DAZN

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.

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

• 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.

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.

Nice to Have

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.

About DAZN

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.

DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:

Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen.

Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact.

Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One.

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.

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.

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