Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Information Technology
Full-Time
RemoteStar

Overview
Exp: 15+ Years
Preferred Location: Bengaluru
Joining time: Within 30 days
Work type: Hybrid Model – 3 days a week in office.
About client:
Our client is an established education technology company with a 50+ year legacy of supporting K–8 learning across the U.S. Their flagship digital programs are used by millions of students and trusted by educators in schools nationwide. With a team of over 2,500 dedicated professionals, they are committed to building accessible, impactful learning solutions that improve classroom outcomes and empower teachers. At their core, they’re lifelong learners driven by a mission to make a real difference in education, every single day.
Essential duties/responsibilities:
- Lead technical initiatives and guide the team to develop innovative software solutions that address complex challenges.
- Build scalable, efficient, and high-performance pipelines and workflows for processing large volumes of batch and real-time data.
- Maintain and enhance existing software systems to ensure performance and reliability.
- Recommend and implement technology upgrades to drive continuous improvement.
- Support real-time streams, ETL pipelines, data warehouses, and reporting services.
- Design and develop data frameworks, applications, and microservices that seamlessly integrate with other services.
- Utilize Big Data tools such as Kafka, AWS S3 Data Lake, EMR, and Spark to ingest, store, transform, and query data.
- Adhere to coding best practices, including unit testing, design/code reviews, and comprehensive documentation.
- Conduct thorough code reviews to maintain quality, mentor junior team members, and promote continuous learning.
- Perform performance analyses and capacity planning for each release.
- Work effectively as part of an Agile team, contributing to process improvements and innovative solutions.
- Implement and promote security protocols and data governance standards across development projects.
- Proactively introduce new approaches to overcome software challenges throughout the product lifecycle.
Required job skills:
- Strong software design skills with a deep understanding of design patterns and performance optimisation.
- Expertise in writing high-quality, well-structured Scala code with an emphasis on functional programming and test-driven development.
- Ability to produce clear, concise, and organised documentation.
- Knowledge of Amazon cloud computing services (Aurora MySQL, DynamoDB, EMR, Lambda, Step Functions, and S3).
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with team members of varying technical backgrounds.
- Proficiency in conducting detailed code reviews focused on improving code quality and mentoring developers.
- Familiarity with software engineering and project management tools.
- Commitment to following security protocols and best practices in data governance.
- Capability to construct KPIs and use metrics for continuous process improvement
Minimum qualifications:
- 15+ years of experience designing and developing enterprise-level software solutions.
- 10+ years of experience with large volume data processing and Big Data tools such as Apache Spark, Scala, and Hadoop.
- 5+ years of experience developing Scala/Java applications and microservices using Spring Boot.
- 5+ years of experience working with SQL and relational databases.
- 2+ years of experience working within Agile/Scrum environments.
Preferred qualifications:
- Extended experience with Amazon cloud computing infrastructure.
- Background in the educational technology domain.
Similar Jobs
View All
Talk to us
Feel free to call, email, or hit us up on our social media accounts.
Email
info@antaltechjobs.in