Summary: Seeking a Senior Software Engineer and hands-on Software Architect to lead, design, and deliver a next-generation video content platform, balancing technical leadership and coding contributions. Highlights: 1. Strategic and highly technical role with real ownership and visible impact. 2. Define, design, and deliver a next-generation video content automation platform. 3. Balance technical leadership (50%) with hands-on coding (50%) 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.**