Staff Engineer

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than computer code. As a member of the Dolby team, you’ll see and hear the results of your work everywhere, from movie theaters to smartphones. We continue to revolutionize how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that, we need the absolute best talent. We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits.

Dolby is investing in cloud streaming solutions with enterprise customers for iGaming and Sports streaming use cases. As a Staff SDK engineer in Dolby Cloud solutions, you will specialize in media streaming stacks available on Android TV Platforms and Android portable devices.

This is a senior developer role and requires deep knowledge in Android devices ecosystem, streaming protocols, client software designs to develop and test audio/video capture, playback and telemetry solutions.

You will work on high impact Android SDK’s and example applications which will help our customers integrate Dolby’s streaming solutions. The position demands a candidate capable of doing quality work against technical and schedule challenges, following strong software design and process principles, while collaborating with a global team.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Independently plan, design, develop and deliver android audio-video capture, playback and streaming applications.
• Lead and contribute to high quality android apps architecture definition.
• Lead and contribute towards software design, code and bug reviews.
• Serve as a senior member of project scrum team and follow industry best software development processes.
• Serve as a technical mentor to junior engineers.
• Establish software design requirements and performance goals of applications
• Anticipate and mitigate potential issues and risks in a project.
• Applies software engineering design patterns to develop well-structured application code
• Make informed technical decisions, considering all aspects of the problem.
• Efficiently handle ambiguity and multiple competing priorities at work
• Update job knowledge by studying trends and developments in rapidly changing cloud technologies landscape
• Effectively employ written and verbal communications to collaborate with business ownership, product management, engineering and user experience team members to achieve project goals

REQUIREMENTS: 

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable field.
• 6+ years' solid commercial experience developing native Android apps and SDK’s
• Professional experience using Android Media framework (Media Player, Media Recorder, MediaCodec, MediaExtractor)
• Experience in using JSON and REST-based APIs for android applications
• Experience with Android SDK, Java and Kotlin (desirable)
• Experience using Co-routines, MVP Design Pattern, Clean Architecture and Dependency Injection.
• Experienced and comfortable working within an Agile Environment.
• Ability to identify and mitigate risks in a large project.
• Ability to understand and contribute to android apps product needs and requirements
• High level written and verbal communication in both general and technology-specific applications

• Nice to have – experience building playback solutions for TV platforms like Fire TV, Roku and Tizen.
   

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