Engineering @ JioCinema
Our engineering team defines the technical architecture and drives itself to build systems that serve billions of requests per day, cosmic scales of video content streamed every day, with ultra-low latency design and high reliability. We make sure every byte of video content gets to millions of viewers, at the highest quality possible. We are growing fast and looking for talented Engineers who are up for one of the biggest yet outcomes in the video streaming business as we gun to be the primary destination for digital first entertainment in India and make JioCinema accessible to every Indian.
What will you do?
- Design & Development: Spearhead the design, development, and maintenance of advanced application features for the JioCinema Android app, ensuring alignment with the latest industry standards and best practices.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to define, design, and ship new features, ensuring a cohesive app experience.
- Performance Tuning: Optimize application performance, addressing bottlenecks, and ensuring the smooth functioning of the app across various devices and Android versions.
- Code Review: Lead code reviews, maintain code quality, and instill best practices among the team, ensuring scalable and maintainable code.
- Testing: Collaborate with the QA team to define and implement robust testing procedures. Fix bugs swiftly to ensure a flawless user experience.
- Integration: Seamlessly integrate third-party libraries and APIs, and ensure that the app remains compatible with the latest Android updates.
- Mentorship: Guide, coach, and mentor junior team members, fostering an environment of continuous learning and innovation.
- Innovation: Research and implement new technologies, tools, and methods to improve the efficiency and quality of the JioCinema Android application.
What are we looking for?
- 8+ years of experience in building mobile applications.
- In-depth understanding of Android SDK, Java and Kotlin.
- Working idea of multiple app frameworks MVVM, MVI, MVP and understanding their tradeoffs.
- Inclination to work with declarative UI frameworks like Jetpack Compose.
- Having past experience with Android’s media stack and ExoPlayer is a bonus.
About JioCinema
Viacom18’s JioCinema is not just a streaming service; it's a movement, ushering in a new era of entertainment and sports consumption. It aspires to push beyond the traditional OTT platform boundaries, to offer an immersive, interactive viewing experience that transcends conventional viewing. JioCinema integrates real-time streaming, interactive features, and personalized recommendations, to build a more engaging and satisfying viewer experience. All of this while it continues to smash records for concurrent ‘live sports’ viewership and billions of digital views.
On sports, JioCinema is home to some of the biggest live sporting events such as the IPL, and global sporting IPs like FIFA, LaLiga, amongst others. On entertainment, JioCinema boasts of a robust and diverse repository of riveting originals, digital film premieres, reality series, regional content, network content and curated entertainment and sporting content, all available for free. This along with the recently introduced subscription segment presents real-time uninterrupted streaming of premium global titles from leading studios like Warner Bros. Discovery, NBCUniversal, and JioStudios establish JioCinema as the ultimate entertainment destination. As JioCinema strides towards its goal of becoming India's largest and most loved entertainment company, it is not just focused on size, but on the quality and diversity of the experiences provided. JioCinema is on a mission to ensure that every story, every game, and every piece of content finds its audience and that every audience finds its passion.
JioCinema is available for Android, iOS, and for web users on https://www.jiocinema.com
Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd. is one of India’s fastest-growing entertainment networks and a house of iconic brands that offers multi-platform, multi-generational, and multicultural brand experiences. Viacom18 defines entertainment in India by touching the lives of people through its properties on air, online, on the ground, in cinemas, and merchandise. Its portfolio of 38 channels across general entertainment, movies, sports, youth, music, and kids genres delights consumers across the country with its eclectic mix of programming. JioCinema, Viacom18’s OTT platform, is one of India’s leading streaming services and most popular destination for live sports. Viacom18 Studios has successfully produced and distributed iconic Hindi films and clutter-breaking regional films for over 13 years in India.
