Software Development Engineer II (Backend) Viewer Experience
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Job Summary
Job Summary: As an SDE-II youll build backend systems that power the most critical moments in a users journey from opening the app to experiencing personalized dynamic content to experiencing. Your primary focus will be on scaling our platform infrastructure architecting a state-of-the-art compositor engine and evolving a multi-widget server-driven layout system that constructs rich adaptive pages across all devices. Youll help ensure that hundreds of millions of users enjoy fast seamless and always-on experiences no matter the time traffic or device.
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:
- Own scale-critical paths ensuring the system can handle peak concurrency multi-region delivery and freshness guarantees
- Build the infrastructure & capabilities that serves as the orchestration layer between downstream services and client apps enabling faster experimentation seamless rollouts that works for every device & platform out there
- Develop the Compositor Engine that fetches and ranks content blocks (widgets/cards) merges metadata and serves highly contextualized page definitions to clients in milliseconds
- Collaborate with Product Data Science and Frontend teams on use cases like personalized feeds layouts and dynamic page composition
- Improve latency throughput and observability across all surfaces where UI is driven from the server including Homepage Watch pages and Detail views
- Contribute to platform primitives that are used by every other team including layout DSLs contract validation fallback mechanisms and preview tooling
- Participate in design discussions code reviews and on-call rotations maintaining high service reliability even during peak traffic
- Continuously evaluate relevant technologies and influence architecture and design discussionsGuides and mentors juniors on functional attributes and domain knowledge
Skills and attributes for success:
- Strong coding skills (Golang)
- Experience building or working with architectures for server driven & guided frameworks and Orchestrator platforms
- Strong understanding of database and storage fundamentals
- Performance tuning skills optimizing for low p90 latency high cache hit ratios and multi-region with AWS stack
Preferred education and experience:
- Bachelors/masters in computer science or a related field with 2-4 years of experience in backend development.
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
- Account Payable
- Apache Commons
- Community Support
- Corporate Risk Management
- Garment
- Java
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.
