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Senior Software Developer (Backend)
About the job Senior Software Developer (Backend)
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Take over full responsibility for the delivery and quality of backend development projects, handling TBs of data every day.
• Collaborate closely with the data science and merchant integration teams to translate requirements, integrations and algorithms into data pipelines
• Develop, test and deploy code that is part of a product used by tens of millions of people across South East Asia every month
• Maintain a high quality standard of our data ingestion and processing pipelines, reliably handling data in many different formats and structures
• Drive to keep improving programming and design processes and techniques.
• Quickly debug and analyze issues that affect the reliability and performance of our catalog update and scraping process
• Deliver incremental results live on our site on a weekly basis with the support of a cross-functional agile team.
REQUIREMENTS
• A Bachelor's Degree/Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related subject
• 5-7 years of experience delivering big data solutions on tight schedules in a company known for best-in-class products
• Proven experience working in a multi-national environment with agile methodologies (SCRUM, CI/CD, TDD, LESS)
• Hands-on experience building applications using PHP7, Python 3 and libraries from the related ecosystems.
• Hands-on experience in Big Data software development technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Kafka) and exposure to resource/cluster management technologies.
• Experience with Big data design, ETL (Extraction, Transformation & Load), architecting efficient software designs for Big data platform.
• Deep experience with the latest NoSQL database technologies like Elastic Search and Cassandra.
• Familiar with modern architectural patterns of highly scalable systems like horizontal scaling and queueing systems
• Unmatched attention to detail when it comes to optimizing performance of backend processes and services, never satisfied with the smallest annoyances
• Expert in Amazon Web Services, container technologies (Docker) and deployment frameworks (Terraform, Ansible)
• Familiar with best practices in Development Lifecycles, Source Control tools like Git, familiarity with the Linux command line interface