Flipkart is committed to transforming commerce in India through technology innovations, customer-centric features, a diverse category landscape, and a world-class supply chain, serving over 350 million customers and 150 million products across 80+ categories. The Shopping Experience Platform organization enables the end-to-end shopping funnel, from intent creation to transaction closure, leveraging AI/ML, personalization, and scalable systems. Platforms like Product Indexes, Catalog, Order Management, and User Insight Engine support the shopping journey, with teams solving complex problems at scale. Engineering Managers (EMs) lead diverse engineering groups, setting long-term vision, partnering with stakeholders, and driving technical leadership to platformize systems across Flipkart’s ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, develop and provide hands-on leadership for top-notch engineers and leads.
- Create clear career paths for team members to help them grow with regular and deep mentoring
- Attract and retain top talent keeping long term goals in mind
- Drive strategy and vision across teams in a rapidly evolving environment
- Work closely with diverse stakeholders and enable them by providing scalable and quality technology solutions.
- Facilitate platform solutions that span beyond the team and across the ecosystem
- Take accountability for moving the key business metrics within your area
- Provide thought partnership to the product team and ensure collaboration among product, engineering, and business operation teams.
- Drive agility in execution, create a strong team culture of responsiveness by leading by example
- Own decision making around prioritization for better predictability
Requirements
- B.Tech, M.Tech or any other similar qualification with at least 10+ years of experience in building cutting edge products with 2+ years in people management
- Good understanding of technology and architecture in a highly scalable and available setup
- Strong experience handling large data (batch and real-time), workflows and scheduling, building pluggable frameworks and systems, strong abstraction, and design skills.
- Proven track record of delivering products with high quality, familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools
- Strong partnership with product and business teams that demonstrates effective collaboration and communication across multiple stakeholders
- Exposure to different design & architecture patterns as we build systems in SOA. Exposure to batch processing & near real time pipelines to transition data between multiple systems
Additional details
- Technologies used: Java, Python, Scala, Mysql, Redis, Elastic Search, Spark, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Druid, MongoDB, Aerospike, Kafka, RabbitMQ, nodejs, React Native, Reactjs, Reactive Programming with Vert.x & Spring webflux, Google Cloud Platform, K8s.
- Flipkart is a part of the Walmart-owned Flipkart Group, which also includes group companies Flipkart Health+, Myntra, and Cleartrip.
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