FanCode is India’s premier digital sports destination, dedicated to delivering a best-in-class experience for fans across live and non-live sports. Launched in March 2019 by industry veterans Yannick Colaco and Prasana Krishnan, FanCode has reached over 160 million users. The platform features a wide array of global and domestic sporting leagues, in partnership with leading sports associations. FanCode offers interactive live streaming through industry-first subscription models, including Match, Bundle, and Tour Passes, as well as monthly and annual plans at accessible price points. Some of the marquee properties include La Liga, Formula 1, MotoGP, cricket leagues from around the globe including CPL, Super Smash amongst others.
Dream Sports, India’s leading Sports Technology company, is the parent company of FanCode, with brands such as Dream11, and DreamSetGo in its portfolio.
Role Overview:
We are building a next-generation, high-performance video platform that powers live sports streaming at massive scale. As a Backend Engineer in the Video Engineering team, you will design and build distributed systems that handle real-time ingest, encoding, packaging, storage, and delivery of live video to millions of fans.
You will work across AWS Media Services and Cloud, GCP cloud, and internal video platform components including our custom video stack. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving deep technical challenges in video systems, distributed backend architectures, and real-time data flows.
What you'll do:Collaborate with Video Operations, Player, and Platform teams to ensure reliability, observability, and world-class streaming quality.Being part of a lean backend team which has streamed over 50,000 hours of live content.Building high performance and scalable software platforms for a global productDeveloping and owning product components – from inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re-architecturesWork with leaders in Product and Engineering to drive and implement platform and product visionContinuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to improve development efficiencyMust haves:4–7 years of backend engineering experience using Java, Go, Node.js, or equivalent.Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, memory-efficient programming, and performance optimization.Experience building REST APIs, microservices, and containerized services (Docker/Kubernetes).Strong SQL and NoSQL database knowledge.Solid debugging skills in cloud-native environments (logs, metrics, tracing).Dream Sports, India’s leading sports technology company, powers the fan journey for 300 million sports fans across entertainment, content, gaming, travel, AI, and grassroot sports development. Its portfolio includes
Dream11, a sports entertainment platform;
FanCode, India’s digital sports destination;
DreamSetGo, India’s premium sports travel and experiences platform; Dream Cricket, an AAA mobile sports game;
Dream Horizon, our battle-tested tech, now open-sourced & free for all; Dream Sports AI, reimagining sports with AI, and Dream Money, empowering every Indian to grow their net-worth. The company is also home to the
Dream Sports Foundation, its philanthropic arm.
Founded in 2008 by Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth, Dream Sports is headquartered in Mumbai.
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