Software Development Engineer IV

Responsibilities:
Research, design, and build highly reliable, available, and scalable platforms.
Complete ownership of Service/Services that your team is responsible for.
Lead by example, mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.
Platform components as libraries, utilities, and services and promote reuse.
Own large technical deliverables and execute them in an exemplary way.
Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly.
Drive the team's technical roadmap in collaboration with engineering and product.
Requirements:
Deep expertise in at least one programming language and tech stack.
Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions.
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) is a plus.
BTech, MTech, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent). Or high technical acumen and rich technical experience.
Experience in building data-driven web application design and development is a plus.
Expert-level experience in building scalable, large, and complex business applications using some of the above technologies and mentoring junior engineers.
Apart from all the general benefits of best-in-industry compensation, equity, healthcare, etc., Flipkart prides itself in calling out the big hand for you to be.
Great Work, Great People, and a Great environment. We call ourselves an incubator for engineers where you get all the optimal conditions to do and experience your best.
Previous work experience: 7+ years of experience.
Skills/ Tech Stack:
Deep expertise with any or combination of programming languages: Java, C++, C#, Ruby, PHP, any object-oriented high-level proprietary or open source language with strong programming constructs. We are not skill-specific but go by strength in competencies.
Strong System Characterization and identification of technical requirements.
Distributed Systems Architecture, components modeling, data flow, Scaling, and managing large pieces of data.
Articulating system requirements, problem comprehension, and identifying high-level building blocks.
Non-functional requirements (NFRs) include scalability, fault tolerance, high availability, slashing, replication, load balance, application-level security, etc.
Architectural and Design Choices, Deep knowledge of one or more tech stacks, and identify alternative tech choices and trade-offs.
Strong problem-solving skills, Identify feasible alternatives, and freeze on the optimal choice of data structures and advanced algorithms.
Ability to work in fuzzy environments and complex environments.
Able to take high ownership of complex system components and drive it to the next level.
Machine Coding (Able to write modular and functionally complete object-oriented code, NFR implementation, abstractions, separation of concerns, concurrency and thread safety, extensibility, hooks, etc).
Good exposure both with tech breadth and tech depth.
Good skills in Metrics and Monitoring.

Experience
8-12 yrs