Software Architect

Responsibilities:

Participating in code reviews, design reviews, and 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, and performance in your team.

Experiment with new and relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you can create.

Responsible for the architecture of your product, ensuring it is aligned with the requirements and the charter.

Creating architectures and designs for new solutions around existing and new problem spaces at Flipkart.

Requirements:

Technical Breadth: Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces and technologies.

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 exercises and improve coding standards across large codebases.

Good knowledge, understanding, and experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures.

Awareness of pitfalls and use cases for a large variety of solutions.

Experience with high-performance web-scale and real-time response systems.

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 for 3+ years.

Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments, where boundaries aren't clearly defined.