Azuga is looking for an Uber Architect to lead the architecture for their next generation connected car and IoT platform. This role will define the overall platform architecture and guide its direction and principles. As the first hire for this role, the architect will work with an exceptional team to build a highly scalable platform and help shape technology strategy. The ideal candidate has strong experience developing enterprise applications, proficiency in Java and NoSQL technologies, and the communication skills to collaborate and lead others.

1. Uber Architect
Position Type: Full-time
Location: Bangalore, India
Experience: Number of years do not matter, show us what you can really do.
Job Description
Azuga is looking for a world class Connected Car and IOT architect to bring to market its next
generation of platform capabilities and applications.
This is a startup and you will be the first Uber Architect who will transform and own the overall
p l a t f o r m architecture, understand the current state, plan its direction, guide its principles and
establish the various levels of abstraction. You will work with a team of exceptional people who
challenge and inspire each other in a fast paced environment. You will help shape technology strategy
and processes to build a highly scalable platform for us.
You may be a great fit for the team if the following statements resonate:
▪ You get excited by highly distributed and scalable software systems and their potential to
impact existing industries in new ways.
▪ You enjoy building state of the art systems that can actually be deployed with finite time and
resources.
▪ You are fearless at the engineering table – you still code, deploy and integrate – you think a
working proof-of-concept is the best way to make a point. You strive on proving that speed
and quality are not conflicting; that you can achieve both at the same time.
▪ You possess strong communication skills; challenge the status quo, highly creative and a
strong technical acumen. Basically a great collaborator and a leader of leaders.
▪ You understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations. You
are capable of extracting the principles which underpin the architecture and dive all the way
down to specific implementation details.
▪ You understand the need for process in an agile environment but you also know that SEI CMM
Level 5 can kill you.
▪ When you hear that you need to scale from 10,000 requests per second to million requests
per second, you say ‘bring it on’.
▪ You are highly entrepreneurial with a can-do approach; you see this job as a great foundation
to growing into a CTO one day.

2. ▪ You enjoy sharing your work with the team, take pride in mentoring and have an exemplary
track record of game changing innovation and creativity.
Responsibilities:
▪ Champion the platform architecture, drive its design, information hierarchy, visualize and
communicate the different levels of abstraction, embrace emerging technologies.
▪ Work closely with the team to create a shared vision for the architecture and solve complex
business and technical puzzles.
▪ Keep the architecture real, up to date, agile and organically evolve the platform architecture
based on implementation experience, product feedback, roadmap priorities, and other
ground realities.
▪ Architect both the long-term and short-term states, lay the path to get there, responsible for
near-term product deliverables, technical debt, maturity and likely evolution of relevant
technologies.
▪ Lead by example and work closely with business on strategic initiatives, designing high quality
software, providing detailed feedback in design and code reviews, and bringing the craft of
software engineering to bear on everything we do.
▪ Innovate and lead explorations into new areas and new technologies where no one has
ventured, going beyond the boundaries of comfort and mentoring the team to embrace
challenges up front.
▪ Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions.
▪ Evangelize new and emerging technologies. Blog, tweet, hack and talk often, stay current with
a broad range of industry trends and developments.
Desired Skills:
▪ Strong experience in developing multi-tier business applications. Enterprise Java (Spring, Avoid-
Hibernate), RDS-mySQL@AWS, Mongo, REST, JSON, and API-First development are firm
expectations.
▪ Hands on knowledge of all new cool stuff like Kafka, Spark, node.js and Storm.
▪ Must have depth and proficiency with design patterns. You know how to build highly scalable,
robust, and fault-tolerant services that support high-volume request scale. You stay
up-to-date with the latest architectural trends. You know what not to do because you've
already made a few mistakes and learned from them.

3. ▪ Must "get" NoSQL. Check your 3NF at the door. We're building applications that rely on Mongo and
Couchbase
▪ Understand mobile tech stack and the debate on HTML5, hybrid etc.
▪ Fantastic networker with a personality to inspire and attract highly skilled talent to the team
▪ Passionate about quality coding and unit testing. You fundamentally believe that QA is not
needed.
▪ Experience with Amazon cloud-hosted applications including operational management and
deployment orchestration.
Required Qualifications:
▪ B.S., Computer Science or equivalent experience
▪ 5+ years of software engineering with projects of increasing scope, scale and complexity
▪ Deep expertise and proficiency with enterprise Java and at least one of the following
additional procedural or functional languages: Python, Ruby, Scala and/or Akka
▪ 3+ years of experience developing and consuming RESTful APIs
▪ Excellent written and oral communication skills
▪ NoSQL proficiency especially Mongo, Cassandra and Couchbase. Why three? We love them all
and are going to use them all based on the use case.
You believe that work and fun can, in fact, coexist: Azuga is the right place for you!
Bored team members make boring products. At Azuga, there's no such thing as a boring job. Work
and life should definitely be buddies, so we're serious about cultivating a fab work environment. To wit:

4. ▪ Business goals are celebrated with Major Milestone Trips and frequent Friday Happy Hours
▪ Competitive compensation including equity options
▪ Comprehensive benefits package including medical/dental coverage, 401K, and life insurance
▪ A start up's pantry of complimentary beverages and snacks