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Experience : 6.00 + years Salary : INR 6000000-6500000 / year (based on experience) Expected Notice Period : 15 Days Shift : (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST) Opportunity Type : Remote Placement Type : Full Time Permanent position(Payroll and Compliance to be managed by: Crop.Photo) (*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers' client - Crop.Photo) What do you need for this opportunity? Must have skills required: MAM, App integration Crop.Photo is Looking for: Technical Lead for Evolphin AI-Driven MAM At Evolphin, we build powerful media asset management solutions used by some of the world’s largest broadcasters, creative agencies, and global brands. Our flagship platform, Zoom, helps teams manage high-volume media workflows—from ingest to archive—with precision, performance, and AI-powered search. We’re now entering a major modernization phase, and we’re looking for an exceptional Technical Lead to own and drive the next-generation database layer powering Evolphin Zoom. This is a rare opportunity to take a critical backend system that serves high-throughput media operations and evolve it to meet the scale, speed, and intelligence today’s content teams demand. What you’ll own Leading the re-architecture of Zoom’s database foundation with a focus on scalability, query performance, and vector-based search support Replacing or refactoring our current in-house object store and metadata database to a modern, high-performance elastic solution Collaborating closely with our core platform engineers and AI/search teams to ensure seamless integration and zero disruption to existing media workflows Designing an extensible system that supports object-style relationships across millions of assets, including LLM-generated digital asset summaries, time-coded video metadata, AI generated tags, and semantic vectors Driving end-to-end implementation: schema design, migration tooling, performance benchmarking, and production rollout—all with aggressive timelines Skills & Experience We Expect We’re looking for candidates with 7–10 years of hands-on engineering experience, including 3+ years in a technical leadership role. Your experience should span the following core areas: System Design & Architecture (3–4 yrs) Strong hands-on experience with the Java/JVM stack (GC tuning), Python in production environments Led system-level design for scalable, modular AWS microservices architectures Designed high-throughput, low-latency media pipelines capable of scaling to billions of media records Familiar with multitenant SaaS patterns, service decomposition, and elastic scale-out/in models Deep understanding of infrastructure observability, failure handling, and graceful degradation Database & Metadata Layer Design (3–5 yrs) Experience redesigning or implementing object-style metadata stores used in MAM/DAM systems Strong grasp of schema-less models for asset relationships, time-coded metadata, and versioned updates Practical experience with DynamoDB, Aurora, PostgreSQL, or similar high-scale databases Comfortable evaluating trade-offs between memory, query latency, and write throughput Semantic Search & Vectors (1–3 yrs) Implemented vector search using systems like Weaviate, Pinecone, Qdrant, or Faiss Able to design hybrid (structured + semantic) search pipelines for similarity and natural language use cases Experience tuning vector indexers for performance, memory footprint, and recall Familiar with the basics of embedding generation pipelines and how they are used for semantic search and similarity-based retrieval Worked with MLOps teams to deploy ML inference services (e.g., FastAPI/Docker + GPU-based EC2 or SageMaker endpoints) Understands the limitations of recognition models (e.g., OCR, face/object detection, logo recognition), even if not directly building them Media Asset Workflow (2–4 yrs) Deep familiarity with broadcast and OTT formats: MXF, IMF, DNxHD, ProRes, H.264, HEVC Understanding of proxy workflows in video post-production Experience with digital asset lifecycle: ingest, AI metadata enrichment, media transformation, S3 cloud archiving Hands-on experience working with time-coded metadata (e.g., subtitles, AI tags, shot changes) management in media archives Cloud-Native Architecture (AWS) (3–5 yrs) Strong hands-on experience with ECS, Fargate, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, SQS, EventBridge Experience building serverless or service-based compute models for elastic scaling Familiarity with managing multi-region deployments, failover, and IAM configuration Built cloud-native CI/CD deployment pipelines with event-driven microservices and queue-based workflows Frontend Collaboration & React App Integration (2–3 yrs) Worked closely with React-based frontend teams, especially on desktop-style web applications Familiar with component-based design systems, REST/GraphQL API integration, and optimizing media-heavy UI workflows Able to guide frontend teams on data modeling, caching, and efficient rendering of large asset libraries Experience with Electron for desktop apps How to apply for this opportunity? 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