Senior Software Development Engineer - Android

Hotstar, Bangalore/Mumbai/ Gurgaon

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About the Role

At Hotstar, we have over 300 million users and capture close to a billion click stream messages daily. The engineering team at Hotstar is at the centre of the action and is responsible for creating unmatched user experience. Our engineers solve real life complex problems and create compelling experiences for our customers.

In this role, you will lead architecture and ship high performance, reliable code which helps us deliver awesome experience to our end users. While our reach till now has been impressive, we are looking for individuals who will define the future architecture of our platform, providing technical and product expertise, mentor and guide developers.

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
You’ll 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 well-renowned apps for smartphones and tablets
Take ownership of end-to-end 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. 5-6 years of experience in Android mobile applications development with sound understanding of Android Architecture, Framework, Android SDK, Core Java, Android Studio IDE, Android Debugger
Hands-on experience in building mobile applications and mobility solutions – native applications
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, E-commerce etc.
Experience in using analytics, location and social APIs, MDM, payment gateway, SMS gateway, media content transcoding and cloud integration, APM tools

To learn more about our team, check out the following blogs : https://tech.hotstar.com/

About Hotstar

About us Hotstar is one of the fastest growing video-on-demand services in the world. Our sophisticated video streaming technology and attention to detail on user experience across multiple devices makes us the top video destination for TV Shows, Movies, and LIVE Sports. With 85,000 hours of content in 8 languages, 100 Million downloads in a year, and a rapidly exploding watch time, our mission is to revolutionize Internet entertainment and become the largest personalized television service in the world.