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About the role:

As an Associate Software Developer, you will be a contributor of a Scrum/DevOps team focusing on analyzing, developing, testing, and supporting highly complex application software build on Big Data

Your primary objective is to ensure project goals are achieved and are aligned with business objectives. You will also work closely with your Scrum team and program team to test, develop, refine and implement quality software in production via standard Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities:

Assist in building and testing Cloud-based applications for new and existing backend systems to help facilitate development teams to migrate to the cloud with an emphasis on quality, best-practice coding standards, and cost-effectiveness

Build platform reusable code and components that could be used by multiple project teams.

Provide cloud integration development support to various project teams.

Leverage modern design patterns and architectural principles to build platform reusable code and components that can be used across projects and teams

Write both unit and integration tests, and develop automation tools for daily tasks

Support product owner in defining future stories and tech lead in defining technical requirements for new initiatives

Build rapid technical prototypes for early customer validation of new technologies

Collaborate effectively with Data Science to understand, translate, and integrate methodologies into engineering build pipelines

Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to align development objectives with broader business goals

Key Skills:

Domain Expertise

Up to 3 years of hands-on software development with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or similar field

Understanding of cloud architecture / cloud implementation principles

Familiarity with storage, network, computer services, multi-zone, region-based design

A quick learner, who can pick up new technologies, program languages and frameworks in a short span of time

Technical Skills:

Mid level Experience in software development using programming languages & tools/services: Java or Python or Scala and SQL.

Experience in big data processing tools/languages using Spark Scala is a plus

Knowledge on Unix/Linux OS, commands, shell scripting, python, JSON, YAML.

Knowledge of AWS S3, PostgreSQL or MySQL

Agile scrum experience in application development

Understanding of Gitlab /Bitbucket.

Knowledge in Compute: EC2, EMR, AWS Lambda is a plus

Exposure to orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow or similar is a plus

Deployment and automation: Terraform, Cloud Formation is a plus.

AWS Certification is a plus.

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