Lead Data Engineer (Java expertise required)
Bengaluru · Senior
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Company Description
Cermati is a financial technology (fintech) startup based in Indonesia. Cermati simplifies the process of finding and applying for financial product by bringing everything online so people can shop around for financial products online and can apply online without having to physically visit a bank.
Our team hailed from Silicon Valley Tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Sofi as well as Indonesian startups such as Doku, Touchten. We have graduates from well known universities such as Universitas Indonesia, ITB, Stanford, University of Washington, Cornell and many others. We are building a company with the same culture of openness, transparency, drive and meritocracy as Silicon Valley companies. Join us in our cause to build a world class fintech company in Indonesia.
Job Description
The candidate will lead a technical team of 5-10 engineers in the data platform team. We can think of this role as that of a staff software engineer plus management.
Typical responsibilities will include
- People management, in the form of performance reviews, 1:1 session, mentoring and career growth for reportees
- Project management, in the form of timeline estimation, project planning, making sure deadlines are met, unblocking developers, etc
- Technical roadmap and planning - The candidate will work with senior software engineers to develop a technical roadmap as well as handle day to day operations
- Taking care of Oncall and Operational excellence by putting in place due processes like oncall rotation, monitoring and alerting sysems etc
- Hands on coding and System Design for selected features in the project
Qualifications
Required
- Candidates must be based in Bangalore only
- Expertise in Java is required. Please do not apply without having worked hands-on in Java for at least 5 years in big enterprise projects.
- Candidate should be aware of dependency injection and how it is used in unit testing frameworks.
- Candidates should have working knowledge of Java best practices, as laid out in (for example) "Effective Java by Josh Bloch".
- Candidates should have experience in writing multi-threaded java programs and should be aware of such things as the java memory model.
- Candidates should be aware of multi threading best practices as specified in (for example) "Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz etc"
- Candidates must be "People Smart". They should be able to provide humane leadership and have the ability to take tough decisions, while also being receptive to employee feedback
- Candidates require a strong working knowledge of linux based systems. This incluedes both theoritical knowledge as laid out in (for example) "linux system programming by Robert Love" as well as practical experience in linux system monitoring as laid out in (for example) "Systems Performance by Brendan Gregg"
- Depth of experience in SQL and PostgreSQL database.
Preferable
- Prior experience with People Management and Project Management. Although this is desirable, we will accept technically strong candidates who do not have prior management experience
- Good working knowledge on kubernetes
- Experience in Google Cloud Platform and its data analytics products like BigQuery etc
- Previous experience working in a data platform team will be helpful
- Experience with Apache Flink, Debezium for change data capture, Apache Nifi, Apache Airflow, DBT
Additional Information
The candidate should be willing to relocate to Bangalore.
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