Job Location: Bangalore/Bengaluru
About the role
We are looking for engineers who are well rounded – quality conscious, product thinkers, business cognizant and smart – not mere coders. Engineers get to significantly amplify their impact with the scale that Flipkart operates at. The same scale also demands the engineers to produce super efficient solutions. Engineers participate and breed the culture of self-drive which is fuelled with merit based opportunities. In the pursuit of excellence, Flipsters compete against themselves because there is no competitor in the radar.
Flipsters area of work includes advanced information-retrieval algorithms, massive scalability, elastic storage, predictive analytics, fraud detection, inventory planning, supply chain, and large scale applications that enrich the user experience, to name a few. Working with the market leader, engineers mostly solve challenges-never- seen-before. The environment makes receptive people with open mind and a drive of ownership to succeed and create impact.The excitement gets further fuelled with the impact of flipsters work felt and complemented by friends and family in India. At Flipkart we miss no opportunity to celebrate our accomplishments. While we work hard, we party harder which helps us work hard again
What you ll do:
Owner of a functional area from product conception to delivery
- Design and code independently in multiple tech components related to functional area
- Take Non-functional requirement (Reliability & Availability, Scale, horizontal scalability) and Tech stack
- decisions
- Own code base quality
- Thinking and creating tools / platforms, distributed systems
- Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scope
- Work with machine learning experts to design and implement ML framework / platforms and interfaces that interact with data/ML platforms
- Mentor junior members
What you ll need:
- Expert level experience in building complex and scalable solutions and mentoring junior engineers.
- Strong object oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
- The ability to do deep problem solving and build elegant, maintainable solutions to complex problems.
- Experience leading multi-engineer projects and mentoring junior engineers
- Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platform
- Comprehensive operational experience including, optimizations, deployments and tuning servers like apache/mysql/tomcat/solr
- Prior experience in working with Agile software methodologies (XP, Scrum), TDD and Continuous Integration(CI/CD) a plus.
Must Haves:
- Extensive and expert programming experience in any one programming language (Java, Python / Py-Spark, C/C and SQL; strong OO skills preferred).
- A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
- Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert design into code fluently, optimise the code for latency; Good skills to write unit / integration tests with reasonable coverage of code / interfaces – TDD is a plus; Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming and dealing with large amounts of data.
- Intimate understanding and hands on experience of using computer vision and machine learning libraries such as Tensorflow , Torch, Caffe etc. Practical knowledge of model training, tuning and evaluation.
- Experience in machine learning and deep learning concepts such as Supervised/ Unsupervised/semi-supervised learning, CNN for classification, RNN for time series data analysis, Object detection and classification is a plus
- BTech, MTech, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
- 5-8 years and above exposure in the art of writing codes and solving problems for large scale.
- Strong plus if code contributions done to an open-source deep learning community that includes coding, testing submitting patches, code/design reviews, writing validation scripts
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