Software Architect

Why Join DAZN?

Joining DAZN in Hyderabad means being part of a cutting-edge sports streaming company in a vibrant tech hub. You’ll work alongside passionate, talented professionals on innovative projects that reach millions of fans worldwide. Hyderabad offers a dynamic work environment with a great balance of career growth and lifestyle. If you’re excited about shaping the future of live and on-demand sports entertainment, DAZN Hyderabad is the perfect place to make your mark and grow your career.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of Android and Android TV applications.
• Define best practices, frameworks, and reusable components to ensure consistency and scalability across teams.
• Partner with product, design, and backend engineering teams to translate business needs into robust, high-performance solutions.
• Drive technical design reviews, performance optimization, and system scalability improvements.
• Architect integrations with APIs, content delivery systems, and playback pipelines (HLS, DRM, adaptive streaming).
• Ensure security, resiliency, and maintainability of applications through strong architectural governance.
• Guide teams on modern Android patterns (MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture) and Jetpack Compose adoption.
• Contribute to DAZN’s engineering culture, mentoring engineers and fostering innovation.

Preferred

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Firebase, and event-driven microservices.
• Knowledge of broadcast systems, digital video workflows, or metadata pipelines.
• Familiarity with Jetpack libraries, Compose for TV, and AndroidX TV UI components.
• Experience designing for large-scale, high-availability applications.
• Passion for sports, media technology, and cutting-edge user experiences.

Role Overview

As an Android Architect, you will lead the design and architecture of DAZN’s Android. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to define scalable solutions, ensure technical excellence, and evolve the platform to meet DAZN’s global growth and innovation goals.

You will be hands-on in setting coding standards, mentoring developers, and driving architectural decisions for performance, maintainability, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• 8+ years of Android application development experience, including 4+ years in architecture or lead engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on background in Kotlin and Java.
• Proven experience architecting and building apps for Android and Android TV.
• Expertise in video streaming, playback, and DRM integration (ExoPlayer, HLS, DASH).
• Solid understanding of software design patterns (MVC, MVVM, MVI) and SOA / RESTful architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, modularization, and scalable multi-module app design.
• Strong understanding of performance tuning, memory management, and concurrency in Android.
• Experience working in Agile environments with distributed teams.