Principal Engineer - Bleacher Report, Bangalore

Job Summary

We are looking for a hands-on Principal Fullstack Engineer to lead the architecture, design and delivery of Bleacher Reports fan-facing products and the services that power them - from the GraphQL platform and real-time data pipelines down to the native mobile and web clients. This is a high-impact technical leadership role that bridges business needs and engineering execution across the full stack.

Responsibilities

- Own end-to-end architecture across the stack - from client applications (iOS, Android/TV, Web) through the federated GraphQL API layer to the backend microservices, data stores and streaming pipelines that power scores, schedules, Gamecast, articles, clips and messaging.
- Drive the design and evolution of a federated GraphQL platform (Apollo Federation v2 / Apollo Gateway), defining subgraph boundaries, schema governance, entity ownership and versioning strategy across many teams.
- Architect low-latency, high-throughput, event-driven systems for real-time sports data (live scores, play-by-play, notifications) using Kafka, message queues and caching, designed for game-day traffic spikes.
- Set the technical direction for client-facing experiences and collaborate closely with mobile (Swift/iOS, Kotlin/Android TV) and web engineers on API contracts, performance and data-fetching patterns.
- Ensure Tier-1 reliability: define SLAs/SLOs, resilience patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, back-pressure), observability and capacity planning for services that require high uptime during live events.
- Partner with Product, Content/Editorial, Data, Design and cross-functional engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable, cohesive technical solutions.
- Review and approve technology choices and designs - assessing options for cost,



performance, scalability, security and maintainability - and lead design and architecture reviews.
- Define and enforce engineering standards: coding standards, testing strategy, CI/CD, performance benchmarks and quality gates across services and clients.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raise the technical bar, and contribute to the teams technical roadmap and long-term platform strategy.
- Investigate and resolve complex, cross-cutting production issues - latency, data consistency, cache correctness, memory and stability - across the full stack.
- Drive innovation and adoption of emerging technologies - including AI-assisted development and agentic AI capabilities - and industry best practices, keeping B/Rs stack and engineering practices contemporary and competitive.
- Communicate effectively with engineering leadership, stakeholders and business functions to ensure alignment and a cohesive approach.

What to Bring

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of architecting and delivering complex, large-scale distributed systems and platforms end to end.
- Deep, hands-on expertise in TypeScript/Node.js and modern backend frameworks (e.g., Express), building production services at scale.
- Strong expertise in GraphQL, ideally Apollo Server and Apollo Federation (subgraphs, gateway/router,



schema design and governance), including patterns like DataLoader for efficient data fetching.
- Solid frontend/client architecture experience - able to define API contracts and data-fetching patterns for React web and/or native mobile clients (Swift/iOS, Kotlin/Android), and reason about client performance and UX at scale.
- Strong data layer expertise: relational databases (PostgreSQL, ideally with Prisma/ORMs) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB), plus caching with Redis/ElastiCache (cache-aside, invalidation, stampede protection).
- Experience designing event-driven and streaming architectures with Apache Kafka (and/or RabbitMQ/SQS), including schema/contract management (e.g., Protobuf).
- Experience building and operating Tier-1 systems (high uptime, strict SLAs) with real-time/low-latency requirements and large, spiky traffic.
- 5+ years of cloud experience (AWS preferred), with Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, Helm, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Terragrunt).
- Strong grounding in resilience patterns, observability (Datadog, OpenTelemetry, structured logging) and production operations.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD (GitHub Actions), automated testing, code quality tooling, and secure engineering (JWT/auth, secrets management).
- Excellent problem-solving, debugging and performance-tuning skills.
- Strong communication and leadership skills; ability to influence and drive cross-team technical decisions.

Nice to Have

- Experience with Elixir/OTP (Phoenix, GenStage) or other

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