Software Architect

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Node.js Backend Architect to drive architectural strategy, design scalable distributed systems, and provide technical leadership across backend engineering. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, microservices, and cloud-native architectures, with the ability to influence engineering decisions, mentor teams, and ensure long-term platform scalability, reliability, and performance.

Department

61-416 - Technology - Hyderabad

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

India - Hyderabad

Workplace type

Onsite

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Define and own the backend architecture for scalable, secure, and high-performance systems.
• Design modular, distributed, and event-driven microservices using Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Establish architectural standards, best practices, and guidelines for backend development.
• Lead design reviews, evaluate technical trade-offs, and ensure alignment with long-term engineering goals.
• Drive architectural improvements in API lifecycle, service orchestration, performance, reliability, and observability.

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical direction to development teams and mentor senior/junior engineers.
• Lead end-to-end solution design across APIs, integrations, data flows, and cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with Product, QA, DevOps, Security, and cross-functional teams to ensure cohesive system design.
• Evaluate new tools, frameworks, and platforms to enhance system architecture.

System Development & Delivery

• Guide the development of backend services, ensuring scalable RESTful/GraphQL APIs.
• Oversee integration with internal systems, third-party services, and cloud platforms.
• Ensure performance optimization, caching strategies, load handling, resilience, and fault tolerance.
• Drive CI/CD, containerization, deployment automation, and cloud-native best practices.
• Own technical governance including API versioning, backward compatibility, and contract management.

Operations & Reliability

• Lead root-cause analysis for complex production incidents.
• Ensure robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
• Drive performance tuning, capacity planning, and reliability engineering efforts.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience with 3+ years in an architect or principal engineer role.
• Expert-level proficiency in Node.js, JavaScript (ES6+), and TypeScript.
• Strong architectural understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven design patterns.
• Deep experience with Express.js, NestJS, or similar Node.js frameworks.
• Strong database architecture knowledge: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and serverless components.
• Strong experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines; exposure to Kubernetes is a plus.
• Proficiency in unit testing frameworks: Jest, Mocha, Chai.
• Proven experience in large-scale, high-volume, low-latency systems.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kafka / SQS or other message brokers.
• Exposure to GraphQL, OpenSearch, Swagger documentation.
• Understanding of Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience with caching, load balancing, and performance engineering.
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks (React/Angular) is a bonus.

About DAZN

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be. 

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop. 

DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:  

Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen. 

Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact. 

Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One. 

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities. 

If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.

Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.

We look forward to hearing from you.