About Flipkart

Flipkart is committed to the cause of transforming commerce in India through our investments in made- in-India technology innovations, customer-centric features and constructs, a diverse category landscape and a world-class supply chain. With a customer base of over 350 million, product coverage of over 150 million across 80+ categories, focus on generating direct and indirect employment and a commitment to empowering generations of entrepreneurs and MSMEs and a sustainable growth strategy – Flipkart is maximising for our customers, stakeholders, and the planet at large!

Flipkart is a part of the Walmart-owned Flipkart Group, which also includes group companies Flipkart Health+, Myntra, and Cleartrip. The Group is also a majority shareholder in PhonePe, one of the leading Payments Apps in India.

Job Description:

Job Title: Software Development Engineer II

Role Description:

At Flipkart, SDE-2 are engineers who create features based on product requirements. You’re expected to design and code in multiple tech components related to your functional area. You’re required to learn the best practices and design principles and patterns to make the code-base maintainable and extensible. You must also develop a deep understanding of non-functional requirements, such as reliability and availability, scale, horizontal scalability, etc. over time and make tech stack decisions accordingly.

We are looking for engineers who are well rounded - quality conscious, product thinkers, business cognizant and smart – not mere coders. Engineers get to significantly amplify their impact with the scale that Flipkart operates at.

Roles & Responsibilities (What you’ll do):

• Design components by translating product requirements, break down project into tasks and provide accurate estimates.
• Independently come up with different solutions, extensibile Low level design. Write modular, extensible, readable and performant code. You are expected to work on complex projects while taking ownership and accountability of assigned deliverables, quality of work (Code quality) & documentation aspects.
• Choose the right Data Structures, tools and tech stacks and be able to do High Level Designing with guidance.
• Build, develop, mentor and coach junior team members
• Collaborate with teams by contributing to the shared vision and working closely with cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills Required (What you’ll need):

• B.Tech or M.Tech or equivalent with 2.5 to 5 years of experience
• Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scope.
• Extensive programming experience in any one programming language like Java, Ruby, Clojure, Scala,C or C++, SQL etc
• Strong object-oriented programming skills.
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
• Ability to work with complex business flows and dealing with huge amounts of data.
• Prior work experience in an agile environment or continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI or CD)
• Experience of building robust and scalable web-application is good to have.

Open Positions: 1

Skills Required: Java, Springboot, Dropwizard, Microservices, MySQL, Hibernate, Kubernetes, Linux commands,

Location: Bangalore,Karnataka

Desirable Skills: Shell Scripting, Python

Why work with us?

At Flipkart, we promise to maximize what you care about the most. You’ll get an opportunity to leave a mark and create your own legacy, you’ll have freedom to experiment, learn and grow, you’ll get to work with the best in our inclusive teams and experience our culture of care to ensure that you can focus on doing your best work.

Every Flipster is a Maximiser - Curious, Audacious, Entrepreneurial, Purpose-Driven, Excited By Big Challenges, A Team Player and Inclusive. If this is who you are, then Flipkart is the place where you can thrive.

We understand that your own aspirations and journeys are unique. So you choose what you want to maximise, and we provide you the platform for it. Because when you maximise, we maximise.

Visit our career site to know more about what it means to work at Flipkart.

Being Yourself @ Flipkart

Flipkart respects and values differences. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to promoting a diverse workplace culture where every individual is valued for who they are, regardless of race, color, age, faith, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, marital status, professional pedigree, physical ability, veteran status, or any other characteristics. We firmly believe that when people with diverse identities and perspectives work together, we create the most value – for our customers, our people, and society. We are committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging, where diverse teams innovate and excel every day.