Jiostar
Senior Software Development Engineer
India · Work style not stated · Full time
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- EmployerJiostar
- LocationIndia
- Work styleWork style not stated
- Employment typeFull time
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Job Title: Sr Software Development Engineer,Web - JioHotstar
Location: Onsite, Bangalore
Work Type: Full time
Job Summary:
As a Senior engineer, you’ll build a world-class content viewing experience for our customers by solving complex technical problems and building systems which run at an enormous scale. The role is expected to design and deliver high-quality distributed applications and also keep an extremely high operational excellence bar to provide a seamless experience to our customers on the JioHotstar website and TV applications.
About the team:
JioStar’s Ad Platform is among the top video advertising platforms in India - and we’re aiming higher. With deep expertise across Video-On-Demand, Live Sports, and Ad Monetization, our vision is to build the most effective and scalable adtech ecosystem in the world.
Our engineering team builds across the full adtech stack - from high-throughput backend services to deeply integrated, high-impact ad experiences on client platforms. Name a technology, and chances are we’ve worked with it. But more than the tools, it’s the problems we solve that make the work exciting.
If you’re excited about building fast, learning continuously, and working on a product that sits at the center of content, monetization, and user experience, we’d love to talk.
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Key responsibilities:
You will improve and add to our ever growing bucket of mind blowing features as an owner
Collaborate with stakeholders of the product to deliver new user-facing features on the website/app
You will ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and implement them
Own and lead a feature through design to delivery
Build reusable code and cross-functional libraries in contributing to our extensive in-house Design system. Review code and uphold coding standards
You will document and demonstrate solutions by creating documentation, DFDs, code comments
Support and mentor software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities
You will be responsible for making JioHotstar available in devices with constrained memory and network by continuous optimisations and pushing the web forward
Skills and attributes for success:
Strong experience in HTML, CSS and Javascript
Deep knowledge about how browsers work
Deep understanding about design & architecture patterns
Highly enthusiastic and enjoy learning new technologies and frameworks
You know why a framework is necessary and should have a strong command on modern frameworks, tools and libraries
Open source contribution is good to have
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git
Prior experience collaborating with external vendors is preferred.
Preferred education and experience:
Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field with 4-7 years of professional experience as a frontend developer with hands-on experience on Javascript.
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.
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