Viacom18 - Director - Technical Lead - Platform/App

Job Description :

- Design and architecture of highly scalable web services application.

- Make technology stack choices based on careful objective evaluation and build cutting edge applications and innovative workflows. Work with third party services to review and approve technical solutions.

- Architect Content Management Solution and scalable API platform to power one of the most popular content apps in India.

- Partner with third party technology services and contribute in making strategic inputs for defining relationships with third party services.

- Write good quality code, unit tests, automation and perform code reviews.

- Create workflows and solutions involving search, recommendations, rights management, monetization, identity management, authorization and authentication to name a few. Technical ownership of several of these platforms.

- Collaborate with product, design and other engineering team to drive execution across all platforms while balancing short-term requirements with long term objectives. Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms and products.

- 4-8+ years of back-end software development experience with extensive knowledge of Java, PHP, Python and related technologies.

- Should have experience in building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems and web services handling web-scale traffic.

- Should have excellent coding skills and good understanding algorithms and data structures.

- Expertise in distributed systems, SQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis, MySQL), scalability, AWS services such as EC2, ELB, AWS Lambda, API Gateway

- Experience in troubleshooting infrastructure failures, infrastructure management frameworks (Mesos, Kubernetes), REST API development

- Excellent knowledge of hosting web services like AWS, Google Compute, Azure, etc.

- Hands on experience in building Java/Scala based Hadoop/Spark applications

- Knowledge and/or experience in building OTT/IPTV/online video service would be a bonus

- Familiarity with front-end web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, AngularJS etc.

- Understanding & experience in building efficient search & recommendation platforms; experience in Machine/ Deep Learning would be beneficial.

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