Engineering Manager

Sizzle is an exciting new startup that’s changing the world of gaming.  At Sizzle, we’re building AI to automate gaming highlights, directly from Twitch and YouTube streams. 

For this role, we're looking for someone that ideally loves to watch video gaming content on Twitch and YouTube. Specifically, you will help generate training data for all the AI we are building. This will include gathering screenshots, clips and other data from gaming videos on Twitch and YouTube.  You will then be responsible for labeling and annotating them. You will work very closely with our AI engineers.

You will:

• Gather training data as specified by the management and engineering team
• Label and annotate all the training data
• Ensure all data is prepped and ready to feed into the AI models
• Revise the training data as specified by the engineering team
• Test the output of the AI models and update training data needs

You should have the following qualities:

• Willingness to work hard and hit deadlines
• Work well with people
• Be able to work remotely (if not in Bangalore)
• Interested in learning about AI and computer vision
• Willingness to learn rapidly on the job
• Ideally a gamer or someone interested in watching gaming content online

Skills:

Data labeling, annotation, AI, computer vision, gaming

Work Experience:  0 years to 3 years

About Sizzle

BlackLight Gaming is looking for a top-notch, ambitious and driven Node. js developer who is confident of creating, maintaining and further optimising highly scalable backend supporting our multiplayer mobile games which are played by millions of players. If you're hard-working, enthusiastic, dedicated, have fire in the belly to accept challenges, then BlackLight Games is the place for you.

What You Bring to the team:

• More than 3+ years of experience developing serverless applications using public cloud like Google Cloud/ AWS
• Knowledge of Node. js and frameworks available for it.
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds.
• Distributed system development with an understanding of latency, scalability, scheduling, asynchronous programming, and reliability
• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Experience with services common to serverless architectures, like: AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM, Firebase Real Time Database, Google Cloud SQL, Cloud Tasks. It’s a bonus if you have worked on Google Cloud Project and Firebase.
• Solid Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases is required with proven experience of creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system.
• Experience with deploying, maintaining, debugging live systems, and end-to-end testing and analysis
• Experienced in creating micro-services based architectures, reusable components
• Experience building REST APIs and other common application architectures on the above services
• Experience building data processing pipelines
• Solid understanding of code, design, and development practices
• General comfort in exploring, assessing, and learning new frameworks
• High levels of integrity and professionalism, and an ability to channel maximum amounts of energy into the role delivering premium customer service at all times
• Adhere to different Project Management methodologies (Agile etc) and leverage different CI/CD tools

Extra Gems for:

• Google, AWS and/or Industry certifications.
• Familiarity with object storage such as AWS S3, Firebase Storage, in-memory caches such as Redis
• Demonstrated performance of threat modeling, risk assessment techniques, code reviews in the context of DevSecOps security
• Knowledge of Application Monitoring using tools like Google Stackdriver
• Broad familiarity with other languages like J2EE, Python as we write some code in these as well.
• Experience with Github and advanced Github features.
• Experience of working in Product industry
• Open source contributions, interesting hobby projects.

Why Us?

• High Growth Startup environment
• Company sponsored courses and education material
• Lots of learning opportunities
• Work with a super-talented team of professionals
• Informal work-culture, Casual Dress Code, multiple outings and trips
• Performance Based Bonus
• Competitive Salary
• Medical Insurance for you and your family
• Subsidies Lunch and Unlimited Snacks, Tea & Coffee in the house at all time

Job Description:

Must-Have (Unity):

• Strong understanding of Unity3D (Version >= 2019).
• Strong understanding of Unity’s Nested Prefabs.
• Strong understanding of Unity’s Classic InputManager & New InputSystem.
• Strong understanding of Joystick/Controller/Keyboard input mapping using Unity’s Classic InputManager & New InputSystem.
• Strong understanding of UI navigation using Joystick/Controller/Keyboard input.
• Strong understanding of UnityWebRequest and Rest APIs uses in Unity.
• Strong understanding of Save/Load data in JSON notation.
• Strong understanding of debugging Console/Standalone/Mobile applications.
• Good understanding of libraries and plugins like JsonUtility, NewtonSoft, DoTween and TextMeshPro.
• Good understanding of responsive UI implementation in Unity.
• Good understanding of streaming assets in Unity.
• Basic understanding of Unity Editor scripting.
• Basic understanding of Unity’s custom builds pipeline for Console/Standalone/Mobile applications.
• Basic understanding of CI/CD using Jenkins for Unity projects.

Must-Have (Others):

• Good understanding of JSON and XML notations.
• Good understanding of DLL (Dynamic Link Library) creation using Visual Studio.
• Good understanding of project management software like JIRA and YouTrack.
• Good understanding of using GitHub/GitLab platforms.
• Basic understanding of versioning systems like git.
• Basic understanding of Linux and Bash Commands.

Good To Have:

• Basic understanding of Consoles (Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo) and Controllers (Wired, Wireless).
• Basic understanding of using Chromium based Browsers/WebViews in Standalone Unity applications.
• Basic understanding of Shaders especially Blur Shader.
• Basic understanding of UPnP, SSDP, and JsonRpc based communication protocols.
• Basic understanding of SCRAM based authentication mechanism.
• Basic understanding of libraries like StreamJsonRpc, StreamRpc, RSSDP, ZFBrowser/Embedded Browser.
• Basic understanding of TCP/IP Protocols and Network Streams in C#.
• Basic understanding of Reflection in C#.

• Interest in our tech stack (Java or Scala, SQL Databases, NoSQL, Microservices, and AWS)
• Strong computer science fundamentals with data structures, algorithms, various programming languages, distributed systems, etc. 
• Understanding of engineering best practices—you constantly seek to improve engineering standards, tooling and processes
• Ability to write “good code” - easily understandable, secure and testable! 
• Comfortable helping drive technical decisions within our Engineering team
• Experience building applications at scale

Key Responsibilities:

• Write creative JDs and post/advertise them on various job portals.
• Review and understand technical job requirement and screen the candidates accordingly
• Review applicants to verify if position requirements are met
• Source potential candidates on niche platforms.
• Research new technologies
• Perform pre-screening calls to analyze applicant's’ abilities
• Interview candidates combining various methods (e.g. structured interviews, technical assessments and behavioral questions)
• Coordinate with IT team leaders to forecast department goals and hiring needs
• Craft and send personalized recruiting emails with current job openings to passive candidates
• Keep up-to-date with new technological trends and products
• Follow up with candidates

Skills and Experience:

• Proven work experience as a Technical Recruiter or Recruiter (3+yrs)
• Knowledge on the technical know how, to screen the candidate initially.
• Hands-on experience with various interview formats (e.g. phone, Skype and structured)
• Technical expertise with an ability to understand and explain job requirements for IT roles
• Solid knowledge of sourcing techniques (e.g. social media recruiting and Boolean search)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to build strong relationships
• Self-confidence and self starter
• Logical and analytical approach to problem solving.
• Has passion to constantly exceed own quality benchmarks.