Streaming live events brings unique challenges, as millions of fans join our broadcasts in a short space of time. We are looking for a backend engineer who is passionate about building a modern, scalable and resilient platform and pushes the boundaries on playback excellence. We give you the autonomy over the software you build and freedom to choose the right tool for the job. In return, we expect you to take ownership of the system.
YOUR TEAM
The services owned by this team monitor fair usage of DAZN resources, enforcing rights restrictions set by our partners and protect users accounts from sharing or takeover.
As our new Senior Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to:
Design, build and maintain scalable microservices.
Collaborate with Architects and other Software Engineers to deliver a compelling user experience.
Deliver maintainable, robust and testable code.
Share knowledge and collaborate with other developers across the business.
Evolve and design the services that power and monitor our video streaming.
Partner with the other Software Engineering teams to create end to end solutions.
Mentor software engineers in design patterns and coding to standards.
You’ll be set up for success if you have:
Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Expert in Node.js 3+ years of experience. Enterprise experience with creating APIs using web frameworks (like Fastify or Express).
Experience working with GIT.
Writing unit/integration tests (understanding its value).
Code review culture.
Very good communication skills with people at all seniority levels (English required).
Even Better If You Have
Experience with cloud and/or microservices (preferred AWS).
Experience building services that handle high, spikey load.
Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery experience.
Worked in a “Build it, own it” model.
Infrastructure as code.
Service Monitoring.
Benefits Will Include
At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.
As part of our team you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop.
If you're ambitious, inventive, brave and supportive, then you're the kind of person who's going to enjoy life at DAZN.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, both inside and outside of our walls, that values equality and diversity and where everyone can contribute at the highest level and have their voices heard. For us, this means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities. We are supported by our talented Employee Resource Group communities: proud@DAZN, women@DAZN, disability@DAZN and ParentZONE.
If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.
Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.
We look forward to hearing from you.
