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

About BU

The Product team forms the crux of our powerful platforms and connects millions of customers to the product magic. This team of innovative thinkers develop and build products that help Epsilon be a market differentiator. They map the future and set new standards for our products, empowered with industry best practices, ML and AI capabilities. The team passionately delivers intelligent end-to-end solutions and plays a key role in Epsilon’s success story.

Why we are looking for you

We are looking for Lead Software Engineer to work on groundbreaking multichannel SaaS Digital Marketing Platform that focuses on uniquely identify the customer’s patterns, effectively interact with them across channels and achieve a positive return on marketing investment (ROMI). The platform helps consolidate and integrates the features and functionality typically found in stand-alone services and channel-specific messaging platforms to give marketers a tightly integrated, easily orchestrated, insights-driven, cross channel marketing capability.

What you will enjoy in this role:

Primary role of the Lead Software Engineer is to envision and build internet scale services on Cloud using Java and Big Data stack in product teams with complete hands on. Drive long-term product visions with key technology and architecture decisions alongside DevOps evolution having both functional and non-functional requirements satisfied. Needs to have passion for building industry scale applications by writing good and scalable code / groom / upskills / coaches technical teams by working closely with Architects, Engineering Managers, and Developers.

What you will do:

The India Product Engineering team forms the crux of our powerful PeopleCloud platform and connects millions of customers. The 400+ strong product organization in Epsilon India, is a full-cycle Engineering team that drives architecture, POCs, implementation, Quality Automation, product management, support, operations and DevOps. There are, 25+ Scrum teams as part of the India Engineering center, driving outcomes across the breadth of the Epsilon PeopleCloud suite of products. This team of innovative thinkers develops and builds products that help Epsilon be a market differentiator. They map the future and set new standards for our products, empowered with industry best practices, ML and AI capabilities. The team passionately delivers intelligent end-to-end solutions and plays a key role in Epsilon’s success story

Tech Stack:

Our integrated suite of modular products is designed to help deliver personalized experiences and drive meaningful outcomes. Our tech stack caters to a fusion of data and technology with SaaS offerings developed as a Cloud-first approach. Here, a solid understanding of software security practices including user authentication and authorization and being data-savvy would be key. You should also come with the ability to leverage best practices in design patterns, and design algorithms for software development that focus on high quality and agility. You must also have a good understanding of Agile Methodologies like SCRUM.

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What you will do:

You would:

• Be responsible for development and maintenance of applications with technologies involving Enterprise Java and Distributed technologies.
• Collaborate with developers, product manager, business analysts and business users in conceptualizing, estimating, and developing new software applications and enhancements. 
• Review and Analyze business requirements in collaboration with the Engineering Manager and the Product Manager.
• Actively get involved in the development, and documentation of software’s objectives, deliverables, and specifications in collaboration with internal users and departments. 
• Collaborate with QA team to define test cases, metrics, and resolve questions about test results. 
• Assist in the design and implementation process for new products, research and create POC for possible solutions.
• Develop components based on business and/or application requirements 
• Create unit tests in accordance with team policies & procedures 
• Advise, and mentor team members in specialized technical areas as well as fulfil administrative duties as defined by support process. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science
• 8+ years’ experience in Core Java and Enterprise Java/Python/BigData/Spark/Kafka/SQL/Angular/AWS/Microservices
• Preferred knowledge/experience in the following technologies
• Big Data Ecosystems: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka
• Spark, Python
• Angular UI development
• Streaming and Batch Analytics processes
• Experience in open-source frameworks like Spring IO, Spring MVC, Spring Hibernate, Spring Boot
• Experience in following Tools: Eclipse, Maven, Gradle, DB tools, Bitbucket/JIRA/Confluence
• Experience with the following Application Servers: Apache Tomcat 6.x, Jboss 4.0
• Can develop SOA services and good knowledge of REST API and Micro service architectures
• Solid knowledge of web architectural and design patterns
• Understands software security practices including user authentication and authorization, data validation and an understanding of common DOS and SQL injection techniques.
• Familiar with profiling, code coverage, logging, common IDE’s and other development tools.
• Scripting Languages: JSP & Servlets, JavaScript, XML, HTML, Python and Bash
• Familiar with Agile Methodologies – SCRUM and Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
• Ability to work within tight deadlines and effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills, and ability to interface with Business, Analytics, and IT organizations.
• Ability to work effectively in short-cycle, team-oriented environment, managing multiple priorities and tasks.
• Ability to identify non-obvious solutions to complex problems

Behavioural Attributes:

• Team player with excellent interpersonal collaboration skills
• Strong verbal and written communication 
• Possess Can-Do attitude to overcome challenges with high energy levels
• Self-motivated, directed, and passionate

Nice to have qualifications:

Technical

• Java Certifications
• Strong technical knowledge of SQL and data analysis with relational database modelling principles and techniques
• Working knowledge of Data Technologies in the Cloud such as AWS services of compute, storage, messaging, RDS/Redshift or Snowflake
• Nice to have strong skills in writing SQL queries (Oracle/SQL Server/Warehouse/NoSQL).
• Basic UNIX/Linux knowledge/exposure is a plus but not required
• Knowledge of data warehousing concepts
• Nice to have proven expertise in ETL/ELT tooling such as Pentaho, Integration Services, Informatica, Data Pipeline, Glue

Non-Technical

• Functional knowledge of CRM, Marketing, Loyalty
• Excellent Analytical and problem solving skills. 
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot problems quickly 
• Strong time management skills with accountability 
• Ability to take full ownership of tasks and projects 

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.