This job listing expired on Apr 2, 2021
Tweet

We are Mobile Premier League (MPL), one of India’s largest esports and mobile gaming platforms. We hit 5 billion games played on MPL within a year of starting up and our current user base is over 60+ million. Some of our marquee investors include Sequoia Capital, Times Internet, and GoVentures. We currently have over 40 games on our platform, including major titles like PUBG, FreeFire, and World Cricket Championship. Multiple mainstream as well as Indie game developers are our partners.

With a robust business model that generates consistent revenue, a fast growing user base, and our platform model, we are a hyper-fast growing startup. We are currently active in India and Indonesia.

But you probably are more or less aware of the above, if you’re looking to work for us. However, let us tell you a little something about work at MPL: We are currently 250+ strong and easily one of the most diverse young workplaces you’ll find. Techies, MBAs, Product Managers, Lawyers, Ad-men, Journalists, CAs -- we have them all. And what keeps us going are the different skills and perspectives we bring to the table and how we learn from each other.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for ensuring that the architecture and design of the platform remains top-notch with respect to scalability, availability, reliability and maintainability
  • Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular mentoring. Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback.
  • Act as a technical architect as well as a hands-on technical manager of a team of engineers.
  • Own end-to-end availability and performance of features, driving rapid product innovation while ensuring a reliable service.
  • Working closely with the various stakeholders like Program Managers, Product Managers, Reliability and Continuity Engineering(RCE) team, QE team to estimate and plan projects in an agile environment
  • Responsible for setting up best practices for engineering and development. Lead by example and champion their adoption.
  • Maintain and drive tech backlog execution for non-functional requirements of the platform required to keep the platform resilient
  • Assist in release planning and prioritization based on technical feasibility and engineering constraints
  • A zeal to continually find new ways to improve architecture, design and ensure timely delivery and high quality

Requirements

  • Should have demonstrated experience as an Engineering Manager.
  • Thorough understanding of highly distributed, low latency and high throughput systems
  • Knowledge of globally distributed disaster-recovery enabled architectures
  • Solid understanding of cloud engineering (AWS preferably)
  • Expert knowledge of micro services stack and principles (12-factor app) and related network architectures
  • Experience of the best practices or REST(SpringBoot, jHipster, Dropwizard) and non-REST (gRPC) communication
  • Exceptional code reviewer and solid programmer (preferably Java)
  • Exposure to multiple kinds of data storage and retrieval strategies - Relational, Non relational, Document, Grabh, Object, Timeseries databases
  • Solid grip on CAP theorem, transactional consistency, distributed transactions, eventual consistency
  • Knowledge of essential distributed design patterns for backpressure, bulkhead, circuit breaker, event sourcing, CQRS, event driven architecture
  • Good knowledge of mid tier caching strategies
  • Understanding of Containerization, Orchestration and Service mesh frameworks (Kubernetes, Mesos, Ist.io, etc)
  • Good understanding of the best practices of API design
  • Champion of Engineering excellence - code reviews, unit tests, documentation of system design and architecture, etc
  • Computer Science or equivalent engineering graduate from a reputed college