Mobile Architect

Architects at Flipkart are responsible for driving Technology & Good Practices in Engineering in their respective teams. We are a rapidly growing & constantly improving organization. At our scale and with our culture of innovation, you will be helping us in solving some of the most interesting problems in mobile app as well as e-commerce domain. We seek very high levels of ownership in all individuals, especially roles like this – ownership of the system is in your team and their impact on the entire Flipkart ecosystem.

AppsCore team at Flipkart strives to create solutions that enhance agility and efficiency of Flipkart UI team so that our customers get to experience our new features at quickly as possible at Flipkart’s scale. At the same time we invest in creating and adopting tools, frameworks and processes that ensure that the quality of apps and user experience remain among the best in the industry.

Roles & Responsibilities (What you’ll do): Going beyond your role and contributing to

making the organization & business better is an expectation. Actively participate in development

along with team members for as much as 75% of their time, creating modules & systems that

can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.

• Participating in code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions.
• Being responsible for Scaling, Performance & Quality for the team.
• Setting up best practices to help the team achieve the above and constantly thinking about
  
  

improving the technology use are your responsibilities. Driving the adoption of these best

practices around coding, design, quality, performance in your team.

• Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring
  
  

yourself on the impact you are able to create.

• Implementation of long term technology vision for your team.
• Responsible for the architecture of your product; ensuring it is aligned to the requirements
  
  

and the charter.

• Active participant in technology forums & represent Flipkart in external forums.
• Creating architectures & designs for new solutions around existing and new problem
  
  

spaces at Flipkart.

• Drive technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them.
  
  

Skills Required (What You’ll Need)

• Quick & Excellent Problem Solving skills for complex large scale problems.
• Good knowledge, in-depth understanding of one of the mobile (iOS, android) and/or web platforms.
• Technical Breadth – Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies.
• Very Strong System design and OO skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and
  
  

operate at the right levels of abstraction.

• High self motivation - This is a must for platform team since the architects are expected to come up with bottom up ideas with the team and take them to completion with measurable impact with the help of EM counterparts.
• Solid coding skills with ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercise & improve
  
  

coding standards across large code bases.

• Good understanding & experience of high performance web scale &; real-time response
  
  

systems.

• Exposure to complete product development cycles – From inception to production to scaling
  
  

up, supporting new requirements,re-architectures - the Architects should have seen it all.

Should have been part of scalable product development cycles with either large data handling or

large transaction processing exposure for 3+ years.

• Excellent Mentoring skills – Be the technical mentor to your team.
• Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments – where boundaries aren’t clearly
  
  

Defined.

Why work with us?

This is a highly dynamic team in which bunch of highly motivated and talented set of individuals strive to really make a difference, break the boundaries of app development and create solutions that solve problems at our speed and scale. You’ll fit right in if you have a neck for going beyond the surface and to figure out ways to adopt or create solutions that maximise their impact and help us achieve our goals.