Director - Engineering (Platform)

Dream11 is seeking a visionary Director - Engineering (Platform) to lead strategic engineering initiatives and drive the development of our core technology. If you have extensive hands-on experience in distributed systems, a proven track record of building and managing high-performing engineering teams, and a commitment to operational excellence, you'll play a critical role in scaling our platform.

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 manages 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 optimizing 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.

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.

Skills

• Strong system design skills with a deep understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Committed to best-in-class operability standards.
• Hands-on experience with web frameworks, relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Cassandra, and Ignite.