Backend Architect

JOB DESCRIPTION

Role: Backend Architect

Amagi Background

Amagi is a SaaS platform that lets every content owner deliver their content to consumers anytime, anywhere, to any device. Amagi helps bring entertainment to hundreds of millions of consumers leading the transformation in media consumption. We believe in a connected ecosystem bringing content owners, distribution platforms, consumers and advertisers together to create great experiences.

Amagi grew by 136% last year and is on its way to double itself again this year. The market leader in FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming TV), it delivers more than 500 media brands to 1500+ end points and is growing exponentially.

Amagi is looking for Software Architects with 8-12 yrs experience in high level & low level design and development of highly scalable software products.

Role reporting into: Director, Streaming TV - Distribution, Analytics & Monetization

Location: Bangalore, India

Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

You will lead a team of talented engineers to build the B2B products and services, as well as necessary frameworks, libraries and primitives to scale & connect our offerings together.

Architect, design, implement and maintain highly scalable backend systems that can scale to millions of concurrent users in production.

Derive next generation tools and technologies to support hundreds of high impactful customers on monetization products in production

Collaborate with the product, business, design and engineering functions to be on top of your team’s deliverables & milestones.

Timely delivery of highly reliable and scalable engineering architecture, and high quality, maintainable and operationally excellent code for your team.

Track & monitor team & individual performance, building continuous improvement into the process

Drive design discussions and code reviews

Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues

Hire the top talent for your team and mentor the team members.

Person Specifications

8-12 years of software development experience with demonstrated ability to design, build, and deliver complex, successful engineering systems or products efficiently and with high quality.

Good understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set up.

Good understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems

Strong object-oriented design skills, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.

Working knowledge of one or more backend technologies from among Java, Ruby-on-Rails, Python, Golang.

Well versed with development workflows for distributed systems deployed on the cloud (preferably AWS)

Establishing and maintaining unit, integration and system test mechanisms in staging, pre-production and production environments