Architect - Backend Engineering

Responsibilities Own end-to-end architecture for content discovery, playback, entitlement, personalisation, and CMS. Design scalable, fault-tolerant microservices for peak traffic and live events. Contribute actively to production-grade Java code. Lead deep production debugging (JVM, GC, latency, memory issues). Define APIs, caching, resiliency, and performance strategies. Mentor engineers and drive engineering standards and best practices. Requirements Hands-on architect role for designing and scaling a high-traffic OTT platform. Strong focus on coding, debugging, and system design. Works closely with Product, Platform, and Cloudops teams to build highly available, low-latency systems. Core Skills Required Strong hands-on Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs. Expertise in microservices and distributed systems. Advanced debugging and performance tuning skills. Solid grasp of DSA, design patterns, caching, async and event-driven systems. Experience with GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and observability tools. OTT Experience (Preferred) Experience with OTT or high-scale consumer platforms. Understanding of content lifecycle, playback flows, entitlement, and personalisation. CDN & media delivery knowledge is a plus. This job was posted by Imran Khan from ZEE - Technology & Innovation.