Solutions Architect at SaharaGo

Responsibilities:

• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
• Be responsible for scaling, performance and quality for the team.
• Build (and open source) data processing, storage and fetch systems at the high volume scale with the lowest cost/GB while still responding in milliseconds at the 99th percentile.
• Optimize algorithms which influence personalization, Order processing, payments, fraud prevention etc
• Driving the adoption of these best practices around coding, design, quality, performance in your team.
• Experiment with new and relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while
• Create platforms, reusable libraries, and utilities wherever applicable
• measuring yourself on the impact you are able to create.
• Implement long term technology vision for your team.

Skills & Requirement:

• Deep expertise in more than one programming language and tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.
• Substantial experience in building large complex business applications
• Strong object oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
• Experience leading multi-engineer projects and mentoring junior engineers
• Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux

Platform

• Deep understanding of data-driven web application design and development
• Deep understanding of design patterns, optimizations, deployments and tuning servers
• like apache/mysql/tomcat/solr
• Prior experience in working with Agile software methodologies (XP, Scrum)
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development.