Software Architect

DAZN is seeking a highly skilled Node.js Backend Architect to lead architectural strategy, design scalable distributed systems, and provide technical leadership for backend engineering. This role requires deep expertise in Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, microservices, and cloud-native architectures. You will influence engineering decisions, mentor teams, and ensure long-term platform scalability, reliability, and performance.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Define and own 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 align 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 for cohesive system design.
• Evaluate new tools, frameworks, and platforms to enhance system architecture.

System Development & Delivery

• Guide backend service development, 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.