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Senior Architect Backend



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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 maximizing for our customers, stakeholders, and the planet at large!

Flipkart is a part of the Walmart-owned Flipkart Group, including group companies Flipkart Health+, Myntra, and Cleartrip.

The Group is also a majority shareholder in PhonePe, one of the leading Payments Apps in India.


About the Team :-

  • Flipkart is placing a strong focus on GenZ, with Video & Live Commerce emerging as a top strategic growth bet for the company.

    We're building this capability around three key pillars: enhancing user experience (“Play), empowering creators (Influencers), and encouraging seller/brands participation.

    The goal is to videofying the Flipkart app on various discovery points e.g. homepage, S&B, Product Page etc.

    along with a discovery destination (“Play”) where users can discover the inspirational content think of it as TikTok, Instagram reel.

  • Next generation Live streaming experience with concurrent livestreams (100+) serving millions of users.

  • Lead the development of next-gen systems , enhancing personalization with relevant product discovery for every user.

  • Innovate with GenAI to have automated QC of Images, Videos, Creators, and content that enhances and delivers a richer personalized shopping experience.

  • Drive Hyper personalization of user experience at various stages of funnel using ML and Data science .

  • Use Data driven insights and growth mindset to improve use experience at scale e.g. Serve video reels with < 90% size compression and under <150ms latency.


You are responsible for:

  • Architects at Flipkart are responsible for driving Technology & good practices in Engineering in their respective teams
  • Actively participate in development along with team members for as much as 75% of their time, creating modules & systems that can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.

  • Being responsible for Scaling, Performance & Quality for the team.

  • Setting up best practices to help the team achieve the above and constantly thinking about improving the technology use are your responsibilities.

  • Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you can create.

  • Implementation of long-term technology vision for your team.

  • Responsible for the architecture of your product; ensuring it is aligned to the requirements and the charter.

  • Active participant in technology forums & represent Flipkart in external forums.

  • Creating architectures & designs for new solutions around existing and new problem spaces at Flipkart.

  • Drive technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them.

  • Going beyond your role and contributing to make the organization & business better is an expectation


Technologies used :

Distributed systems built using Java, Python, Scala, Mysql, Redis, Elastic Search, Spark, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Druid, MongoDB, Aerospike, Kafka, RabbitMQ, nodejs, React Native, Reactjs, Reactive Programming with Vert.x & Spring webflux, Google Cloud Platform, K8s

You should have:

  • Quick & Excellent Problem Solving skills for complex & large-scale problems.

  • Technical Breadth – Exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies.

  • Very Strong System design and OO skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction.

  • Solid coding skills with ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercises & improve coding standards across large code bases.

  • Good knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures.

    Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions.

  • Good understanding & experience of high performance web scale & real-time response systems.

  • Good understanding & experience of Big data systems and architecture
  • Experience & exposure to a variety of large scale persistent systems including large databases.

  • Exposure to complete product development cycles – From inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements,re-architectures - the Architects should have seen it all.

    Should have been part of scalable product development cycles with either large data handling or large transaction processing exposure for 3+ years.

  • Excellent Mentoring skills – Be the technical mentor to your team.

  • Must be comfortable working in fuzzy environments – where boundaries aren’t clearly defined
  • 15+ years of overall experience.


Required Skill Profession

Computer Occupations



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