About the Team
The Data Platform Tech Team at Navi is instrumental in enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization. We build and manage the core infrastructure and tools required to collect, store, process, and analyze data at scale. Our platforms support self-serve capabilities for both batch and real-time data processing. We work closely with Analytics, Data Science, and Product teams to power a wide range of data use cases across Navi.
About the Role
As an SDE-3 on the Data Platform team at Navi, you'll design and build large-scale systems powering web events, analytics, and real-time data pipelines. You'll lead backend development, contribute to platform architecture, and solve complex data problems. This is a high-impact IC role with strong cross-functional collaboration and mentorship opportunities.
What We Expect From You
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services, data pipelines, and batch / realtime datasets related to web events and analytics.
- Strong proficiency in at least one of the following languages : Java, Python, Scala.
- Expertise in object-oriented design, design patterns, and data structures.
- Lead the development of new foundational capabilities in support of enabling our users to interact with, analyze, and derive insights from their data.
- Solve complex and challenging problems in the intersection between low latency, high correctness, and full determinism.
- Participate in code reviews, provide mentorship to junior team members, and enforce coding standards.
- Investigate, diagnose, and resolve software defects and issues, ensuring a high level of product quality.
- Contribute to the overall architecture and design of data platform frameworks.
- Strong interpersonal skills, showcasing effective stakeholder management with product and design teams.
- A minimum of 5 years of software development experience.
Must Haves
Familiarity with modern data lakehouse architectures and related technologies (e.g. Spark, Flink, Kafka, Trino).Prior experience in on-prem data-platform is preferred.Demonstrated ability to quickly adapt to new and complex development environments, along with strong deep-dive analytical skills.Previous success in mentoring and guiding junior engineers.Inside Navi
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