MakeMyTrip Hiring Principal Software Engineer 2022/23/24

Role & Responsibilities:

• Own end to end full life cycle development and operations of highly scalable platforms/components.
• Architecting and scaling engineering platform to reduce technical debt and improve performance and agility.
• Experience with various technology stacks, including web application development, middleware, integration, enterprise architecture.
• Foster culture of innovation and fast execution, leading by example and hands-on execution.
• Build best in class data/machine learned algorithms and platforms for solving complex problems.
• Interface with business & product team to define requirements, deliverables, and provide the necessary engineering expertise & support to ensure on-time delivery of product.
• Be the technical owner for a set of highly scalable platform components (like Auth & Device-Master platform, AB Experimentation platform, Gift card etc.,), micro services written in java, frontend applications (mobile & web), data related engineering initiatives and many more.
• Continue to develop and improve delivery processes.
• Commit to fostering a quality-focused development culture while leading managing a team of engineers, and QA.
• Lead the talent management effort for Technology, including hiring, developing, training and retaining a best-in-class team.

Requirements:

• Should be a hands-on technology person with eye for details and scale.
• Ability to multitask in an ambiguous and very dynamic start-up environment.
• Must possess traits of thriving to work in a start-up environment.
• Must have experience in developing applications using multiple stacks.
• Must have experienced scale in building web applications and SOA (micro services) based large scale setups
• Proven experience in architecture, design and delivery of data & scale intensive applications.
• Should be good on coming up with high-level & low-level design for problem statement and defend on design & tech choices.
• Must have curiosity and passion to solve challenging problems and keeping customer centricity at core.
• Should have excellent prioritization and project management skills
• Sound knowledge and experience working in a variety of agile frameworks and project tools (e.g. Atlassian, git)
• Expert knowledge in language (Java) and web technologies (e.g. JavaScript, CSS, HTML).
• Experience with modern web UI frameworks (e.g. React, Angular)
• Experience leading a QA / testing function and developing automation techniques to improve ongoing quality of delivery
• Experience of building high throughput, low latency web-services over Strings and Binary Protocols.
• Expert level knowledge of Data Sources from RDBMS to NoSQL (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra)
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Expertise in Linux.
• Experience with architecting systems for AWS is a big plus.
• Experience with web paradigms such as REST, Responsive Web Design, Test-driven
• Development (TDD), Dependency Injection etc.
• Understanding of data engineering and machine learning is a plus.