Director - Engineering (Platform)

3 Months ago • 7 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

As Director - Engineering (Platform) at Dream11, you'll lead strategic engineering initiatives, collaborating with stakeholders and providing leadership updates. You'll be part of a cross-functional team managing products and systems from design to deployment, working with high-scale, distributed microservices. Responsibilities include optimizing systems for scalability, reliability, and performance; driving code and design quality; hiring, mentoring, and growing a high-performing engineering team; and ensuring system architecture excellence. The platform handles over 450 million requests per minute at peak, utilizing technologies such as Java, Vert.x, Kafka, Redshift, Spark, Druid, Cassandra, Aerospike, Akka, VoltDB, and Ignite, hosted on AWS. Strong system design skills and experience with distributed systems and microservices are crucial.
Must have:
  • Lead strategic engineering initiatives
  • Manage products & systems (design to deployment)
  • Optimize high-scale, distributed microservices
  • Drive code & design quality
  • Hire & mentor a high-performing team
  • 7+ years hands-on experience in Java (preferred)

Job Details

Technology @Dream11:
Technology is at the core of everything we do. Our technology team helps us deliver a mobile-first experience across platforms (Android & iOS) while managing over 450 million rpm (requests per minute) at peak with a user concurrency of over 15 million.

We have over 190+ micro-services written in Java and backed by a Vert.x framework. These work with isolated product features with discrete architectures to cater to the respective use cases.

We work with terabytes of data, the infrastructure for which is built on top of Kafka, Redshift, Spark, Druid, etc. and it powers a number of use cases like Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics. Our tech stack is hosted on AWS, with distributed systems like Cassandra, Aerospike, Akka, Voltdb, Ignite, etc.

Your Role:

    • Work with stakeholders, provide updates to leadership, and lead strategic engineering initiatives across Technology
    • Be part of a cross-functional, self-sustaining team that manage products and systems from design to deployment
    • Collaborate effectively with internal and cross-functional teams on a daily basis
    • Tackle real business challenges by building and optimising high-scale, distributed microservices
    • Own system architecture to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance
    • Drive code and design quality through regular reviews and development standards
    • Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team while overseeing project execution
    • Strong system design skills with a deep understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture, backed by analytical and problem-solving abilities. Committed to best-in-class operability standards
    • Hands-on experience with web frameworks, relational and NoSQL databases, and big data technologies such as Spark, Cassandra, and Ignite

Qualifiers:

    • 7+ years of hands-on experience in any typed language, preferably Java
    • Leadership experience in hiring people, building teams, and people management
    • Experience handling a variety of stakeholders across different verticals
About Dream Sports:

Dream Sports is India’s leading sports technology company with 250 million users, housing brands such as Dream11, the world’s largest fantasy sports platform, FanCode, a premier sports content & commerce platform and DreamSetGo, a sports experiences platform.

Dream Sports is based in Mumbai and has a workforce of close to 1,000 ‘Sportans’. Founded in 2008 by Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth, Dream Sports’ vision is to ‘Make Sports Better’ for fans through the confluence of sports and technology.

For more information: https://dreamsports.group/

Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform with 230 million users playing fantasy cricket, football, basketball & hockey on it. Dream11 is the flagship brand of Dream Sports, India’s leading Sports Technology company and has partnerships with several national & international sports bodies and cricketers.

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