Project Role: Custom Software Engineer

Project Role Description: Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.

Must have skills: Python (Programming Language)

Good to have skills: NA

Minimum 12 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification: 15 years full time education

Summary:

As a Custom Software Engineer, you will engage in the development of custom software solutions that are designed to meet specific business needs. Your typical day will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, code, and enhance various components across systems or applications. You will utilize modern frameworks and agile practices to ensure the delivery of scalable and high-performing solutions, while also addressing any challenges that arise during the development process. Your role will require a proactive approach to problem-solving and a commitment to continuous improvement in software development practices.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Expected to be an SME.
• Lead a team of Platform and Infrastructure Engineers, defining technical approaches and guiding implementation decision-making
• Draft and own low-level (physical) design artefacts, standards and principles to specify and guide Cloud Platform development, testing and deployment
• Work closely with Platform Architects and Product Owners to shape implementation plans for designed platform components, including acting as voice of Platform Engineering within Design review forums (TDA)
• Provide technical oversight of engineering delivery and own the quality and robustness of the software delivered
• Strong communication skills, written & verbal
• Excellent stakeholder management, able to communicate technical concepts clearly to less technical stakeholders and positively influence platform prioritization decisions
• Confidence and depth of knowledge to advocate effectively for Engineering designs, standards and principles
• Pragmatic and outcome-driven, with a strong focus on regular rapid incremental value delivery
• Technical confidence and ability to mentor and guide junior engineers

Professional & Technical Skills:

• Strong Software Engineering skills, inc. knowledge of best practices, SWE design patterns, testing strategies, branching strategies.
• Experience in building robust, reusable data platform components using industry-recognized software engineering techniques
• Experience in operating as a Data Engineer in a modern Cloud Data Platform
• Strong Python skills, inc. packaging and publishing
• Strong Py Spark Data Engineering skills, both at individual pipeline and platform levels
• Ideally experience with Open-source Apache Spark on YARN (GCP Dataproc / AWS EMR / Azure HDInsight)
• Good knowledge of GCP infrastructure, (ideally inc. Data plex, Dataproc, Big Lake Meta store, Big Query, Artifact Registry, GCS)
• Knowledge of CI/CD (including Cloud Build)
• Knowledge and hands-on experience of containerization approaches/principles (Docker, Cloud Run)
• Knowledge of bash / Linux experience
• Good familiarity with Terraform / Terr grunt skills and best practices, esp. in creating standardized, reusable modules and optimizing state

Additional Information:

• The candidate should have minimum 12 years of experience in Python (Programming Language).
• This position is based at our Bengaluru office.
• A 15 years full time education is required.

15 years full time education

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