Job Description
Overview:
Software Development Engineer III - Android Video Player team , Bangalore
About Warner Bros. Discovery:
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Warner Bros Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.
For more information, please visit www.wbd.com
Meet Our Team:
We are the Product Engineering group for Direct-2-Consumer business, and responsible for building OTT Player (HLS and DASH) for several Warner Media and Discovery products across 17 different platforms. We build Player SDK for Android, Apple, Desktop, HWA and STB platforms to provide seamless integration experience to the WBD applications.
The ideal candidate has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable Android applications, JAVA / Kotlin tech stack, HLS / DASH Players and expertise in Software Architecture / Design principles. You choose the right architecture and design patterns for solving the business problems. You own the quality of the Software product. You are customer obsessed and always challenge yourself to provide the best quality playback experience to the WBD users. You are a team player and collaborate with peers and mentor SDEs. You are self-critical about your work and our product and have a continuous improvement mindset. You help your SDM in grooming the backlog and estimations. You are obsessed about Operational Excellence and always strive for engineering excellence. You show good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
Responsibilities:
Roles & Responsibilities:
Build product features in close collaboration with TPM, SDM and product stakeholders.
Advocate best practices for Player Architecture, Design & Development.
Work with internal and external stakeholders in architecting, designing and developing the Player SDK.
Own all aspects of the product development from concept, and drive it through development, testing, acceptance, adoption and iterative changes
Sheer focus on Operational excellence and metrics driven.
Focus on Engineering excellence, keep tab on Architecture / Design trends, Always look out for improvement scopes, keep tab on Protocol spec & suggest new features.
Be Self Critical about your work and obsessed about continuous improvement.
Customer Obsession - Anyone who uses Player SDK is your customer, always respond positively to your internal customers (Testers, Client App Developers, Product Managers, etc) & be receptive to feedback, be obsessed to improve playback experience for end users.
Qualifications:
What to Bring:
10-15 years’ experience in Broadcasting Video / OTT domain and architecting native applications for Android, iOS ecosystem
Sound understanding of Android/TV Architecture, Media Framework, Media Player APIs, EXO Player API, Android SDK, Core Java, Android Studio IDE, Android Debugger, Android Open Source, Kotlin
Data driven technical decision making skills for architecture and design of new product features
Eye to details and identify optimization scope for performance improvements.
Experience in DevOps/SRE practices such as CI/CD, performance monitoring & incident management
Mentoring, Coaching skills to build the succession for architecture and design
Good understanding of the basic components of Android: Activity, Services, Intent, Broadcast Receiver, Content Provider, UI components & controls.
Familiar with Web Service Integration (REST, JSON) and REST concepts
Strong computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
Good verbal & written communication skills
What We Offer:
A Great Place to work
Equal opportunity employer
Fast track growth opportunities
Software Development Engineer III - Android Video Player team , Bangalore
About Warner Bros. Discovery:
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Warner Bros Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.
For more information, please visit www.wbd.com
Meet Our Team:
We are the Product Engineering group for Direct-2-Consumer business, and responsible for building OTT Player (HLS and DASH) for several Warner Media and Discovery products across 17 different platforms. We build Player SDK for Android, Apple, Desktop, HWA and STB platforms to provide seamless integration experience to the WBD applications.
The ideal candidate has a track record of having built multiple high-performance, stable, scalable Android applications, JAVA / Kotlin tech stack, HLS / DASH Players and expertise in Software Architecture / Design principles. You choose the right architecture and design patterns for solving the business problems. You own the quality of the Software product. You are customer obsessed and always challenge yourself to provide the best quality playback experience to the WBD users. You are a team player and collaborate with peers and mentor SDEs. You are self-critical about your work and our product and have a continuous improvement mindset. You help your SDM in grooming the backlog and estimations. You are obsessed about Operational Excellence and always strive for engineering excellence. You show good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.
Responsibilities:
Roles & Responsibilities:
Build product features in close collaboration with TPM, SDM and product stakeholders.
Advocate best practices for Player Architecture, Design & Development.
Work with internal and external stakeholders in architecting, designing and developing the Player SDK.
Own all aspects of the product development from concept, and drive it through development, testing, acceptance, adoption and iterative changes
Sheer focus on Operational excellence and metrics driven.
Focus on Engineering excellence, keep tab on Architecture / Design trends, Always look out for improvement scopes, keep tab on Protocol spec & suggest new features.
Be Self Critical about your work and obsessed about continuous improvement.
Customer Obsession - Anyone who uses Player SDK is your customer, always respond positively to your internal customers (Testers, Client App Developers, Product Managers, etc) & be receptive to feedback, be obsessed to improve playback experience for end users.
Qualifications:
What to Bring:
10-15 years’ experience in Broadcasting Video / OTT domain and architecting native applications for Android, iOS ecosystem
Sound understanding of Android/TV Architecture, Media Framework, Media Player APIs, EXO Player API, Android SDK, Core Java, Android Studio IDE, Android Debugger, Android Open Source, Kotlin
Data driven technical decision making skills for architecture and design of new product features
Eye to details and identify optimization scope for performance improvements.
Experience in DevOps/SRE practices such as CI/CD, performance monitoring & incident management
Mentoring, Coaching skills to build the succession for architecture and design
Good understanding of the basic components of Android: Activity, Services, Intent, Broadcast Receiver, Content Provider, UI components & controls.
Familiar with Web Service Integration (REST, JSON) and REST concepts
Strong computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
Good verbal & written communication skills
What We Offer:
A Great Place to work
Equal opportunity employer
Fast track growth opportunities
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Software Development Engineer III | Android Video Player team position is now open for candidates interested in the Android Developer Jobs sector. This role in Bengaluru offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Android Developer Jobs is a plus.