of experience and proficiency in Java and C++ programming languages
•Extensive development experience with distributed storage systems such as HBase, Apache Druid, and Apache Cassandra.
•Minimum of 5+ years of relevant industry experience in software development, with a focus on distributed storage systems.
•Strong OOPs skills.
•Demonstrated ability and willingness to learn new programming languages as required by project demands.
•Strong track record as an independent contributor, capable of taking ownership of projects and driving them to successful completion.
•Effective communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
Would be a plus:
•Experience with AWS.