Senior Software Engineer - Backend/AWS

Senior Software Engineer – Backend (Node.js)

Location: Hyderabad, India | Work From Office (Monday–Friday)

About DAZN

At DAZN, we're redefining the way the world experiences sport. As the leading global sports entertainment platform, we deliver live and on-demand content to millions of fans across multiple devices and markets. Our engineering teams build scalable, cloud-native platforms that power world-class streaming experiences, leveraging modern technologies and agile ways of working. If you're passionate about solving complex technical challenges, building products at scale, and making a real impact, DAZN is the place for you.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Software Engineer/Systems analyst, you'll play a key role in designing, developing, and evolving the backend services that power DAZN's global platform. Working within a collaborative, cross-functional engineering team, you'll help build resilient, scalable, and high-performing solutions while driving engineering excellence through best practices, technical leadership, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services using Node.js and TypeScript, delivering secure and resilient solutions for millions of users worldwide.
• Develop and optimise RESTful and GraphQL APIs using frameworks such as NestJS and ExpressJS, ensuring high-quality, reusable, and maintainable code.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, QA, DevOps, Architecture, and UX teams to deliver customer-centric features from concept through production.
• Design and implement cloud-native, microservices-based applications leveraging modern engineering practices and AWS cloud services.
• Build efficient and scalable data models, integrating with both SQL and NoSQL databases while ensuring data integrity, performance, and reliability.
• Drive engineering excellence by contributing to Low-Level Design (LLD) discussions, creating and reviewing pseudocode, evaluating design patterns, and promoting clean architecture principles.
• Champion software quality through unit testing, code reviews, CI/CD best practices, and adherence to engineering standards.
• Monitor application health, troubleshoot production issues, and continuously optimise system performance, scalability, observability, and reliability.
• Contribute to technical design discussions, architectural decisions, and continuous improvement initiatives across the engineering organisation.
• Mentor junior engineers, share technical expertise, and foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing engineering culture.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, backend engineering trends, and industry best practices, proactively identifying opportunities to improve platform capabilities and developer productivity.