Lead Software Engineer - Python - Pune @ 6Sense

A Lead Software Engineer Campaigns at 6sense will have the opportunity to

• Deliver projects end-to-end from a technical perspective and perform detailed design, coding, unit testing, performance testing / analysis, troubleshooting bug fixing, as and when required.

• Develop cutting-edge solutions to maximize the performance, scalability, and distributed processing capabilities of the system.

• Build micro services and their deployment processes.

• Write performant REST APIs for both internal and external consumption.

• Work on scaling issues to 10x our data-handling capability over the coming year

• Write custom UDFs, UDAFs, UDTFs to simplify complex operations.

• Participate in writing applicable patents for your ground-breaking work.

• Promote and set examples for high code quality like unit testing, good variable naming, modularity, etc.

• Mentor junior engineers and onboard new engineers

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership for products/features you own.

• Own products/features at multiple levels: code, data, metrics, reduction of support frequency, etc.

• Work with other teams on cross-functional, multi-team projects

• Anticipate and pre-empt deployment or down-stream issues ahead of feature release.

• Assess the strengths and limits of the current technical design, communicate, plan and prioritize improvements or redesigns to resolve those limits.

• Work with EM, PM on team planning and roadmap

Required qualifications and must have skills

• 6+ years of professional, recent coding experience in Python (ready to code in week 1)

• 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.

• Familiarity with Django, Django admin, Django REST Framework

• Can take vague requirements and move toward an actionable design by coordinating with engineers, product managers, UX, data analysts, data scientists, QA, etc.

• Experience with SQL with an understanding of joins, group by, partitioning, clustering, skewness, and analytic functions

• Strong fundamentals in data structure, algorithm, design patterns and object-oriented programming

• Comfortable with Unix / Linux command line

• Proficiency with Git as a version control system

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills

• Familiarity with docker and container platforms like Mesos and Kubernetes

• Experience leading or mentoring technical team members.

Nice to have Skills

• AdTech experience in an agile environment is strongly preferred (Ad products, Ad platform, Ad systems, Ad serving etc.)

• Experience with SQL query optimization

• Familiarity with UI frameworks like AngularJS/ReactJS and Redux with strong focus on usability design

• Experience with writing Hive / Presto UDFs

• Application benchmarking and optimization

• Multi-processing and concurrency

Interpersonal Attributes

• You understand that software engineering work does not end with the code.

• You can work independently but coordinate effectively with your team.

• You take ownership of projects and drive them to conclusion.

• You are a good communicator and are capable of not just doing the work but teaching others and explaining the why behind complicated technical decisions.

• You are not afraid to roll up your sleeves: This role will evolve over time, and we will want you to evolve with it.