Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and improve security, reliability, performance, maintainability and scalability of various system components and resources, Identify, plan and implement relevant refactoring activities
• Resolve scaling issues before they happen and passionately automate all Engineering work. Ensure production environments stay live through high levels of concurrency.
• Drive improvements and new approaches to address potential systemic pain points and technical debt, anticipate and avoid problems.
• Drive creative and innovative solutions to complex problems, exemplifying good technical discernment.
• Take a hands-on approach in the development of prototypes, independently and with others, to establish design decisions and/or technical feasibility.
• Drive the evolution of the system architecture, and make appropriate technology choices.
• Plan, visualize and implement strategic technical initiatives to support established KPIs and future growth.
• Participate in pre-design work with the product team for new features to outline high-level solutions and align them with the overall architecture.
• Participate in design and code review with the team to ensure all solutions adhere to established guidelines
• Mentor junior engineers and drive a culture of technical perfection.
• Set and manage stakeholder expectations. Communicate and execute goals within timelines.

Qualifications:

• B achelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience
• 8 years of experience in consumer-facing software products with high levels of concurrency in Gaming, real-time banking, or eCommerce. Experience of working in hyper-growth environments & scaling up operations
• Excellent experience of managing non-functional requirements such as security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and scalability
• Have a deep understanding of design patterns, memory/performance optimization, and how to summarise and share knowledge
• Strong analytical skills with previous experience working with complex data sets. Must have experience in data-driven design and architecture, to ensure valuable insights can be extracted efficiently.
• Loves to CODE! Design, code, and develop new features/fix bugs/add enhancements. Ability to always leave code better than the state in which it is found.
• Strong development experience in Java, NodeJS and familiarity with multiple other programming languages
• Familiarity with microservice architecture, containers and related technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS), Comfortable with Linux as an Application server.
• Expertise in any Database (e.g Oracle, MySql, SQL Server, No-SQL Databases). Experience in relational databases is highly desirable
• Experience with distributed cache like Redis, aerospike, hazelcast, memcached or similar technology.
• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar tech stack.
• Background in high volume web applications, data mining, and multi-tiered transactional systems.
• Experience of implementing agile, kanban or similar software development methodology
• Expertise in web and mobile technologies based development.
• Experience in supporting live production, cloud-based infrastructure, and the ability to put out fires under pressure.
• Experience with animated/static UI using MVP pattern, Game Logic, 3rd party SDK integration, cross-platform game development tools like Unity is a plus.