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A legacy of entertainment, now united as one. Welcome to JioStar - where stories and experiences are infinite!
The Role
The Staff Software Development Engineer leads the development of high-performance systems and engaging UIs, optimizing applications for scalability, while providing mentorship to other developers.
Summary Generated by Built In
Job Summary: As a Staff Engineer, 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: 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.
Key responsibilities:
- Design and build applications to deliver a high-performance system and highly engaging UI
- You will work with the engineering team to optimize applications for performance and scalability across Mobile and Web
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Serves as the functional lead, possesses 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
- Build the next-generation user experience and the platforms required to enable intuitive content discovery for our customers
- Provide mentorship and guidance to other developers
Skills and attributes for success:
- Strong experience in HTML, CSS and Javascript
- Deep knowledge about how browsers work
- Deep understanding on optiimising applications for performance
- Deep understanding about design & architecture patterns
- Highly enthusiastic and enjoy learning new technologies and frameworks
- You know why a framework is necessary and should have a strong command on modern frameworks, tools and libraries
- Open source contribution is good to have
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git
Preferred education and experience:
- Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or a related field with 7-10 years of professional experience as a frontend developer.
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
CSS
Git
HTML
JavaScript
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A legacy of entertainment, now united as one. Welcome to JioStar - where stories and experiences are infinite!
