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Director - Engineering (Platform)

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In-Office
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Senior level
In-Office
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Senior level
Lead engineering initiatives, oversee product systems from design to deployment, manage a high-performing team, and ensure system architecture aligns with scalability and performance goals.
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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

About Dream Sports:

Dream Sports is India’s leading sports technology company with 280 million+ users, housing brands such as Dream11, the world’s largest fantasy sports platform, FanCode, a premier sports content & commerce platform and DreamSetGo, a sports experiences platform.

Dream Sports is based in Mumbai and has a workforce of close to 1,000 ‘Sportans’. Founded in 2008 by Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth, Dream Sports’ vision is to ‘Make Sports Better’ for fans through the confluence of sports and technology.

Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform with 260 million+ users playing fantasy cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, hockey, volleyball, handball, rugby, futsal, American football & baseball, on it. Dream11 is the flagship brand of Dream Sports, India’s leading Sports Technology company and has partnerships with several national & international sports bodies and cricketers.

Checked out Dream Locker Room yet? Head over to our official blog to get a glimpse into our culture, and how we ‘Make Sports Better’, together. 

Top Skills

Aerospike
Akka
AWS
Cassandra
Druid
Ignite
Java
Kafka
Redshift
Spark
Vert.X
Voltdb

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