Job Description

Software Architect

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Location: Hyderabad

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Work From Office

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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

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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

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Key Responsibilities

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- Architectural Leadership: Define and document the architectural vision, guidelines, and roadmaps for our core platform services, ensuring alignment with global business objective
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- System Design & Integration: Design distributed, event-driven, and highly resilient microservices architectures using Java, Node.js, and Python
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- 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
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- 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
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- Technical Governance: Establish, champion, and enforce engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices across development teams. Conduct architecture reviews and threat modelin
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- Performance & Scalability: Optimize end-to-end platform performance to handle massive concurrent traffic spikes during live sporting and entertainment event
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- Mentorship & Collaboration: Mentor senior developers and tech leads, fostering a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and technical excellence
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e.Required Skills & Experience

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- 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
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- Backend Mastery: Deep hands-on experience and architectural understanding o
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- Java (Spring Boot, microservices patterns, JVM tuning
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- Node.js (TypeScript, asynchronous programming, lightweight API gateways
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- Python (FastAPI/Flask, data processing pipelines, scripting, and automation
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- AWS Expertise: Proven track record of designing architectures on AWS. Deep knowledge o
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- Compute & Serverless (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda
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- Database & Storage (DynamoDB, RDS, Aurora, S3,



ElastiCache/Redis
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- Integration & Messaging (SQS, SNS, Kinesis, EventBridge, Kafka
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- Networking & Security (VPC, IAM, CloudFront, Route 53, API Gateway
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- Architectural Patterns: Strong mastery of microservices, Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), domain-driven design (DDD), and RESTful/GraphQL API desig
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- 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
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- 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
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Preferred (Nice to Have) Qualificatio

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

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