Senior Android Developer

General information about the client

Disney Hotstar is an Indian brand of subscription video ondemand overthetop streaming service operated by Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution a division of The Walt Disney Company. The brand was first introduced as Hotstar by Star India as a streaming service carrying content from its local networks including films television series live sports and original programming as well as featuring content licensed from thirdparties such as HBO and Showtime among others. Amid the significant growth of mobile broadband in India Hotstar quickly became the dominant streaming service in the country. Following the acquisition of Star Indias parent company 21st Century Fox by Disney in 2019 Hotstar was integrated with the companys new global streaming brand Disney as Disney Hotstar in April 2020. The cobranded service added Disney original programming and films and television series from its main content brands of Walt Disney Studios Pixar Marvel Studios Lucasfilm and National Geographic alongsidethe domestic and thirdparty content already carried on the platform. Outside of India the Disney Hotstar service also operates in Indonesia Malaysia and Thailand which similarly combines entertainment content licensed from local thirdparty studios with the larger Disney library.

About the Team

App Foundations team is about to abstract the client platformlevel complexities and enable feature teams to achieve fast immersive application rollouts across all major devices. Team is caring about performance scalability architecture capabilities reliability observability and stability of our platform and application all across the different teams and devices. Were looking for software developers in Android who has rich experience and a good understanding of the Android platform excited to design and implement features for our Android application. As a software development engineer youll be responsible for implementing various features and improving the stability of our application. While our reach till now has been impressive we are looking for technical & productaware engineers individuals who will define the future architecture of our platform providing technical and product expertise mentor and guide developers. Come and be a part of our highperformance Android team which is heavily focused on delivering an unmatchable user delight!

The position initiates with a fixed term contract for a period of six months which upon completion becomes an indefinite contract that requires a notice period of three months.

The pace of our growth is incredible if you want to tackle hard and interesting problems at scale and create an impact within an entrepreneurial environment join us!

Your Key Responsibilities:

You will influence how we build individual features and products and bring in best practices and patterns that can be used for engineering lifecycle for Android discipline

Youll take ownership of our continued efforts to scale mobile app development across Engineering providing valuable insight on how we can refine our processes and tools to support additional contributors in our architecture and code

Drive feature development for our wellrenowned apps for smartphones tablets and Android TVs

Take ownership of endtoend product quality from developing to maintaining core app frameworks that help make the apps more reliable and delightful

Create prototypes of new ideas and explore new technologies on the forefront of mobile technology

What to Bring

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related discipline preferred.

35 years of experience in Android mobile applications development with sound understanding of Android

Architecture Framework Android SDK Core Java Android Studio IDE Android Debugger

Handson experience in building mobile applications and mobility solutions native applications using Kotlin

Expert in UI components & controls; Action Bars Widgets Fragments etc.

Expert in basic components of Android: Activity Services Intent Broadcast Receiver Content Provider

Good working experience on Web Service Integration ( REST JSON XML) & cloud technologies AWS GAE GCM

Broad knowledge of a range of mobility areas such as Enterprise mobility Mobile applications pertaining to various domains like Retail VAS Media BFSI Healthcare Social Networking Ecommerce etc.

Experience in using analytics location and social APIs MDM payment gateway SMS gateway media content transcoding and cloud integration APM tools


Location: EU