Software Development Engineers

Location: Pune

Position Summary

Our client is seeking a talented Software Development Engineer to join our team. You’ll work on an agile team in the big data arena, building the infrastructure to support AudienceScience Gateway, a global media buying platform using real-time bidding and behavioral targeting technologies. We currently handle upwards of 9 billion requests per day, aggregating all of this data on our Hadoop clusters. Distributed systems experience a big plus and Hadoop experience an even bigger plus.

Essential functions

Work with Chief Architect to design and build scalable, efficient, distributed systems to meet business objectives following best practices for quality, testability and operability.

Perform code reviews.

Provide third-tier support for production systems.

Knowledge, skills and abilities required

Outstanding coding chops in Java.

Good understanding of algorithms, data structures, performance optimization techniques and object oriented programming.

Great design and problem solving skills, with a strong bias for quality and engineering excellence at scale.

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Experience and preference for working within an Agile/Scrum environment.

The ability to understand business issues, spot weak areas in requirements and work towards holistic solutions to big underlying business problems.

Ability to work without a great deal of oversight, managing your own priorities and objectives when necessary.

Drive to investigate new technologies and technical hurdles independently, and be able to clearly communicate your recommendations and solutions.