Architect - Bengaluru, India - Games24x7

Description

About us:
Games24x7 is India's leading and most valuable multi-gaming unicorn.

We're a full-stack gaming company, offering awesome game-playing experiences to over 100 million players through our products - Rummy Circle, India's first and largest online rummy platform, My11Circle, the country's fastest-growing fantasy sports platform.

A pioneer in the online skill gaming industry in India, Games24x7 was founded in 2006 when two New York University-trained economists Bhavin Pandya, and Trivikraman Thampy met at the computer lab and discovered their shared passion for online games.

We've always been a technology company at heart, and over the last decade and a half, we've built the organisation on a strong foundation of 'the science of gaming', leveraging behavioural science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to provide immersive and hyper-personalised gaming experiences to each of our players.

Backed by marquee investors including Tiger Global Management, The Raine Group, and Malabar Investment Advisors, Games24x7 is leading the charge in India's gaming revolution, constantly innovating and offering novel entertainment to players

Our 800+ passionate teammates create their magic from our offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, New Delhi, Miami.

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Responsibilities Include

You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions.

You will work closely with the VP Engineering to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision.

You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge highly distributed systems at the back-end, and would need to work with front-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform.

You will be required to make decisions quickly, and work under strict timelines. You would lead technology strategy through analysis of market trends and product requirements. You would help set coding guidelines and help bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.

Requirements

B.E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in an architectural roleCompletely hands on with technology and architecture.

Start-up experience is a huge plus.

Ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate technology value adds and educate + drive adoption within the extended technology teamExcellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms and core technologiesDemonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue the correct engineering process in adverse conditions.

Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownershipWork with engineering leadership to setup and manage processes.
Track record of thought leadership and out of the box thinking in the technology arena.
Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and in a start-up environmentA Java/Spring/Akka, or NodeJS rockstar.

Deep and hands on knowledge of some of these technologies - MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Ka a/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastore such as Mongo, Cassandra, Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes etc.

Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with an ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
Building quick PoCs and full-fledged solutions with various AWS managed services would be a big plus