Engineering Manager
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About DAZN
At DAZN, we’re redefining the world of sports streaming. As the global home of sport, we deliver live and on-demand content to millions of fans across 200+ countries and territories. Our platform powers large-scale live events, real-time streaming experiences, subscription services, commerce, and personalization at global scale.
Our Hyderabad technology hub plays a critical role in building highly scalable, cloud-native platforms that support millions of concurrent users across multiple devices and regions.
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead high-performing backend engineering teams focused on building scalable SaaS and platform capabilities using Java, Microservices, AWS, and Node.js technologies.
Good to Have
- Experience in OTT, Media Streaming, AdTech, Payments, or Subscription platforms.
- Exposure to high-scale consumer applications serving global audiences.
- Knowledge of observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or ELK.
- Experience with React or frontend ecosystems is an added advantage.
- Exposure to AI-assisted engineering workflows or platform automation initiatives.
Why Join DAZN?
- Build systems that power global live sports experiences at massive scale.
- Work on modern cloud-native technologies and distributed architectures.
- Collaborate with talented global engineering teams solving complex technical challenges.
- Be part of a fast-paced, high-impact technology organization transforming sports entertainment.
- Lead and mentor a team of backend and full-stack engineers building scalable distributed systems.
- Drive architecture, design, and delivery of cloud-native applications and microservices.
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Architects, QA, DevOps, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Own engineering execution, sprint planning, roadmap delivery, and operational excellence.
- Build highly available and resilient systems running on AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Champion engineering best practices including CI/CD, code reviews, observability, security, and performance optimization.
- Drive modernization initiatives from monolithic systems to event-driven microservices architectures.
- Foster a strong engineering culture focused on innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Support hiring, team scaling, career development, and performance management.
- Ensure systems are scalable, secure, and optimized for high traffic and low latency environments.
10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2+ years in people management or technical leadership roles.
- Strong hands-on expertise in:
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Microservices Architecture
- Node.js / TypeScript
- REST APIs
- AWS Cloud Services
- Experience building SaaS platforms or large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of:
- Event-driven architectures
- Kafka or messaging systems
- Docker & Kubernetes
- CI/CD pipelines
- System design & scalability patterns
- Experience with modern engineering practices, Agile methodologies, and DevOps culture.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to balance hands-on technical contributions with people leadership responsibilities.