Architect

**Role Description**:Architects at Flipkart are responsible for driving Technology & Good Practices in Engineering in their respective teams. We are a rapidly growing & constantly improving organization. We seek very high levels of ownership in all individuals, especially roles like this - ownership of system is in your team and their impact on the entire Flipkart ecosystem.

**About Team**: Recommerce team builds horizontal end-to-end capabilities needed for exchange, sellback, refurbished, liquidation in the Flipkart ecosystem. We build cross cutting products for multiple user personas, Flipkart customers, category managers, delivery person, warehouse managers & used product buyers. For customers it enables affordability when buying new products and customers get fair value for their used products in a convenient manner. Recommerce also enables less affluent customers to buy refurbished branded products at lower price and provides trust needed to buy used products.

**Roles & Responsibilities (What you’ll do)**: Going beyond your role and contributing to

making the organization & business better is an expectation. Actively participate in development

along with team members for as much as 75% of their time, creating modules & systems that

can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.
- Participating in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
- Being responsible for Scaling, Performance & Quality for the team.
- Setting up best practices to help the team achieve the above and constantly thinking about

improving the technology use are your responsibilities. Driving the adoption of these best

practices around coding, design, quality, performance in your team.
- Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring

yourself on the impact you are able to create.
- Implementation of long term technology vision for your team.
- Responsible for the architecture of your product; ensuring it is aligned to the requirements

and the charter.
- Active participant in technology forums & represent Flipkart in external forums.
- Creating architectures & designs for new solutions around existing and new problem

spaces at Flipkart.
- Drive technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them.

**Skills Required (What you’ll need)**:

- Quick & Excellent Problem Solving skills for complex large scale problems.
- Technical Breadth - Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, 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 ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercise & improve

coding standards across large code bases.
- Good knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi
- tier architectures. Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions.
- Good understanding & experience of high performance web scale &; real-time response

systems.
- Good understanding & experience of Big data systems and architecture
- Experience & exposure to a variety of large scale persistent systems including large databases.
- 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.
- Excellent Mentoring skills - Be the technical mentor to your team.
- Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments - where boundaries aren’t clearly

defined.