Director - Engineering (Platform)

**Technology @Dream11:**Technology is at the core of everything we do. Our technology team helps us deliver a mobile-first experience across platforms (Android & iOS) while managing over 700 million rpm (requests per minute) at peak with a user concurrency of over 16.5 million.
At Dream11, we have over 190+ micro-services written in Java and backed by a Vert.x framework. These work with isolated product features with discrete architectures to cater to the respective use cases. We work with terabytes of data, the infrastructure for which is built on top of Kafka, Redshift, Spark, Druid, etc. and it powers a number of use cases like Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics. Our tech stack is hosted on AWS, with distributed systems like Cassandra, Aerospike, Akka, Voltdb, Ignite, etc.
We don’t just create for the users of today, but are driven to innovate for the sports fans of tomorrow. If you like to build with clean, resilient, and scalable code, this is the place for you. Check out some of our recent developments, all built with the same philosophy in mind. Your Role:

• Work with stakeholders, provide updates to leadership, and lead strategic engineering initiatives across Technology
• Be part of a cross-functional, self-sustaining team that manage products and systems from design to deployment
• Collaborate effectively with internal and cross-functional teams on a daily basis
• Tackle real business challenges by building and optimising high-scale, distributed microservices
• Own system architecture to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance
• Drive code and design quality through regular reviews and development standards
• Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team while overseeing project execution
• Strong system design skills with a deep understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture, backed by analytical and problem-solving abilities. Committed to best-in-class operability standards
• Hands-on experience with web frameworks, relational and NoSQL databases, and big data technologies such as Spark, Cassandra, and Ignite

Qualifiers:

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in any typed language, preferably Java
• Leadership experience in hiring people, building teams, and people management
• Experience handling a variety of stakeholders across different verticals