Software Architect

About The Role

Architects at Flipkart are responsible for driving Technology and Good Practices in Engineering in their respective teams. We are a rapidly growing and constantly improving organization. We seek very high levels of ownership in all individuals, especially roles like this – ownership of systems in your team and their impact on the entire Flipkart ecosystem. Going beyond your role and contributing to make the organization and business better is an expectation. Actively participate in development along with team members for as much as 75% of their time, creating modules and systems that can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.

What You’ll Do

Participating in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions

• Being responsible for Scaling, Performance and Quality for the team
• Setting up best practices to help the team achieve the above and constantly thinking about improving technology use are your responsibilities. Driving the adoption of these best practices around coding, design, quality, performance in your team
• Experiment with new and relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you are able to create
• Implementation of long term technology vision for your team Charter
• Be the technical mentor to your team, drive technology and tool choices and be responsible for them
• Creating architectures and designs for new solutions around existing and new problem spaces at Flipkart
  
  

What You’ll Need

Architectural and Design Choices, Deep knowledge on one or more tech stacks, identify

alternative tech choices and trade-offs

• Identifying feasible alternatives and freeze on the optimal choice of data structures and advanced algorithms
• Very Strong System design and OO skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction.
• Solid coding skills with the ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercise and improve coding standards across large codebases.
• Good knowledge, understanding and experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier
  
  

architectures.

• Experience in designing and building large distributed systems
• Experience and exposure to a variety of large scale persistent systems including large databases.
• Exposure to complete product development cycles – From inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements,re-architectures - the Architects should have seen it all. Should have been part of scalable product development cycles with either large data handling or large transaction processing exposure