• Be passionate about building great digital media software products
• Provide technical leadership for a high performing software development team
• Thrive in day to day project execution in a fast paced cutting edge technology environment
• Formulate technical solutions that meets Diagnal and Diagnal customer’s business requirements
• Have good understanding of modern software frameworks, languages and concepts
• Back technical choices and decisions with solid reasoning that considers all aspects both technical and non technical
• At all times consider how to engineer software solutions the right way for high performance and for future maintainability instead of taking short cuts
• Think well ahead to mitigate technical risks before they arise
• Assist the team in identifying the root cause of technical issues
• Roll up your sleeves and code when required
• Employ mitigation strategies for technical risks
• Contribute to improvement of software development methodologies
• Proactively identify opportunities and drive efforts for automation of the software development lifecycle
• Establish software architectural best practices and standards
• Proactively organise and effectively lead technical review meetings to ensure the standards and best practices are being followed across the organisation
• Assist on the technical aspects of the sales/pre-sales cycle including estimations, product and solution briefings, technical discussions, proof-of-concepts, technical guidance & direction to arrive at the best possible business outcome
• Retain and spread organisational knowledge through documentation and training
You Have :
• 3+ years software architecture experience working with different types of Apps – (Native, Hybrid) and Backend architectures (SOA, ESB, Microservices, Virtualization, Lamdba, Distributed Computing, Big Data)
• 3+ years of hands on software development experience working with mobile applications, cloud deployments of large scale multi-tier architecture dealing with REST based Services, SQL/NoSQL Databases, Hadoop ecosystem, Message Queuing, Socket Communications, MapReduce, Auto Scaling.
• Strong experience in AWS stack – ELB, EC2, S3, Glacier, Route53, Cloudfront, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFormation, Redshift, Kinesis, RDS, DynamoDB
• Ability and experience to look ahead of the tech team and set the technical path that needs to be taken to avoid development or operational issues
• Experience with log management & monitoring systems – Logstash, Splunk, NewRelic, Nagios
• Experience and deep understanding of workflows & frameworks pertaining to Continuous Integration & Delivery cycles – Git based workflows, JIRA, Chef, Puppet, Docker, VMWare, Jenkins, Selenium
• Experience with Streaming Technologies would be a big plus – DASH/HLS, H.264/H.265/WebM Codecs, CDNs, Video Players, DRMs, EME, QoS/QoE optimisations
• Ability to lead your team through architecture / code level decisions in a timely manner
• Ability to define and specify the sequence of development tasks required to achieve project outcomes
• A solid grasp of Agile software development and best practices like TDD & Continuous Delivery
• A solid understanding of the software deployment lifecycle on multiple consumer devices, cloud services and physical servers in data centre
• Ability to solve difficult technical problems creatively and efficiently across coding, testing, deployment and operations
• Self motivation and self organisation with an ability to manage you own time effectively
• An extremely high level of attention to detail and ability to produce professional technical documentation that represents the solution to customers, internal stakeholders and the Diagnal technical team
• A Degree in computer science or engineering
• Prior experience working within the Media or Online industry
