Engineering Manager Viewer Experience
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Job Summary
Job Summary: As an Engineering Manager Personalization youll lead the engineering efforts behind some of the most critical systems in the user journey core recommendation infrastructure. You will own and evolve the core platforms that drive personalization at scale powering dynamic and contextual discovery experiences across the product. You will lead and take full ownership of a cross-functional team spanning Machine Learning Data Science and Engineering to define and drive the future of personalized experiences. Your work will push the boundaries of innovation in multi-objective ranking exploration strategies and real-time inference at scale.
About the team: At JioHotstar the Viewer Experience (VX) org is at the heart of how millions discover engage with and fall in love with our platform. We own the end-to-end user journeyfrom first app launch to daily habit loopsacross Search Personalization Watch Experience Interactivity and more. We blend world-class engineering ML design and data to deliver a seamless personalized and engaging OTT experience at massive scale. If youre passionate about building immersive intelligent and performant user experiences that delight a billion users join us in shaping the future of streaming.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead and scale the scale infra & recommendations platform owning critical systems that power retrieval ranking and core recommendation infrastructure for personalized experiences across the platform
- Drive the technical strategy and roadmap for core recommendation platformsoptimizing relevance exploration and user engagement through scalable low-latency real-time systems
- Architect backend services capable of serving hundreds of millions of users and handling massive concurrency spikes (e.g. 20x during live events) with sub-second latencies
- Partner with Product UX and Data Science to define build and experiment with personalization enablers and surface-level improvements that impact discovery and engagement funnels
- Elevate engineering standards by championing best practices in measuring model efficacy observability system resilience latency optimization cost efficiency and experimentation velocity
- Own and improve critical personalization metrics such as engagement upliftcoverage and precision/recall of ranked items
- Foster a high-performance culture centered around ownership first-principles thinking rapid iteration and a strong focus on end-user outcomes
- Hire mentor and grow a world-class engineering team driving career development and delivering robust high-quality impactful systems
- Create effective mechanisms to set goals for the team create execution plans and track progress against those. Youll collaborate with other Developers Program Managers and tech support teams in an agile environment to estimate and deliver objectives set together as a team
Skills and attributes for success:
- Experienced in managing software engineering team running core ML Infrastructure and/or Big Data platforms at scale
- Strong background in ML Ops data streaming feature stores model deployment or real-time processing
- Preferred experience includes exposure to: Recommender systems Information retrieval relevance and ranking and Large language models
- Should have experience as an individual contributor having engineered and shipped services & features at scale
- Expertise in any of the programming languages (Python or Java or Golang) and hands-on architectural or distributed systems experience
- Proven experience designing and scaling ML infrastructure or big data platforms in production
- Experience with Big Data & Real time processing systems - Spark Spark Streaming or Flink
- Experience with high scale databases - MySQL NoSQL (Scylla Cassandra Redis DynamoDB)
- Experience using any major cloud provider (AWS Azure or Google Cloud) for production applications
- Experience with CI/CD processes
- A strong track record of project delivery for large cross-functional projects and bringing in and growing engineering talent
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences
Preferred education and experience:
- Bachelors/masters in computer science or a related field with 8-11 years of experience in software development and 3 years of experience in managing software development team.
About Us
Perched firmly at the nucleus of spellbinding content and innovative technology JioStar is a leading global media & entertainment company that is reimagining the way audiences consume entertainment and sports. Its television network and streaming service together reach more than 750 million viewers every week igniting the dreams and aspirations of hundreds of million people across geographies.
JioStar is an equal opportunity employer. The company values diversity and its mission is to create a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. The company ensures that the work environment is free from any discrimination against persons with disabilities gender gender identity and any other characteristics or status that is legally protected.
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Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
JioStar combines the power of Reliance’s Viacom18 and Disney Star, delivering unmatched entertainment with 120+ TV channels and two leading streaming platforms. Explore a new era of content with JioStar.
