Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

Valued at over $35B, acquired by Walmart 6 years ago, Flipkart is the fastest growing and the most promising company in the online retail in India today and expected to be one of the biggest and utmost exciting IPOs taken public by Walmart in the next couple of years. As an emerging leading technology company, Flipkart is relying on AI for its domination of online retail in India, while contributing its knowledge to the worldwide success of Walmart as well.

About Flipkart Israel:

Flipkart has made a strategic decision to establish an Israeli center that will spearhead the mother company’s R&D in machine learning, optimization algorithms and predictive analysis. The center is leading multiple projects such as price optimization systems, ML-based marketplace platform and innovative algorithm development.

What’s the team like?

Lead by successful entrepreneurs that are leading the activities in a fast-paced start-up-like fashion, our team consists of software engineers and tech science academic talents who have already commercially deployed multiple cutting-edge solutions for challenging optimization and machine learning problems. By joining our team, you will enjoy a highly dynamic work environment while being supported by the biggest resources in the High-Tech world, knowing that every successful solution developed in the center will be immediately used by a hundred million shoppers and hundreds of thousands of vendors using the Flipkart’s platform.

Job/Project opportunities:

End to end price optimization and management system for Flipkart - the most comprehensive and innovative solution for pricing in the online retail world, for pricing of tens of millions of consumer products, for hundreds of millions of shoppers, based on ML algorithms and predictive analysis.

ML-based competitive intelligence platform for business and sellers, generating insight for the products sold on Flipkart, managing and servicing hundreds of thousands of sellers.

Big data and high scale services running on public cloud.

Significant new challenging projects are continuously launched in our center.

Job responsibilities:

Upgrade and maintain the infrastructure of large scale, mission critical, core software systems.

Support huge scale, self-redundant data gathering systems.

Develop and maintain high scale backend data pipelines.

Re-architecture code and DB into micro services

Deploy and maintain CI-CD tooling

Work with engineers and PMs in the HQ office in Bangalore

Skills and qualifications:

6+ years experience in developing and deploying high scale production services

Experience in developing Python back-end software development.

Experience with relational DB (preferably MySQL).

Independent, self learner.

Team player. Excellent communication skills.

Advantage:

Data mining, cloud platform (GCP ,Azure).

B.Sc. in Computer Science from a leading academic institute.