Tech Lead (Back - End)

3 Months ago • 6-8 Years • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Hitwicket seeks a Tech Lead (Back-End) to lead a team of engineers, architecting scalable systems for a high-performance game serving millions. Responsibilities include designing and developing robust game features using NodeJS, MongoDB, and Google Cloud Platform, ensuring scalability, security, and global reach. This role requires identifying and mitigating risks for a bug-free experience, automating deployments, troubleshooting, and understanding microservices architecture. Experience with Unity3D and a minimum of 6-8 years of experience is preferred. Team management experience is a plus.
Must have:
  • Lead engineering team
  • Architect scalable systems
  • Develop robust game features
  • Mitigate risks, ensure quality
  • Automate deployments
  • Troubleshooting expertise
  • Experience with NodeJS, MongoDB, GCP
Good to have:
  • Team management experience
  • Unity3D experience
Perks:
  • Casual dress
  • 5-day work week
  • Well-stocked pantry
  • ESOPs and other incentives

Job Details

Role & Responsibilities:


A strong technologist at Hitwicket cares about code modularity, scalability and reusability and

thrives in a complex and ambiguous environment.


Tech Stack: Unity3D, NodeJS, MongoDB, Google Cloud Platform


1. Lead a passionate team of engineers

2. Work on challenging time-space complex problems that are futuristic

3. Architect systems capable of serving as the brains of complex distributed products and

serving millions of users on a high performance game

4. Designs and develops robust, scalable, secure, and globalized game features

5. Understand web technologies and microservices architecture, including MongoDB,

redis, NodeJS etc. to build efficient and scalable code

6. Identify risks and mitigation for developed features to ensure bug free gaming

experience

7. Automate deployment and assist team members in trouble-shooting software issues

8. Work experience of 6-8 years and more is preferable

9. Experience of team management is a plus


What we offer you?

- Casual dress every single day

- 5 days a week

- Well stocked pantry

- Work with cool people and delight millions of gamers across the globe

- ESOPs and other incentives


About Us:

At Hitwicket we are empowering the World’s One Billion Cricket Fans to engage with Cricket like

never before. Combining the mass market appeal of Cricket with the Technology powered

immersion of Mobile Gaming is our mission.


Founded by alumni of ISB and VIT University, Hitwicket is one of the pallbearers of the Indian

gaming industry. Hitwicket is the Winner of Prime Minister Modi's AatmaNirbhar Bharat App

Innovation Challenge in Games. More than 3 Million users across 70 countries play Hitwicket.

Our work culture is driven by speed, innovation and passion, not by hierarchy. Our work

philosophy is centered around building a company like a 'Sports Team' where each member has

an important role to play for the success of the company as a whole.


Learn, have fun and build a Game that millions of people love to play! Join us on this epic journey!

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