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Staff Software Engineer - iOS

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Warner Bros. Discovery logoWarner Bros. Discovery · Bangalore - Embassy Tech Village
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A Great Place to workEqual opportunity employerFast track growth opportunitiesHow We Get Things Done...Vision insurance

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Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery... the stuff dreams are made of. Who We Are... When we say, "the stuff dreams are made of," we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next... From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive. Staff Software Engineer - IOS, Player Team - Bangalore About Warner Bros. Discovery: Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. For more information, please visit www.wbd.com 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 70+ 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 Apple applications, Swift tech stack, HLS / DASH Players and expertise in Software Architecture / Design principles. You choose the right architecture and design patterns for solving the business problems. You own the quality of the Software product. 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 mentor SDEs. You are self-critical about your work and our product and have a continuous improvement mindset. You help your SDM 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 TPM, SDM and product stakeholders. Advocate best practices for Player Architecture, Design & Development. Work with internal and external stakeholders in architecting, designing and developing the Player SDK. 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 trends, Always look out for improvement scopes, keep tab on Protocol spec & suggest new features. 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 What to Bring: 9-12 years' experience in Broadcasting Video / OTT domain and architecting native applications for Apple ecosystem Sound understanding of Apple/TV Architecture, Media Framework, Media Player APIs, AV Foundation API, Apple SDK, Swift, Debugger Data driven technical decision-making skills for architecture and design of new product features. Eye to details and identify optimization scope for performance improvements. Experience in DevOps/SRE practices such as CI/CD, performance monitoring & incident management Mentoring, Coaching skills to build the succession for architecture and design. 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 Strong computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis. Good verbal & written communication skills


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