Lead Software Engineer

Company Description

When you’re one of us, you get to run with the best. For decades, we’ve been helping marketers from the world’s top brands personalize experiences for millions of people with our cutting-edge technology, solutions and services. Epsilon’s best-in-class identity gives brands a clear, privacy-safe view of their customers, which they can use across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions. We process 400+ billion consumer actions each day and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee, Epsilon India is now Great Place to Work-Certified™. Epsilon has also been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester, Adweek and the MRC. Positioned at the core of Publicis Groupe, Epsilon is a global company with more than 8,000 employees around the world. For more information, visit epsilon.com/apac or our LinkedIn page.

Job Description

CJ Affiliate is the leader in Affiliate Marketing. A division of Publicis Groupe. We take pride in our innovative technology, comprehensive data solutions and our people. We equip our teams with advanced tools, training and career development opportunities all to provide cutting edge solutions, strategies and support to deliver high quality results for our clients. We work in an energetic, results-oriented, collaborative, team environment that recognizes exceptional performance. As we evolve and grow as a business, so do you.

Do you want to work in a fun, smart, and energetic environment where you will be challenged, rewarded AND inspired? Come work with top performers at CJ Affiliate to make a real difference in how top brands run their businesses. We are the world’s leading affiliate marketing network- we transform digital marketing with the help of big data and business intelligence. We help advertisers drive more sales and expand their reach- and we want to hear from you!

Job Description

Why we are looking for you

At Epsilon/CJ Affiliate, we run on our people’s ideas. It’s how we solve problems and exceed expectations. Our team is now growing, and we are on the lookout for talented individuals who always raise the bar by constantly challenging themselves.

What you will enjoy in this role

• Total experience: 8-12 years
• Should be through and through hands on : Java, Micro services Architecture, Spring boot, Oracle, MQ, Restful WS/SOAP WS, JMS, Spring, Hibernate, Eclipse, Tomcat, Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, ELK, AWS
• Should have worked as product/component or enterprise architect
• Should coach / groom/ upskills technical teams

What you will do

• Work closely with Architects, Project Manager / Onsite Leads and Developers
• Should own product component end-to-end until productions. 
• Product configuration in productions for HA and Scale.
• Work with onsite to understand product needs and articulate that through requirement and functional specifications, and through design playback sessions 
• Detailed design, Coding, Unit Testing, Performance testing / Analysis, Troubleshooting & Bug fixing, as and when required. 
• Document use cases, flow chart, sequence diagrams, class diagrams Individual contributor or lead teams of size 3 - 8 members to complete small application development or a module in big projects or a Proof of Concept. 
• Hands on coding skills Client interfacing for technical explanations and discussions
• Troubleshooting and resolution of product issues from production environment.
• Interacting with the Engineering for supporting/maintaining/designing backend infrastructure for product support.
• Automation of deployment, customization, upgrades and monitoring through DevOps tools meant for Cloud management.
• Performance tuning, monitoring, maintaining fault tolerant/HA infrastructure.
• Disaster recovery design, implementation, and maintenance.
• Participate in long-term strategies and scalability efforts.
• Build documentation of operating procedures and provide knowledge transfer.
• Lead/manage a team and provide timely updates and reports to senior management.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or have equivalent experience.
• 8-12 years of IT experience 
• Technical Skills:
  • Excellent hands-on coding skills in Java
  • Good understand of multithreading patterns, JVM configurations
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Ability to suggest usage design patterns and algorithms while following the best practices of software development.
  • Solid understanding of JEE web and app containers
  • Connection and Thread pools, memory management and configuration, balancing and scaling systems, tuning for scale and performance, security
  • Specific knowledge of Spring, Hibernate is a must.
  • Good knowledge on Big Data Technologies like Cassandra and Hadoop 
  • Build and deploy processes, CICD, automation
  • Knowledge of JavaScript UI frameworks is desirable (Angular, React, etc.)
  • Working experience on any SQL/No-sql database preferably MongoDB
  • Prior experience of TDD and strong adherance of Unit Tests
  • Proficient with version control, such as GitHub
• Other Skills:
  • Strong written + verbal communication
  • Good interpersonal skills, some experience in stakeholder management (PM’s, etc)
  • E2e Product Lifecycle Management experience
  • Understanding of Agile/Scrum practices
  • Good understanding of Technology landscape
  • Hands on – even as a manager
  • Good understanding of dev processes (quality, build, deploy strategies, etc)
  • Experience working in an Agile environment
  • Experience of building products.
• Nice to Have:
  • Virtualization and strong networking knowledge
  • Experience working in the cloud computing industry
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent work experience
  • Familiarity with concepts of Messaging using JMS

Additional Information

Epsilon is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunities by using reasonable efforts to attract, recruit, engage and retain qualified individuals of all ethnicities and backgrounds, including, but not limited to, women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities and any other underrepresented groups, traits or characteristics.

Publicis Groupe Commitment to Diversity & Equity Policy:

Publicis Groupe is deeply committed to diversity and inclusion in spirit and in action at every level of the organization. It reflects our core values and embodies our purpose of building a great company enabling human potential. We have a deep-rooted appreciation for how diversity of thought drives innovation, and we ground that value in a culture of collaboration and connected thinking.

• Diversity & inclusion are business imperatives on which Publicis Groupe will not negotiate. While fostering a work environment that is inclusive of all talent is a collective responsibility, it is leadership’s job to nurture the career aspirations and goals of all our talent. Promoting gender equality starts at the top and the Groupe will not tolerate anyone speaking for our organization who does not value the importance of inclusion. Publicis Groupe works very hard to champion diversity and will continue to insist that each agency’s leadership be champions of both diversity and inclusion.
• Our Core values “ VIVA LA DIFFERENC’E is based on the very aspect of celebrating differences 
• Our strategy focuses on bringing together teams with diverse perspectives, disciplines, and experiences, because diversity of thought best serves our clients and their customers who they aspire to impact

Equal Employment Commitment:

1. We provide equal opportunities to all our employees and to all eligible applicants for employment in our company. We do not unfairly discriminate on any ground, including race, caste, religion, color, ancestry, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or any other category protected by applicable law.
2. When recruiting, developing and promoting our employees, our decisions will be based solely on performance, merit, competence and potential.
3. We shall have fair, transparent and clear employee policies which promote diversity and equality, in accordance with applicable law and other provisions of this Code. These policies shall provide for clear terms of employment, training, development and performance management.