Manager Software Engineering - Android - Player Team Bangalore
Manager Software Engineering - Android - Player Team Bangalore
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Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery the stuff dreams are made of.
Who We Are
When we say the stuff dreams are made of were not just referring to the world of wizards dragons and superheroes or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBDs vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands are the storytellers bringing our characters to life the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating whats next
From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers across the globe WBD offers career defining opportunities thoughtfully curated benefits and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported here you are celebrated here you can thrive.
Manager Software Engineering Bangalore
About Warner Bros. Discovery:
Warner Bros. Discovery a premier global media and entertainment company offers audiences the worlds most differentiated and complete portfolio of content brands and franchises across television film streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Medias premium entertainment sports and news assets with Discoverys leading nonfiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.
For more information please visit www.wbd.
Meet Our Team:
We are the Product Engineering group for Direct2Consumer business and responsible for building OTT Player (HLS and DASH) for several Warner Bros 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 highperformance stable scalable Android applications JAVA / Kotlin tech stack HLS / DASH Players and expertise in Software Architecture / Design principles. You work with SDE3 to choose the right architecture and design patterns for solving the business problems. You lead a team of Player SDK developers and own their career progression. 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 selfcritical about your work and our product and have a continuous improvement mindset. You groom the backlog and estimations. You are obsessed about Operational Excellence and always strive for engineering excellence. You show good judgment making tradeoffs between immediate and longterm business needs.
Roles & Responsibilities:
You are experienced and capable of playing a leading role to design and develop major functional changes to existing software systems or new ones involving yourself and other Engineers.
You make good decisions and exercise accurate judgement when choosing to build new vs extending existing ones.
You provide guidance on design coding and operational best practices and have a trackrecord of applying these best practices to software that you have worked on
You propose and proactively seek to establish best practices where none exist.
You make high impact decisions driving what and how software is built.
You analyse requirements study software architectures and designs to make decisions suiting the requirements. You are often right and you are persuasive in delivering your suggestions and ideas to your team.
You mentor junior Engineers overseeing their designs code quality and integration into a team. Your success is judged as much on your own productivity as on the positive impact you have on Engineers around you.
You communicate through data dates and facts applying them as appropriate to motivate and inspire.
You are comfortable with scrum agile methodologies adapting best engineering practices by showing people not just telling people.
You are equally passionate about code testability as you are for writing methodical readable code.
What to Bring:
12 15 years experience in architecting and building applications using Android/IOS or Type Script stack. Broadcasting Video / OTT domain and Android App development background preferred.
Servant leadership Mentoring Coaching skills to build high performance engineering organization.
Sound understanding of Android/IOS MSE/EME Media3 Player APIs Gradle build etc.
Sound understanding of Kotlin Jetpack compose & modern android app development frameworks. Good to have knowledge of Kotlin multiplatform.
Data driven technical decisionmaking 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
Strong computer Science fundamentals in objectoriented 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
How We Get Things Done
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd/guidingprinciples/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit regardless of sex gender identity ethnicity age sexual orientation religion or belief marital status pregnancy parenthood disability or any other category protected by law.If youre a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
