Job Summary:
As a Software Development Engineer II, 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.
Key responsibilities:
- Own and deliver end-to-end features, ensuring high performance, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility
- Collaborate with stakeholders of the product to deliver new user-facing features on the website/TV app
- You will ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and implement them
- You will build reusable code and cross-functional libraries in contributing to our extensive in-house Design system
- Document and demonstrate solutions by creating documentation, DFDs, code comments
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code using best practices and participate in code reviews
Skills and attributes for success:
- Strong experience in JavaScript
- 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
Preferred education and experience:
- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field with 2-4 years of professional experience as a frontend developer with hands-on experience on Javascript.