Software Architect

Software Architect

Location: Hyderabad

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About the Role: As a Software Architect, you will be responsible for defining, designing, and driving the technical evolution of our high-scale sports streaming and entertainment platforms. Working across our ecosystem, you will design resilient, secure, and highly scalable cloud-native architecture

s.Your primary focus will be on the core backend services, event-driven architectures, and high-concurrency cloud systems that power real-time streaming for millions of concurrent users globally. Secondarily, you will collaborate with our data and data-science teams to design clean integration patterns for modern AI capabilities—such as personalization engines, smart search, and automated metadata generation—ensuring they fit seamlessly into our broader software ecosystem

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: Define and document the architectural vision, guidelines, and roadmaps for our core platform services, ensuring alignment with global business objective
• System Design & Integration: Design distributed, event-driven, and highly resilient microservices architectures using Java, Node.js, and Python
• Cloud Infrastructure (AWS): Architect secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud-native systems using AWS services. Establish best practices for cloud-native deployment, multi-region failover, and disaster recover
• AI & Data Integration: Collaborate with Data Science and AI specialists to architect integration points, APIs, and pipelines that embed AI capabilities (e.g., personalization, recommendation engines, GenAI search) into the core user experience
• Technical Governance: Establish, champion, and enforce engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices across development teams. Conduct architecture reviews and threat modelin
• Performance & Scalability: Optimize end-to-end platform performance to handle massive concurrent traffic spikes during live sporting and entertainment event
• Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentor senior developers and tech leads, fostering a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and technical excellence

e.Required Skills & Experience

• Experience: 10 to 12 years of overall professional experience in software engineering, with at least 3–4 years in a dedicated Software Architect or Principal Engineer role
• Backend Mastery: Deep hands-on experience and architectural understanding o
• Java (Spring Boot, microservices patterns, JVM tuning
• Node.js (TypeScript, asynchronous programming, lightweight API gateways
• Python (FastAPI/Flask, data processing pipelines, scripting, and automation
• AWS Expertise: Proven track record of designing architectures on AWS. Deep knowledge o
• Compute & Serverless (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda
• Database & Storage (DynamoDB, RDS, Aurora, S3, ElastiCache/Redis
• Integration & Messaging (SQS, SNS, Kinesis, EventBridge, Kafka
• Networking & Security (VPC, IAM, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway
• Architectural Patterns: Strong mastery of microservices, Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), domain-driven design (DDD), and RESTful/GraphQL API desig
• n.AI/ML Exposure: Practical understanding of how to integrate application backends with AI/ML systems. Familiarity with consuming AWS AI services (e.g., AWS Bedrock, SageMaker endpoints) or working with Vector databases (e.g., pgvector, OpenSearch
• CI/CD & DevOps: Deep understanding of modern CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or AWS CDK, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes

Preferred (Nice to Have) Qualificatio

• Experience in the sports media, OTT streaming, or digital entertainment industry
• Familiarity with applying personalization models, recommendation algorithms, or search/retrieval systems (RAG) at scale
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional) or equivalent certification

Why Join

• Massive Scale: Work on platforms that stream high-profile, live sports and entertainment events to millions of active user
• Modern Tech Stack: Build with a robust suite of cloud, serverless, and microservices technologies, while staying at the forefront of modern digital integration
• Collaborative Culture: Join a diverse, passionate global team dedicated to redefining the sports and media streaming experience