Excellent team player who can drive a collaborative environment.
Self-motivated, high-energy with the ability to execute on business objectives.
Experience in building low latency and highly scalable distributed systems.
Ensure that technical solutions follow best practices, are reliable, are easily maintainable.
Excellent verbal and written communications with the ability to establish effective working relationships with team members and cross functional teams.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
5+ years of related work experience.
Strong hands-on programming experience in at least one modern language (Java) and Big Data frameworks (Spark or Kafka)
Designing and developing highly reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications with a heavy emphasis on performance and scale in the Cloud.
Demonstrated understanding of fast-paced Agile principles with technical designs, iterative development, and code reviews.
Well-versed with building high quality software using the industry proven practices – 12 factor app, reactive manifesto, and CI/CD.
Building microservices using Spring/Spring-boot framework including Spring JPA, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, Spring Data Stream etc.
Experience working with Distributed Databases such as Azure CosmosDB, Couchbase, and MongoDB.
Experience working with Relational Databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
Experience working with Distributed Caching solutions such as Memcached, Redis, and Hazelcast.
Experience working with Distributed Messaging solutions such Azure EventHub, Apache Kafka, and Solace.
Experience building and optimizing production grade data pipelines (stream processing and batch) to prepare datasets at scale for data analysis, modeling, and optimization.
Preferred Qualifications:
Proven experience taking an idea from inception to life with an ability to explore a variety of open-source technologies.
Experience with developing, deploying, and launching software products on public cloud preferably Microsoft Azure.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of related work experience
- Strong hands-on programming experience in Java or another modern language
- Experience with Big Data frameworks such as Spark or Kafka
- Experience designing and developing reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications focused on performance and scale in the cloud
- Understanding of Agile principles, technical design, iterative development, and code reviews
- Experience applying 12-factor app, Reactive Manifesto, and CI/CD practices
- Experience building microservices with Spring and Spring Boot frameworks
- Experience with distributed databases including Azure Cosmos DB, Couchbase, or MongoDB
- Experience with relational databases including MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Experience with distributed caching solutions including Memcached, Redis, or Hazelcast
- Experience with distributed messaging solutions including Azure Event Hubs, Apache Kafka, or Solace
- Experience building and optimizing production-grade streaming and batch data pipelines at scale
- Experience taking software ideas from inception to completion and exploring open-source technologies
- Experience developing, deploying, and launching software products on public cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure
What We Do
Staples India is Staples’ technology and innovation hub in Chennai, building platforms, systems, and digital solutions that support the company’s global operations and future of work. Staples serves consumers and businesses with workplace products and services, including office supplies, janitorial products, technology, furniture, breakroom essentials, print and marketing, shipping, travel, and promotional offerings. Its India teams focus on engineering, eCommerce, process optimization, and enterprise solutions.
