The Senior Staff Software Development Engineer will lead technical projects, solve complex challenges, optimize systems for performance and scalability, and mentor other developers within a high-scale distributed microservices environment.
Job Summary: As a Senior Staff engineer, the role entails a passion to contribute significantly to the design of platforms by solving complex technical problems and building systems that run at an enormous scale. Your skills will be essential in addressing intricate technical challenges, constructing scalable systems, and guiding the team to realize their maximum potential!
About the team: JioHotstar's world-record-breaking OTT platform is available in India, the international market. We are home to India's largest entertainment content catalog for the Indian diaspora in the UK. We are hiring senior engineers for our UK and international teams to develop systems that drive business growth in the country. This is a unique opportunity to work across the JioHotstar tech stack and work on the most impactful projects. You will contribute to the common stack, build frameworks to offer geography-specific differentiated features and create subscriber and business growth platform for the company.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serves as the functional lead, possess deep knowledge of core systems and takes full responsibility for the team's code, design, and project delivery, ensuring high quality and on-time completion
- Tackles complex technical challenges independently for complex systems, demonstrating technical depth and proficiency in multiple programming languages
- Identify and address performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, and areas for optimization
- Contribute to architectural discussions, propose innovative solutions, and evaluate trade-offs to make informed technical decisions
- Collaborate with product managers to decompose large projects into manageable tasks and prioritize work effectively
- Build the next-generation user experience and the platforms required to enable intuitive content discovery for our customers
- Work with the engineering team to optimize applications for performance and scalability across various platforms, Mobile, Web, and Living Room devices
- Provide mentorship and guidance to other developers
Skills & Attributes for success:
- Strong coding and designing skills (Java or Golang)
- Experience in building high-scale distributed domain-driven microservices
- Proficiency with databases like MySQL, NoSql (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB)
- Embrace new technologies and work with various tools and technologies to achieve the desired functionality
- Experience with AWS stacks like SQS, Dynamo DB, EKS, Aurora, etc. will be an added advantage
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex issues in production environments
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders and collaborate well within a team environment to achieve desired results
Preferred Education & Experience:
- B-Tech or M-Tech in Computer Science or a related technical discipline from a reputed university.
- 9-12 years of progressive experience in software development, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects on time.
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
Top Skills
Aurora
AWS
Cassandra
DynamoDB
Eks
Go
Java
MySQL
Redis
Sqs
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