Rusk Media - Head - Engineering

Head of Engineering

Role : Head of Engineering (Vacancy - 1)

Our Story :

- Rusk is building the full stack of digital entertainment across tech layered content IPs to P2E gaming which will be augmented by an immersive-metaverse built from the elements of its IPs & games

- We're a bunch that has loved entertainment across many forms - from Indian cinema, to sports to games. We've spent countless hours remembering dialogues from Shahrukh, replaying shorts from Sachin, or defeating the PC or our friends in Age-of empires.

- As the world & entertainment moves to single, personalized screens for everyone - we're looking for people who are willing to defy the normal and create clutter breaking IP's, games, and an entertainment economy alongside us. What are key important areas:

1. Entertainment enthusiast , must understand why people spend time on a IP, game and how to replicate it in our products

2. Gaming enthusiast - for our engineering teams - it's a must to be able to test games and optimize for watch times

3. Teamwork - our culture is of a community where distinct parts of the business drive the value for each other up.

4. Risk in their blood - must be focused on not doing the normal that the world is doing and driven towards creating IP's, products and features that stand out

Engineering @ Rusk :

- Building a gaming platform based on Polygon Blockchain to capture the attention of genZ audience.

- If building technology that impacts millions, brainstorming with some of the best minds in the country, executing at lightning speed, product-driven thinking, and owning your work from start to finish excites you, then let's start working together.

Primary Responsibilities :

1. Good experience in building, scaling and managing cross functional teams in engineering. (Frontend, Backend, Dev Ops, Data Engineering, QA). Candidate will be required to build and scale engineering team from scratch

2. Collaborate with CXOs, business and product teams to manage agile sprints, set engineering processes and deliver releases on time

3. Architect and implement backend services with high reliability and scalability

4. Lay a solid foundation for system architecture and database design

5. Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption

What Are We Looking For :

a. 8+ years of experience with Java frameworks like Spring / Dropwizard / Play and databases like PostgreSQL / MySQL / MongoDB

b. People who are currently at Senior Engineering Manager / Director / AVP roles will be preferred

c. Experience in building highly scalable customer-facing applications that involve implementing complex business flows and dealing with an ever-increasing scale

d. Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces

e. Experience in service-oriented architecture design

f. Experience with cache store / message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ / Kafka

g. Experience in working with scaled-up B2C products with high degree of ownership and commitment (Handled at least 1 mn+ user scale)

h. Candidates having experience in gaming domain will be preferred - We will need to set up and manage game servers on which third party games will be hosted

i. A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most importantly, you should be fun to work with

j. Zeal and hunger to release a disruptive product in the field of gaming entertainment