Senior Backend Architect for Next-Gen Streaming Platform

Backend Technical Architect | Streaming Platform We're working with a leading player in the OTT/Streaming space to find a hands‑on Backend Technical Architect - someone who can own architecture end‑to‑end and drive real technical decisions. What You’ll Be Doing Designing and evolving platform architecture for scalability, reliability, and performance Breaking down complex initiatives into actionable work with clear delivery targets Providing LOE estimates, conducting architecture reviews, and setting engineering best practices Mentoring junior developers through code reviews and pair programming Troubleshooting critical production issues and leading performance optimization efforts Owning capacity planning, scaling analysis, and continuous improvement across the stack The Non‑Negotiables DynamoDB — query optimization, indexing strategies, capacity planning, cost optimization Kafka — consumer/producer tuning, partition strategies, throughput optimization, monitoring Circuit Breakers — resilience patterns, fault tolerance, graceful degradation Performance Engineering — latency reduction, caching strategies, load testing, profiling Your Background 8+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years in architecture roles Expert‑level TypeScript/Node.js Deep knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, and event‑driven architecture Proven track record delivering complex technical projects — not just advising on them Strong communicator who can bridge technical and business priorities Bonus Points Observability tooling (DataDog, Splunk, Grafana, CloudWatch) SRE/DevOps background CI/CD and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation) #J-18808-Ljbffr 5V Video