Software Architect

Location: Hyderabad

Work From Offic e

About the Role: As a Software Archite ct, 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 Leadershi p: Define and document the architectural vision, guidelines, and roadmaps for our core platform services, ensuring alignment with global business objective
- System Design & Integratio n: 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 Governanc e: Establish, champion, and enforce engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices across development teams. Conduct architecture reviews and threat modelin
- Performance & Scalabilit y: Optimize end-to-end platform performance to handle massive concurrent traffic spikes during live sporting and entertainment event
- Mentorship & Collaboratio n: Mentor senior developers and tech leads, fostering a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and technical excellence

e.Required Skills & Experience

- Experienc e: 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with at least 3–4 years in a dedicated Software Architect or Principal Engineer role
- Backend Master y: Deep hands-on experience and architectural understanding o
- Ja va (Spring Boot, microservices patterns, JVM tuning
- Node. js (TypeScript, asynchronous programming, lightweight API gateways
- Pyth on (FastAPI/Flask, data processing pipelines, scripting, and automation
- AWS Expertis e: 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 Pattern s: Strong mastery of microservices, Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), domain-driven design (DDD), and RESTful/GraphQL API desig
- n.AI/ML Exposur e: 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 & DevOp s: 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 th e sports media, OTT streaming, or digital entertainme nt industry
- Familiarity with applying personalization models, recommendation algorithms, or search/retrieval systems (RAG) at scale
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Skilled) or equivalent certification

Why Join

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

📌 Software Architect (Hyderabad)
🏢 DAZN India
📍 Hyderabad