Playback Engineer

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MAKE THINGS HAPPEN:

Are you ready to unleash your potential Were on the lookout for driven individuals who thrive on setting ambitious goals taking ownership and working with a relentless sense of urgency to achieve remarkable results.

NO EGO:

Our company embraces a culture of humility at all levels. We value collaboration and making decisions that benefit the greater good. We appreciate individuals who bring honesty respect and professionalism to the table. We work shoulder to shoulder because were re-thinking TV together!

SHOW GENUINE PASSION:

Passion is the secret ingredient to our success! Were searching for people who are not just passionate but genuinely obsessed with their work. If youre the type to devour the latest articles spend your free time researching and taking courses and constantly seek ways to grow and learn then youll fit right in. Our passionate individuals learn fast work hard and inspire those around them with their positive energy.

Culture and environment are at the heart of our ethos. If the above resonates with you keep reading because we believe you could be a perfect addition to our incredible team!

Company Overview

We are a new and innovative CTV OS challenging the status quo by working with a market leading OEM to provide content discovery for streaming platforms as well as integrating FAST channels alongside traditional broadcast TV channels. We are gearing up for rapid expansion across European markets.

Position Summary

As a Playback Engineer on our Smart TV SDK team youll own the end-to-end media-playback experience in JavaScript. Youll integrate and optimize Shaka Player HLS streams and telemetry hooks to deliver smooth reliable video across millions of connected TVs.

Key Responsibilities

Playback Integration & Optimization

• Embed and configure Shaka Player (or equivalent) within our Smart TV SDKs to support HLS/DASH streams.
• Profile and fine-tune buffer management adaptive-bitrate switching and startup time on TV hardware.

Streaming Protocols & DRM

• HLS manifests segment loading logic and encryption key rotation.
• Collaborate with backend teams to integrate DRM (Widevine PlayReady) and secure license flows.

Analytics & Instrumentation

• Design and ship client-side telemetry for playback metrics (startup time buffering rate error codes).
• Integrate with analytics pipelines (e.g. sending events to our backend third-party services).

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Work closely with firmware backend and QA to validate playback behavior across devices and firmware versions.
• Participate in sprint planning architecture reviews and code reviews to shape our long-term streaming roadmap.

Quality & Reliability

• Establish SLAs/KPIs for key playback metrics; monitor report and own remediation for regressions.
• Write and maintain automated end-to-end playback tests (emulating network conditions error recovery).

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience building media-playback applications in JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Hands-on with Shaka Player or similar JS-based players.
• Understanding of HLS (master/media playlists TS/fMP4 segments) and DASH formats.
• Experience integrating client-side DRM (Widevine PlayReady) in web/TV environments.
• Proven ability to instrument applications for real-time playback analytics.
• Strong command of performance profiling tools in browser and embedded contexts.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.

Desirable skills

• Experience with Smart TV platforms (Tizen WebOS Roku) and their SDKs.
• Understanding of the TV firmware playback pipeline internals (GStreamer media frameworks decoder integration hardware abstraction layers specific to video/audio rendering).
• Familiarity with streaming-analytics services (Youbora Conviva).
• Hands-on DRM (Widevine PlayReady): manifest encryption license acquisition flows key rotation secure-path integration.

Reasons to apply:

• Change the future of TV! A unique opportunity to join a well-funded high growth company in the early stages to help to shape a product/business that will impact millions.
• Opportunity to work outside of your comfort zone & develop professionally in an exciting & rapidly growing video streaming industry.
• Work in a diverse & international environment.

If youre excited about this position dont hesitate to apply. Were waiting for you to join us!