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Software Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Posted 6+ months ago

Goldcast is a digital events platform for B2B marketers. More than 300 global enterprises across tech, professional services, manufacturing, and finance use Goldcast to deliver engaging digital and hybrid event experiences for their customers and prospects and drive measurable results through them.

Goldast was founded in mid-2020 at Harvard Business School. Since then, we have raised over $40mn, built a bi-continental team of excellent teammates, and are one of the market leaders in the enterprise digital events space. We count companies such as LG, Adobe, 6Sense, Workday, Zuora, BitSight, Drift, ThoughtSpot, and Clari as customers and were recently featured in G2's list of 100 fastest-growing software companies.

Our sharp market focus and positioning around efficiency & measurability means we are growing really fast, still hiring, have a comfortable runway of 30+ months, and a clear line of sight to quadrupling in the next 2 years.

Get to know us better 👉 https://www.goldcast.io/

Primary responsibilities-

Be accountable for the technical architecture of all the applications.
Ensure architecture meets appropriate correctness and non-functional requirements.
Advice engineering teams on the correct usage of databases, data modelling, and querying.
Help with technical assessment of existing infrastructure and services and their viability.

Responsible for technical governance & leadership:

Review technical designs and provide feedback to the teams balancing the short-term needs with long-term maintainability.
Ensure structured architecture and design reviews process by filling in the necessary resource and skill gaps.
Ensure the right guidelines and process for effective code reviews.
Ensure the right monitoring and alerting benchmarks for appropriate metrics for all APIs, services, & components.

Responsible for technical innovation and key projects:

Evaluate new technologies, if necessary by doing POCs, etc.
Build new features or product prototypes based on experimental new technologies such as GenAI and machine learning
Advice on product roadmap based on what is feasible with state of the art technology.
Lead a team to contribute in the initial phases of new complex projects in various aspects such as the setup of codebases for new technologies.

Required Experience & Skillset:

Demonstrated strong technical leadership with 12+ years of work experience in product development
Excellent understanding building APIs. Bonus points for working with Python and Golang API frameworks.
Strong understanding of physical and logical aspects of the performance of RDBMS and No-SQL database systems and profiling such systems to optimize and identify bottlenecks. Experience with PostgreSQL is a plus.
Have experience with implementing microservice architecture and a strong understanding of event-driven systems and other such architectural patterns.
Experience with video streaming technologies like WebRTC, RTMP, HLS is a big plus.
Working knowledge of running large scale distributed systems on AWS cloud. Experience with AWS technologies like Lambda, SQS, SNS, Cognito, S3 is preferred.
Experience working with highly available systems with 4 nines or 5 nines availability.
Excellent oral and written communication

Why Goldcast?

- Work on the most modern tech stack at the frontier of two of the hottest technology trends: Video and Mar-tech.

- Market leading compensation: salary plus equity

- Opportunity to work with tech’s best talent spread across 5 continents: team mates come from the likes of LinkedIn, Amazon, InMobi, Zynga, BCG.

- An incredible culture with a great blend of hustle, productivity and a ton of fun.

- Potential opportunities to travel to the US

We are committed to assembling an unrivaled team of operators, designers, technologists, and adventurers who aim to create something magical on the cross roads of video communication and martech. As an early crew member, you'll have enormous impact on both our product and company culture. If you're excited about our mission, and believe you might be a fit, we'd love to hear from you!