Job Description

About us- We are technologists at heart, who love what we do.
At Quickplay we believe in transparency, fairness, and collaboration while we passionately work on some of the toughest use cases in OTT video, and enthusiastic about massive scale and agility. If you get excited about building the future of OTT video and aspire to be part of a high-performing, learning-oriented, and caring culture-you have landed on the right company.
Principal Architect is a key role in Quickplay with the following responsibilities:

• Define architecture strategy and roadmap for the Quickplay Video Platform to continue to be a world-class product.
• Define architecture design process, tools, and technologies to accelerate the product development, minimize cost and improve the quality of the product.
• Document, communicate and socialize the product architecture with all the stakeholders using standard architecture process documentation tools.
• Manage architecture governance and architecture change control process.
• Evaluate technology and business partners / vendors, 3rd party tools and technologies to augment the Quickplay Video Platform capabilities.
• Defining solution design to implement Quickplay Video Platform for a new customer / partner.
• Quickplay staff reports into offices in a hybrid capacity (i.e partially at home, and partially at the office based on role/team needs) leveraging safety protocols aligned with local public health guidelines as they relate to COVID-19.

Required Technical Skills

• Must have experience designing E2E solutions involving multiple functional components
  • Multi-platform Clients – Browsers, Android, iOS, Smart TVs, Media Players etc.
  • Lightweight microservice based application backend with multiple protocols – HTTP, QUIC, gRPC, Pub/Sub, Kafka, SFTP, FTP, etc.
  • Application Monitoring – Application Performance, Synthetic Monitoring
  • Analytics and Reporting – BI, Analytics, Data Pipeline, Data Governance and Reporting
  • Centralized Security – SSO, ACL, RBAC, ABAC etc
  • DevOps, DevSecOps and GitOps based operations.
• Must have the ability to identify the right tools, technology, framework, and process for a successful world-class solution.
• Must have experience in designing cloud agnostic solutions that can be deployed on all popular public clouds.
• Must have experience in designing solutions involving cloud applications, services and APIs provided by popular cloud providers – Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AWS
• Must have experience in designing solutions involving Serverless Computing in Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure or AWS.
• Must have experience in designing hybrid cloud solution – Open Stack, Microsoft Azure Stack Hub, Google Anthos, AWS Outposts, etc.
• Must have experience in Agile Development Methodology.
• Should have experience or understanding of the following programming languages:
  • Go Lang, Javascript, Typescript, Swift, Kotlin, Brightscript, Java, etc.
• Should have experience in video streaming tools and technologies for Live Video Streaming and On-Demand video streaming – IPTV/OTT
• Should have experience in video engineering – Video / Audio encoding / transcoding, packaging and delivery.
• Should have experience in 3rd party video streaming and distribution solutions – AWS Elemental, Ateme, Broadpeak, MediaExcel, Unified Streaming, Akamai, Limelight, Bitmovin, Wowza etc.

Required Experience

• Must have at least 10 years of experience in software engineering, design and development.
• Must have at least 3 years of relevant experience as Solution Architect / Technical Architect.
• Education: Graduate / Post-Graduate.

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