Associate Architect

**About Team**

**You will be a part of: Storefront (SF)**

If you are enthusiastic to work on Myntra Storefront customer facing technology platform built for extremely high scale, working on cutting-edge open source technologies, designing & architecting highly performant fault tolerant systems serving 10s of Millions of requests each day scaling to 100s of millions of requests on high sale events then Myntra Storefront is the right place to be.

The SF team at Myntra operates within distinct verticals which are (Storefront - Services Platform, Storefront Platforms for personalization & Store Channels (Client Apps).

**Roles and Responsibilities**
- Own the architecture of Myntra’s new product platforms to drive business results.
- To drive and own the architecture and design of some of the most advanced & complex software systems / products in the industry to create company wide impact.
- Help build, mentor and coach a team of very talented Engineers, Architects, Quality engineers, System Operation Engineers and DevOps engineers in architectural and design best practices.
- Fair understanding for distributed systems, cloud service development, deployment and delivery.
- Accountable for the design, for the ease of evolution, quality of the systems, performance, scaling, and availability characteristics and limitations of the systems.
- Envision and develop the long-term architectural direction, with emphasis on platforms/ reusable components while adopting a nimble delivery process. Establish structures and processes that ensure a high level of quality and reliability and extensibility of deliverables.
- Drive the creation of next generation extensible web, mobile and fashion commerce platforms, security protocols, customization and tools to support continuous scaling, internationalization and platform extensions
- Drive code and design reviews of components / systems / products in scope and drive the architectural governance for them.
- Set directional paths for the teams/department for adoption of new technology stacks for solving business problems.
- Experience in multiple technology domains and represent Myntra in external technical forums
- Work with product management, business stakeholders and other engineering leaders to help define mid-term, long-term roadmaps and shape business directions
- Initiate and deliver leadership training within the engineering organization, including training new managers, and drive the growth of leaders to create a strong leadership bench

**Qualifications & Experience**
- 10+ years of experience in software product development.
- Must have a degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Hands-on with coding and system design skills
- Experience of leading the architecture and delivery in a startup/e-commerce ecosystem within a high growth & matrix environment.
- Successfully architected and led technology for consumer facing products in the global market along with being an efficient proficient problem-solver who envisions business and technical perspectives to develop workable solutions.
- Exposure to leading product development end-end (portfolio to delivery, re-architectures).
- Hands-on technology experience building and running large scale systems handling multi-million sessions/transactions per day.
- Experience in large scale Database systems like RDBMS & NoSQL stores and messaging queues.
- Design/development experience in building massively large scale distributed internet systems and products
- Programming skills in Java/GO and expertise in multi-threading and performance oriented programming.
- Experience and knowledge of open source software, frameworks and broader cutting edge technologies around server side development in Java
- Fair understanding of object-oriented programming, concurrency and fundamentals of computer-science.