Architect - Backend Engineering

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture for content discovery, playback, entitlement, personalisation, and CMS.
• Design scalable, fault-tolerant microservices for peak traffic and live events.
• Contribute actively to production-grade Java code.
• Lead deep production debugging (JVM, GC, latency, memory issues).
• Define APIs, caching, resiliency, and performance strategies.
• Mentor engineers and drive engineering standards and best practices.
  
  

Requirements

• Hands-on architect role for designing and scaling a high-traffic OTT platform.
• Strong focus on coding, debugging, and system design.
• Works closely with Product, Platform, and Cloudops teams to build highly available, low-latency systems.
  
  

Core Skills Required

• Strong hands-on Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs.
• Expertise in microservices and distributed systems.
• Advanced debugging and performance tuning skills.
• Solid grasp of DSA, design patterns, caching, async and event-driven systems.
• Experience with GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and observability tools.
  
  

OTT Experience (Preferred)

• Experience with OTT or high-scale consumer platforms.
• Understanding of content lifecycle, playback flows, entitlement, and personalisation.
• CDN & media delivery knowledge is a plus.
  
  

This job was posted by Imran Khan from ZEE - Technology & Innovation.