Senior Software Engineer

Under minimal supervision, the Senior Software Engineer assists in developing software products and works on improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development life cycle.

Essential Job Functions:


* Works on broad problems of diverse scope that require decision making and creativity


* Receives general guidance but work is done independently and impacts team level goals


* Defines technical solutions or operational processes to improve efficiency


* Possesses a solid understanding and familiarity of systems and processes within job area


* Delivers many of the team’s goals on time and with a high standard of quality.


* Preemptively identifies and resolves technical risks before they jeopardize the project.


* Demonstrated understanding in computer science fundamentals - Algorithm design, Problem solving, Complexity analysis and data structures.


* Resolves cross-team dependencies earlier to ensure the successful execution of the project.

 

Engineering/Operations Excellence:


* Solves complex business problems, situations, processes based on existing theories of frameworks


* Implements ways to simplify code and infrastructure.

Prioritizes tasks that lead to lower system and infrastructure maintenance and migration costs with meaningful and measurable impact.


* Examines problems from different perspectives and uses evaluation, judgement, and interpretation to select right course of action


* Helps team identify, prioritize, and deliver on clear short, mid and long-term goals aligned to the business.


* Accepts risk and uncertainty of business change as normal


* Builds productive and collaborative working relationships with senior internal/external partners to remove barriers and identify shared goals and priorities


* Actively seeks diverse perspectives and works to engage others when communicating


* Demonstrates the culture of intelligence, integrity, and initiative in day-to-day actions with the team


* Avoids blame and solves the right problems, disagreeing and committing when necessary to move decisions forward 

Technical Skills (Beneficial):

Big Data technologies:


* Experience with Big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive & Trino


* Evaluate understanding of common issues like:


* Data skew and strategies to mitigate it.


* Working with massive data volumes in PetaBytes.


* Troublehshooting job failures due to resource limitations, bad data, scalability challenged.


* Look for real-world debugging and mitigation stories.

SQL Skills (Window Functions, Joins, Complex Queries):


* Assess comfort with SQL window functions, multi-table joins, aggregations.


* Provide examples or ask them to write/optimize SQL queries on the spot.


* Probe how they handle edge cases like NULLs, duplicates, ordering, etc.

Apache Spark (Development, Internals & Tuning):


* Test their understanding of Sp...