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Job description
Location: Bengaluru, KA, India Department: Information Technology
Job Description
The candidate will lead the technical roadmap for the data platform team, which consists of 5-10 talented but possibly inexperienced team members.
The candidate will typically perform the following roles
Lay out the technical roadmap for the next n months from time to time
Mentor junior engineers in the form of code reviews and knowledge sharing about coding and design best practices
Coding and system design for new features and bug fixes
Take care of Operations excellence by monitoring production system
Qualifications
The role requires a strong technical knowledge on several fronts
Required
Job Location is Bangalore. Please do not apply if you're not based in Bangalore, or willing to relocate to Bangalore
Expertise in Java is required. Please do not apply without having worked hands-on in Java for at least 6 years in enterprise projects.
Candidate should be aware of dependency injection and how it is used in unit testing frameworks.
Candidates should have working knowledge of Java best practices, as laid out in (for example) "Effective Java by Josh Bloch".
Candidates should have experience in writing multi-threaded java programs and should be aware of such things as the java memory model.
Candidates should be aware of multi threading best practices as specified in (for example) "Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz etc"
Candidates require a strong working knowledge of linux based systems. This includes both theoritical knowledge as laid out in (for example) "linux system programming by Robert Love" as well as practical experience in linux system monitoring as laid out in (for example) "Systems Performance by Brendan Gregg"
Depth of experience in SQL and PostgreSQL database.
Preferable
Good working knowledge on kubernetes
Experience in Google Cloud Platform and its data analytics products like BigQuery etc
Previous experience working in a data platform team will be helpful
Experience with Apache Flink
Company Description
Cermati is a financial technology (fintech) startup based in Indonesia. Cermati simplifies the process of finding and applying for financial product by bringing everything online so people can shop around for financial products online and can apply online without having to physically visit a bank.
Our team hailed from Silicon Valley Tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Sofi as well as Indonesian startups such as Doku, Touchten. We have graduates from well known universities such as Universitas Indonesia, ITB, Stanford, University of Washington, Cornell and many others. We are building a company with the same culture of openness, transparency, drive and meritocracy as Silicon Valley companies. Join us in our cause to build a world-class fintech company in Indonesia.
Most IT Jobs posts in Bangalore ask for 3–6 years of experience (41% of 3141 that say).
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Questions about this job
What is the salary for this Senior Software Engineer - Backend Java job?
The post does not state the pay. As an estimate, comparable posts on CoreHRx advertise ₹14L – ₹25L a year (typical for IT Jobs in Bangalore, 288 posts).
Where is this job based?
In Bangalore.
What kind of job is this?
It is a full time job.
How do I apply?
You apply on Cermati.com's website. CoreHRx takes you there after you sign in.
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