Senior Software Development Engineer - Web

Viacom18 Media Pvt Ltd

Bengaluru/Bangalore

Not disclosed

Work from Office

Full Time

Min. 5 years

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Senior Software Development Engineer - Web (VX)

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: At JioHotstar, the Viewer Experience (VX) org is at the heart of how millions discover, engage with, and fall in love with our platform. We own the end-to-end user journey—from first app launch to daily habit loops—across Search, Personalization, Watch Experience, Interactivity, and more. We blend world-class engineering, ML, design, and data to deliver a seamless, personalized, and engaging OTT experience at massive scale. If you're passionate about building immersive, intelligent, and performant user experiences that delight a billion users, join us in shaping the future of streaming.

What will you do?

  • 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

    • Who should apply for this role?

  • Strong experience in Javascript language, especially React
  • 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 know any of React, AngularJS etc
  • Open source contribution is good to have
  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git
  • Familiarity with front-end build tools, such as Grunt or Gulp


    • 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.

     JioStar is an equal opportunity employer. The company values diversity and its mission is to create a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. The company ensures that the work environment is free from any discrimination against persons with disabilities, gender, gender identity and any other characteristics or status that is legally protected.

    Job role

    Work location

    Bengaluru

    Department

    Software Engineering

    Role / Category

    Frontend Development

    Employment type

    Full Time

    Shift

    Day Shift

    Job requirements

    Experience

    Min. 5 years

    About company

    Name

    Viacom18 Media Pvt Ltd

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