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

e.

About the

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

mpact.

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

ommitment.

Qu

• 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

• e.
  
  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