Project Role : Custom Software Engineer
Project Role Description : Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.
Must have skills : Node.js
Good to have skills : AWS AI Services
Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary

As a Custom Software Engineering Lead specializing in Node.js and AWS development, you will design, build, and support scalable backend and BFF applications for OTT and digital media platforms. The role includes technical design, API development, AWS integration, performance optimization, production support, stakeholder management, and team mentoring.

Roles & Responsibilities

Act as Subject Matter Expert for Node.js and AWS development.
Design and develop backend and BFF services using Node.js and TypeScript.
Build RESTful and GraphQL APIs for catalog, metadata, entitlement, playback, and device management services.
Develop API aggregation layers for Web, Mobile, Smart TV, and Set-Top Box platforms.
Integrate AWS services including Lambda, ECS, EKS, Fargate, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, RDS, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, and Kinesis.
Define API contracts, data models, caching strategies, and resiliency patterns.
Lead feature delivery from design through deployment.
Develop maintainable TypeScript code and automated tests.
Manage dependencies, security updates, and platform upgrades.
Troubleshoot production incidents and perform root cause analysis.
Support deployments, release validation, and rollback activities.
Provide effort estimates, technical guidance, and risk assessments.
Mentor developers and collaborate with stakeholders.
Participate in on-call and production support activities.

Professional & Technical Skills

Must Have Skills

AWS Application Development (Primary Skill).
Node.js and TypeScript development.
RESTful API and GraphQL development.
Microservices architecture and distributed systems.
AWS Lambda, ECS, EKS, Fargate, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kinesis, CloudWatch, and IAM.
Express.js, Fastify, or NestJS.
Relational and NoSQL databases.
Jest, Mocha, Supertest, and API testing.
Git, CI/CD, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code.
Blue-Green and Canary deployments.
Production support, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Good To Have Skills

OTT, Streaming, Broadcast, or Digital Media platforms.
HLS, DASH, DRM, SSAI, CDN, and Video-on-Demand technologies.
AWS Elemental services and CloudFront.
GraphQL Federation and BFF architecture.
Kafka, Kinesis, EventBridge, and Step Functions.
Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
Kubernetes, EKS, Redis, and container orchestration.
Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, Elastic, and OpenTelemetry.
AWS Developer Associate or AWS Solutions Architect certification.
ServiceNow and ITSM process knowledge.

Additional Information

Minimum 8 years of relevant Node.js and AWS experience.
Total experience: 15 years (8+7 model).
AWS Developer is the mandatory primary skill.
Experience in Agile, DevOps, and cloud-native environments preferred.
Minimum 15 years of full-time education required.

15 years full time education

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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