Software Development Engineer II

Software Development Engineer II - Python, PySpark, SQL

You will be responsible for building a highly-scalable and extensible robust application. This position reports to the Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Align Sigmoid with key Client initiatives

  • Interface daily with customers across leading Fortune 500 companies to understand strategic requirements

  • Ability to understand business requirements and tie them to technology solutions

  • Open to work from client location as per the demand of the project / customer.

• Facilitate in Technical Aspects

  • Develop and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using Java technologies.

  • Excellent experience in Application development and support, integration development and quality assurance.

• Provide technical leadership and manage it day to day basis

  • Interface daily with customers across leading Fortune 500 companies to understand strategic requirements

• Stay up-to-date on the latest technology to ensure the greatest ROI for customer & Sigmoid

  • Hands on coder with good understanding on enterprise level code.

  • Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems

  • Experience in defining technical requirements, data extraction, data transformation, automating jobs, productionizing jobs, and exploring new big data technologies within a Parallel Processing environment

• Culture

  • Must be a strategic thinker with the ability to think unconventional / out:of:box.

  • Analytical and solution driven orientation.

  • Raw intellect, talent and energy are critical.

  • Entrepreneurial and Agile : understands the demands of a private, high growth company.

  • Ability to be both a leader and hands on "doer".

Qualifications: -

• 3-5 year track record of relevant work experience and a computer Science or a related technical discipline is required

• Experience in development of Enterprise scale applications and capable in developing framework, design patterns etc. Should be able to understand and tackle technical challenges, and propose comprehensive solutions.

• Experience with functional and object-oriented programming, Java (Preferred) or Python is a must.

• Hand-On knowledge in Map Reduce, Hadoop, PySpark, Hbase and ElasticSearch.

• Development and support experience in Big Data domain

• Experience with database modelling and development, data mining and warehousing.

• Unit, Integration and User Acceptance Testing.

• Effective communication skills (both written and verbal)

• Ability to collaborate with a diverse set of engineers, data scientists and product managers

• Comfort in a fast-paced start-up environment. 

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience in Agile methodology.

• Proficient with SQL and its variation among popular databases.

• Experience working with large, complex data sets from a variety of sources.