Backend Architect - Bengaluru, India - Disney

Disney

Verified Company

Bengaluru, India

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

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Description

Backend Architect - Customer Experience

Job ID
353e7519-60ff-42a2-8aaf-11b4a38c450f

Location
Bengaluru, India

Business
Disney+ Hotstar

Date posted
Jul. 15, 2023

Job Summary:

Job Summary - The Architect at Hotstar plays a crucial role in defining and architecting products, algorithms, and data systems that are integral to the customer experience. The focus is on leveraging data, metrics, algorithms, and incentives to drive innovation and scalability across the company. This cross-functional position requires collaboration with core software systems throughout the organization.

About the team

Business Team:
Customer Experience Engineering Team;
Sub-team: Discovery (Home, Personalization and Search)

The Customer Experience (CEX) team at Disney+ Hotstar creates delightful experiences for our 150+ million users across multiple countries. We manage the entire customer journey, from signup to personalized content viewing on various devices. Our fast and intuitive experiences cater to different user segments, including mobile and living room viewers. Backed by distributed services, we innovate through experimentation and data-driven decisions.

The Discovery Team focuses on revolutionizing content discovery. We aim to provide users with an intuitive and personalized experience, enabling seamless exploration and enrichment of their interests. Collaborating with developers, data scientists, designers, and curators, we enhance algorithms and recommendation systems. By analyzing user preferences and behaviors, we deliver immersive content discovery.

Key Responsibilities:

You will serve as a technical architect for the teams within Discovery charter
You will ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems
You will functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions
You will develop technical roadmaps, outlining future directions and planned technological advancements
You will analyze and improve data quality and metrics
Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations
You will leverage internal and industry knowledge to make informed design decisions
You will assist in the career development of team members by mentoring on advanced technical issues and supporting their career growth

Skills & Attributes for success:

Minimum 12+ years of experience building large scalable systems
Solid background with handson experience as a Principallevel software development engineer
Strong knowledge of distributed systems
Proficiency in datastores (SQL, NoSQL) and ability to choose the right technology based on requirements
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
Excellent problemsolving abilities
Ability to provide technical guidance across backend, frontend, and ML technologies
Thrive in a highly innovative and fastpaced environment, achieving stretch goals
Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others and strong analytical thinking skills
Extensive experience of mentoring junior engineers to success
Entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to have fun

Preferred Education & Experience:

B.Tech/B.E/ Masters or equivalent degree from a reputed college. A minimum of 12 years of professional experience as a backend/full stack developer with handson experience on building highly scalable and performant distributed systems
Any experience in ML, data science or search in B2C(ecommerce, OTT) is a plus

About Us

Disney+ Hotstar is India's leading streaming platform that has changed the way Indians watch their entertainment - from their favorite TV shows and movies to sporting extravaganzas.

With the widest range of content in India, Disney+ Hotstar offers more than 100,000 hours of TV Shows and Movies in 18 languages and coverage of major global sporting events.

As a mission-driven organization with a relentless focus on our users, we are dedicated to attracting and retaining world-class talent to drive our success.