Principal Architect - eCommerce

What we would like you to do:

Be responsible for driving technology and best practices in engineering in their teams.

Show high levels of ownership in all individuals, especially roles like this - ownership of systems in your team and their impact on the entire Flipkart eco-system.

Go beyond your role and contribute to make the organization and business better.

Participate in development along with team members for as much as 75% of your time

Participate in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.

Be responsible for scaling, performance and quality for the team.

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.

Implement long term technology vision for your team.

Active participant in technology forums and represent Flipkart in external forums.

What experience we'd like you to have:

- Deep expertise in more than one programming language and tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.

- Substantial experience in building large complex business applications

- Strong object oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces

- Experience leading multi-engineer projects and mentoring junior engineers

- Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux platform

- Deep understanding of data-driven web application design and development

- Deep understanding of design patterns, optimizations, deployments and tuning servers like apache/mysql/tomcat/solr

- Prior experience in working with Agile software methodologies (XP, Scrum)

Knowledge of Test Driven Development

- BTech, MTech, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).

- The experience of having been a software engineer for at least 7 years.