Technical Lead

Who We Are

Pinkvilla is India’s leading entertainment and lifestyle media company, reaching 50M+ monthly users across web, social, and video. From celebrity news to pop culture moments, Pinkvilla shapes how millions of Indians consume entertainment every day - through credible, engaging, and trend-led storytelling across formats.

Pinkvilla is part of the Flipkart Group.

Job description - Technical lead

Role Summary:

1. Product & Architecture Leadership

• Technical Roadmap:

  Partner with the Group Product Manager to turn ambitious ideas (like AI-generated video) into stable, scalable features. Own the end-to-end video lifecycle. Eg: resilient uploads (multipart/tus), server-side transcoding (FFmpeg/Elastic Transcoder), HLS/DASH packaging, and CDN optimization (CloudFront/Akamai) for low-latency playback across varying network conditions.

• System Design:

  Own the "big picture" architecture. You'll ensure our mobile app, backend, and database talk to each other seamlessly.

• Performance First:

  Be obsessed with speed. Whether it's how fast a video starts playing or how quickly the app opens, you set the gold standard for user experience.

2. Innovation: Video & AI

• Inference at Scale:

  Collaborate with AI partners to integrate Generative AI (Prompt-to-Video, Image-to-Video) into the user workflow

• Seamless Streaming:

  Build a world-class video engine that handles everything from high-quality uploads to smooth, buffer-free playback for a global audience.

• Safety at Scale:

  Implement smart, automated moderation tools to keep the community safe and high-quality.

• Pipeline Optimization:

  Build scalable wrappers around AI models to handle heavy inference loads, ensuring that AI-generated captions and moderation filters don't create bottlenecks in the content publishing flow.

3. Scalable Backend & analytical services:

• Design robust systems to manage complex, real-time tasks like social feeds and notifications using a modern, event-driven backend.

• Strategic Data Design:

  Oversee a diverse database strategy (SQL and NoSQL) to securely manage everything from user profiles to high-volume social activity and content graphs.

• Advanced Search & Discovery:

  Implement intelligent search and discovery tools to power trending content and hyperlocal feeds, ensuring users are always connected to relevant content.

What we are looking for

• Experience:

  8–10 years in software engineering, with at least 3 years leading teams or projects.

• Mobile & Backend Savvy:

  You should have a strong grasp of how modern mobile apps (iOS/Android) and cloud-based backends (AWS/GCP) work together.

• Consumer-Scale DNA:

  You’ve worked on products used by large audiences and understand the "growing pains" that come with scale.

• Communication Skills:

  You can explain complex technical hurdles to non-technical stakeholders without losing the "why" behind the decision

• Video Tech:

  Familiarity with how video is processed and delivered (streaming protocols, CDNs) is preferred

• Modern Stack:

  Comfort with languages like Node.js, Go, or Java, and modern mobile frameworks like Flutter or React Native.

• AI Curiosity:

  You don’t need to be an AI researcher, but you should understand how to integrate and scale AI models/APIs into a consumer app

Why Join Us?

• Impact: Build the tech backbone of Flipkart group’s most strategic product.
• Scale: Launch a product to a large scale audience from scratch and build for next generation
• Innovation: Work with the latest in Generative AI and Video tech.
• Culture: Complete ownership & high exposure to strategic conversations, we encourage founders thinking