Senior Architect

About the Company, Conviva:
Conviva is the leader in streaming media intelligence, powered by its real-time platform. More than 250 industry leaders and brands – including CBS, CCTV, Cirque Du Soleil, DAZN, Disney+, HBO, Hulu, Sky, Sling TV, TED, Univision, and Warner Media – rely on Conviva to maximize their consumer engagement, deliver the quality experiences viewers expect and drive revenue growth. With a global footprint of more than 500 million unique viewers watching 150 billion streams per year across 3 billion applications streaming on devices, Conviva offers streaming providers unmatched scale for continuous video measurement, intelligence and benchmarking across every stream, every screen, every second. Conviva is privately held and headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, with offices around the world. For more information, please visit us at www.conviva.com.

What you get to do:
 Be a thought leader. As one of the senior most technical minds in the India centre, influence our technical evolution journey by pushing the boundaries of possibilities by testing forwarding looking ideas and demonstrating its value.
 Be a technical leader: Demonstrate pragmatic skills of translating requirements into technical design.
 Be an influencer. Understand challenges and collaborate across executives and stakeholders in a geographically distributed environment to influence them.
 Be a technical mentor. Build respect within team. Mentor senior engineers technically and
contribute to the growth of talent in the India centre.
 Be a customer advocate. Be empathetic to customer and domain by resolving ambiguity efficiently with the customer in mind.
 Be a transformation agent. Passionately champion engineering best practices and sharing across teams.
 Be hands-on. Participate regularly in code and design reviews, drive technical prototypes and actively contribute to resolving difficult production issues.

What you bring to the role:
 Thrive in a start-up environment and has a platform mindset.
 Excellent communicator. Demonstrated ability to succinctly communicate and describe complexvtechnical designs and technology choices both to executives and developers.
 Expert in Scala coding. JVM based stack is a bonus.
 Expert in big data technologies like Druid, Spark, Hadoop, Flink (or Akka) & Kafka.
 Passionate about one or more engineering best practices that influence design, quality of code or developer efficiency.
 Familiar with building distributed applications using webservices and RESTful APIs.
 Familiarity in building SaaS platforms on either in-house data centres or public cloud providers.