Senior Software Engineer Android, Player Team Bangalore

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Senior Software Engineer - Android 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 non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

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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 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 high-performance 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 SDE-Is. 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 trade-offs between immediate and long-term 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:

• 4-7 years experience in developing native Android applications in Kotlin.

• Hands-on experience in building native Android applications and mobility solutions.

• 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 object-oriented design algorithm design problem solving and complexity analysis.

• Self-confident self-starter 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.

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