At TechBiz Global, we are providing recruitment service to our TOP clients from our portfolio. We are currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer who is responsible for leading complex, high-impact projects from initiation through delivery. The ideal candidate is a proactive leader with exceptional communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
**We are looking for a hands-on Software Architect to define, design, and help deliver a next-generation video content automation, scheduling and distribution platform used across our portfolio of 130+ YouTube channels. You will split your time between technical leadership (50%)—architecture, standards, planning, direction—and contributing code (50%) across backend services, automations, pipelines, and UI components.**
**You’ll work closely with the Product owner, end-users, and stakeholders across the business to translate complex operational workflows into scalable technical solutions. You will also directly manage a blend of onshore and offshore developers, ensuring clarity of tasks, code quality, and delivery velocity.**
**This is a strategic and highly technical role with real ownership and visible impact on the operations of the company. The team also manages a number of other critical infrastructure tools, analytics platforms and asset libraries that will also require software design leadership as we move through the our strategic technology roadmap.**
**Architecture & Technical Direction (50%)**
**Define the system architecture for our products, focussing on our scheduling and automation platform, spanning backend services, data pipelines, APIs, and UI layers.**
**Set technical standards for code quality, security, observability, CI/CD, and cloud deployment.**
**Build and maintain the architectural roadmap, ensuring scalability to >500 video uploads/week and multi-channel automation workflows.**
**Drive decisions on storage models, event flows, orchestration, API boundaries, and data schemas.**
**Own the technical implementation strategy for GCP-based components (BigQuery, Firestore, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Composer/Airflow).**
**Design frameworks for automation, title processing, workflow orchestration, and validation pipelines.**
**Leadership & Delivery Management**
**Work with the Director of DTP and PM to define the backlog, scope projects, and break work into clear deliverables.**
**Lead daily engineering operations across onshore and offshore teams, ensuring productivity and alignment.**
**Review and approve architecture proposals, pull requests, and system changes.**
**Mentor mid-level developers, set standards, and support their technical growth.**
**Help coordinate QA and release processes, ensuring stable, safe rollouts.**
**Hands-On Engineering (50%)**
**Contribute production-grade code in Python, TypeScript/React, and GCP environments.**
**Build backend services (Cloud Run / Cloud Functions), data pipelines, scheduling engines, and workflow automation.**
**Implement UI components in React/Next.js for dashboards, scheduling calendars, and admin tooling.**
**Optimise end-to-end performance of scheduling algorithms, metadata extraction flows, and content management workflows.**
**Stakeholder Engagement**
**Collaborate with channel managers, editors, rights teams, and operations stakeholders to understand real-world constraints.**
**Participate in user interviews and feedback loops to validate product assumptions.**
**Communicate technical trade-offs and prioritisation clearly to non-technical audiences.**
**Support PM in roadmap planning, phased delivery, and discovery cycles.**
**Required Skills & Experience**
**6+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years in senior or architect-level roles.**
**Strong hands-on experience with Python, including building production APIs and async workflows.**
**Solid experience with React / TypeScript for admin UIs and dashboards.**
**Deep understanding of GCP, including:**
**BigQuery**
**Firestore**
**Cloud Storage**
**Pub/Sub**
**Cloud Functions / Cloud Run**
**IAM & service accounts**
**Experience designing and scaling distributed systems, workflow engines, or scheduling/pipeline software.**
**Strong SQL and data modelling skills, ideally with analytics and ETL familiarity.**
**Demonstrated experience managing and coordinating offshore and onshore development teams.**
**Ability to balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery.**
**Nice-To-Have**
**Experience with media platforms, digital content pipelines, or YouTube CMS / YouTube API**
**Familiarity with ML/AI classification, embeddings, transcript-based tagging, or automation-first workflows.**
**Exposure to Airflow / Dagster / Prefect for orchestration.**
**Experience with high-throughput scheduling or rules engines.**
