SDE - Java

Company Overview:

Mobile Premier League (MPL) is a leading mobile gaming platform with a global presence. Hosting millions of tournaments each month across various game categories, MPL has grown to amass a user base of 90 million across Asia, Europe, and North America. To learn more about our dynamic gaming environment, visit www.mpl.live.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring that the architecture, data pipeline and design of the platform remains top-notch with respect to scalability, availability, reliability and maintainability
• Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular mentoring. Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback.
• Own end-to-end availability and performance of features, driving rapid product innovation while ensuring a reliable service.
• Working closely with the various stakeholders like Program Managers, Product Managers, Reliability and Continuity Engineering (RCE) team, QE team to estimate and plan projects in an agile environment
• Maintain and drive tech backlog execution for non-functional requirements of the platform required to keep the platform resilient
• Assist in release planning and prioritisation based on technical feasibility and engineering constraints
• A zeal to continually find new ways to improve architecture, design and ensure timely delivery and high quality

Requirements

• Computer Science or equivalent engineering graduate with 3+ years of experience
• Knowledge in Java 8 or above, Spring boot, Strong SQL, RDBMS - Postgresql, MongoDB, Kafka, React, Next.js, Rest & Grpc, AWS or GCP
• Thorough understanding of highly distributed, low latency and high throughput systems
• Knowledge of globally distributed disaster-recovery enabled architectures
• Experience of the best practices or REST (SpringBoot, jHipster, Dropwizard) and non-REST (gRPC) communication
• Exceptional code reviewer and solid programmer (preferably Java)
• Understanding of Containerisation, Orchestration and Service mesh frameworks (Kubernetes, Mesos, Ist.io, etc.)
• Good understanding of the best practices of API design
• Champion of Engineering excellence - code reviews, unit tests, documentation of system design and architecture, etc.