FanCode

SDE 2 - Backend

Associate Vice President - Product Design

FanCode is India’s premier sports destination committed to giving fans a highly personalized experience across content and merchandise for a wide variety of sports. Founded by sports industry veterans Yannick Colaco and Prasana Krishnan in March 2019, FanCode has over 100 million users. It has partnered with domestic, international sports leagues and associations across multiple sports.

In content, FanCode offers interactive live streaming for sports with industry-first subscription formats like Match, Bundle and Tour Passes, along with monthly and annual subscriptions at affordable prices. Through FanCode Shop, it also offers fans a wide range of sports merchandise for sporting teams, brands and leagues across the world.

**Your Role:**

* Building high performance and scalable software platforms
* Developing and owning product components – from inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures
* Work with leaders in Product and Engineering to drive and implement platform and product vision
* Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to improve development efficiency

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 FanCode is India’s premier sports destination committed to giving fans a highly personalised experience across content and merchandise for a wide variety of sports. Founded by sports industry veterans Yannick Colaco and Prasana Krishnan in March 2019, FanCode has over 100 million users. It has partnered with domestic, international sports leagues and associations across multiple sports. In content, FanCode offers interactive live streaming for sports with industry-first subscription formats like Match, Bundle and Tour Passes, along with monthly and annual subscriptions at affordable prices. Through FanCode Shop, it also offers fans a wide range of sports merchandise for sporting teams, brands and leagues across the world. Technology @ FanCode We have one mission, Create a platform for all sports fans. Built by sports fans for sports fans. We’re at the beginning of our story and growing at an incredible pace. Our tech stack is hosted on AWS and is built on Cloudfront / AWS API Gateway, NGINX, Node.js / Java, Redis / ElastiCache and MySQL / Cassandra as our end to end stack. Besides these, we heavily use Kafka, Spark, Redshift and other cutting edge tech to keep improving FanCode's performance. As a data-driven team, we also use R, Python and other big data technologies for Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics. Your Role: <ul><li>Building high performance and scalable software platforms</li><li>Developing and owning product components – from inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architectures</li><li>Work with leaders in Product and Engineering to drive and implement platform and product vision</li><li>Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to improve development efficiency </li></ul>
Must Have: <ul><li>4-6 years of hands-on coding and expertise in any programming language, preferably Java / Node.js </li><li>Proficiency in implementation of algorithms and use of advanced data structures</li><li>Strong relational and NoSQL database skills</li><li>Hands on experience on Web framework and RESTful APIs </li></ul>
Good to Have: <ul><li>Love Sports</li><li>Strong design skills backed with analytical and problem solving ability</li><li>Experience with reactive programming using VertX / Akka</li><li>Being a die-hard Cricket and/or Football Fan</li><li>Prior experience working on agile methodologies (Scrum)</li><li>A never say die approach to problem solving </li></ul>
Dream Sports is India’s leading sports technology company with brands such as Dream11, the world’s largest fantasy sports platform, FanCode, a premier digital sports platform that personalizes content and commerce for all sports fans, DreamSetGo, a sports experiences platform, and DreamPay, a payment solutions provider. It has founded the Dream Sports Foundation to help and champion sportspeople and is an active member of the Federation of Indian Fantasy Sports, the nodal body for the Fantasy Sports industry in India. Founded in 2008 by Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth, Dream Sports is always working on its mission to ‘Make Sports Better’ and is located in Mumbai. Dream Sports has been featured as a ‘Great Places to Work’ by the Great Place to Work’ Institute for four consecutive years. It is also the only sports tech company among India’s best companies to work for in 2021. For more information: https://dreamsports.group/ About FanCode: FanCode is India’s premier digital sports destination committed to giving all fans a highly personalized experience across Content, Community, and Commerce. Founded by sports industry veterans Yannick Colaco and Prasana Krishnan in March 2019, FanCode offers interactive live streaming, sports fan merchandise (FanCode Shop), fast interactive live match scores, in-depth live commentary, fantasy sports data and statistics (Fantasy Research Hub), expert fantasy tips, sports news and much more. FanCode has partnered with both domestic and international sports leagues and associations across multiple sports such as three of the top American Leagues - MLB, NFL, and NBA, FIVB, West Indies Cricket Board, Bangladesh Premier League, Caribbean Premier League, Bundesliga, and I-League. Dream Sports India’s leading Sports Technology company is the parent company of FanCode with brands such as Dream11 also in its portfolio. FanCode has already amassed over 3 crore+ app installs and won the “Best Sports Startup” award at FICCI India Sports Awards 2019. Get the FanCode App: iOS | Android Website: www.fancode.com FanCode Shop: www.shop.fancode.com 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 , India’s digital sports destination, 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/
 
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