Games24x7 | Architect

Introduction

Games24x7 is India’s leading and most valuable multi-gaming unicorn. We’re a full-stack gaming company, offering awesome game playing experiences to over 100 million players through our products - RummyCircle, India’s first and largest online rummy platform, My11Circle, the country’s fastest growing fantasy sports platform

A pioneer in the online skill gaming industry in India, Games24x7 was founded in 2006 when two New York University trained economists Bhavin Pandya, and Trivikraman Thampy met at the computer lab and discovered their shared passion for online games. We’ve always been a technology company at heart, and over the last decade and a half, we’ve built the organisation on a strong foundation of ‘the science of gaming’, leveraging behavioural science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to provide immersive and hyper-personalised gaming experiences to each of our players.

Backed by marquee investors including Tiger Global Management, The Raine Group, and Malabar Investment Advisors, Games24x7 is leading the charge in India’s gaming revolution, constantly innovating and offering novel entertainment to players

Our 800 passionate teammates create their magic from our offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, New Delhi, Miami, and Philadelphia.

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Summary of Role

Responsibilities:

• You will break down business opportunities and problems into software solutions.
• You will work closely with the VP of Engineering to help product and marketing stakeholders distill the product vision and roadmap, into a technology vision.
• You will be responsible for the evolution of an already bleeding-edge, highly distributed system at the back end, and you will need to work with front-end architects to come up with the best user experience for the gaming platform.
• You will be required to make decisions quickly and work under strict timelines.
• You would lead the technology strategy through an analysis of market trends and product requirements.
• You would help set coding guidelines and bring the most modern tools to keep engineering processes most efficient.

Requirements:

• B. E/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 10+ years or more of progressive software technology experience with at least 3 years in an architectural role.
• Completely hands-on with technology and architecture. Start-up experience is a huge plus.
• The ability to quickly prototype and demonstrate technology value adds educates, and drives adoption within the extended technology team.
• Excellent and robust understanding of scalable product system architecture(s), platforms, and core technologies.
• Demonstrated problem-solving and leadership skills to pursue the correct engineering process in adverse conditions.
• Ability to embrace and demonstrate leadership beyond ownership.
• Work with engineering leadership to set up and manage processes.
• Track record of thought leadership and out-of-the-box thinking in the technology arena.
• Ability to work efficiently in an entrepreneurial and start-up environment.
• A Java, Spring, Akka, or NodeJS rockstar.
• Deep and hands-on knowledge of some of these technologies: MySQL, NodeJS, message brokers such as Ka a/RabbitMQ, NoSQL datastores such as Mongo, Cassandra, and Arango, distributed caches such as Redis/memcached, container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes, etc.
• Great proficiency in distributed systems design, with the ability to make the right trade-offs for creating future-proof solutions.
• Building quick PoCs and full-edged solutions with various AWS-managed services would be a big plus.

*Games24x7 is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by the law*