Senior Software Engineer - Android, Bangalore
Senior Software Engineer - Android, 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.
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
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 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
guide SDEIs. You help your architect in grooming 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:
Build product features in close collaboration with architects and product
stakeholders.
Advocate best practices for Player Design & Development.
Work with internal and external stakeholders in developing and designing the
Player SDK.
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.
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 practices
Always look out for improvement scopes keep tab on Protocol spec & suggest
new features.
What to Bring :
47 years experience in developing native Android applications in Kotlin.
Handson experience in building native Android applications and mobility
solutions.
Good in modern android development frameworks Jetpack compose
understanding of MVVM Clean architecture etc.
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
Eye to details and identify optimization scope for performance improvements.
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
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.
Selfconfident selfstarter proactive in setting and meeting goals with
limited supervision
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 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:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
