Software Development Engineer II - iOS (Player)

Job Summary: As a Software Development Engineer II, you’ll build a world-class platform for our customers by solving complex technical problems and building systems which run at scale. You will play a critical role in developing code, and solve problems independently while shaping our next-gen solutions that drive our company’s mission forward. We seek candidates with a passion for crafting elegant code and building innovative software solutions.

About the team: Join our Player team to build and optimize world-class video playback experiences for millions of users on iOS and tvOS. If you’re passionate about streaming technology and delivering smooth, high-quality playback, join us!

Key responsibilities:

• Feature Development: Design and implement new features related to media playback, ensuring a seamless user experience.
• Architecture & Quality: Build performant and resilient applications and frameworks, promote engineering best practices, and contribute to core platform improvements and scalability.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, backend engineers, and QA to define, design, and ship high-impact features.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize app performance metrics, reduce crash rates, manage memory effectively, and ensure efficient, reliable code.
• Troubleshooting: Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve issues encountered across various Apple platforms in a production environment.
• Skills and attributes for success:
• Deep Expertise in iOS Development: Extensive experience building and scaling complex iOS applications using Swift (and sometimes Objective-C), with a strong grasp of UIKit, SwiftUI, Combine, and concurrency.
• Media Playback Knowledge: Experience with streaming technologies, protocols like HLS, DASH, and AVKit frameworks is highly valued.
• Technical Fundamentals: A strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, object-oriented programming, and various architectural patterns (e.g., MVVM, VIPER).
• Tools & Processes: Proficiency with unit testing frameworks, continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) systems, Git, and agile methodologies.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work in ambiguity and find solutions that balance technical and design constraints.

Preferred education and experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2-4 years of iOS dev (Swift).

**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.