Senior Software Engineer

About the Company

Flipkart is India’s largest e-commerce marketplace with a registered customer base of over 100 million. In the 10 years since it started, Flipkart has come to offer over 80 million products across 80+ categories, including Smartphones, Books, Media, Consumer Electronics, Furniture, Fashion and Lifestyle. Launched in October 2007, Flipkart is known for its path-breaking services like Cash on Delivery, No cost EMI and a 10-day replacement policy. Flipkart was the pioneer in offering services like In-a-Day Guarantee (65 cities) and Same-Day-Guarantee (13 cities) at scale. With over 1,00,000 registered sellers, Flipkart has redefined the way brands and MSME’s do business onlin

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Role

The Senior Software Development Engineer’s core responsibilities include working on highly-maintainable and unit tested software components/system that address real world problems. You will be working in a fast paced and agile work environment delivering quality solutions that have immediate business i

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Responsi**

• bilities

  Extensive and expert programming experience in any one programming language (strong OO skills p

• referred).Deep experience in at least one general programming language (Java, Ruby, Clojure, Scala, C/C++
• and SQL).A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and softwa
• re design.Have a penchant for solving complex and interesting
• problems.Worked in start-up like environment with high levels of ownership and c

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• alifications

  BTech, MTech in Computer Science or related technical discipline (o

r equivalent).

• Required Skills

  Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert design i

• nto code fluently.Good skills to write unit & integration tests with reasonable coverage of code & interface
• s - TDD is a plus.Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing large complex business flows and dealing with hu
• ge amount of data.Experience with multi-threading and concur
• rency programming.5 years and above exposure in the art of writing codes and solving problem

s for large scal

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  Preferred Skills

  The farsightedness it takes to look at business problems critically from more

• than one perspective.The capability to craft object-oriented models and design data structures, implement business logic and data models with
• suitable class design.Ability to break-down larger/fuzzier problems into smaller ones in the
• scope of the product.Sound soft skills to gel with colleagues from other teams in order to harness th
• e development process.An understanding of the industry’s coding standards and an ability to create appropriate te

chnical documentation.