Senior Engineering Manager

About DAZN

At DAZN, we’re redefining the world of sports streaming. As the global home of sport, we deliver live and on-demand content to millions of fans across 200+ countries and territories. Our platform powers large-scale live events, real-time streaming experiences, subscription services, commerce, and personalization at global scale.

Our Hyderabad technology hub plays a critical role in building highly scalable, cloud-native platforms that support millions of concurrent users across multiple devices and regions.

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead high-performing backend engineering teams focused on building scalable SaaS and platform capabilities using Java, Microservices, AWS, and Node.js technologies.

Good to Have

• Experience in OTT, Media Streaming, AdTech, Payments, or Subscription platforms.

• Exposure to high-scale consumer applications serving global audiences.

• Knowledge of observability tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or ELK.

• Experience with React or frontend ecosystems is an added advantage.

• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering workflows or platform automation initiatives.

Why Join DAZN?

• Build systems that power global live sports experiences at massive scale.

• Work on modern cloud-native technologies and distributed architectures.

• Collaborate with talented global engineering teams solving complex technical challenges.

• Be part of a fast-paced, high-impact technology organization transforming sports entertainment.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and mentor a team of backend and full-stack engineers building scalable distributed systems.

• Drive architecture, design, and delivery of cloud-native applications and microservices.

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Architects, QA, DevOps, and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Own engineering execution, sprint planning, roadmap delivery, and operational excellence.

• Build highly available and resilient systems running on AWS cloud infrastructure.

• Champion engineering best practices including CI/CD, code reviews, observability, security, and performance optimization.

• Drive modernization initiatives from monolithic systems to event-driven microservices architectures.

• Foster a strong engineering culture focused on innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Support hiring, team scaling, career development, and performance management.

• Ensure systems are scalable, secure, and optimized for high traffic and low latency environments.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2+ years in people management or technical leadership roles.

• Strong hands-on expertise in:

• Java

• Spring Boot

• Microservices Architecture

• Node.js / TypeScript

• REST APIs

• AWS Cloud Services

• Experience building SaaS platforms or large-scale distributed systems.

• Strong understanding of:

• Event-driven architectures

• Kafka or messaging systems

• Docker & Kubernetes

• CI/CD pipelines

• System design & scalability patterns

• Experience with modern engineering practices, Agile methodologies, and DevOps culture.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

• Ability to balance hands-on technical contributions with people leadership responsibilities.