Description
Software Development Engineer II (Java)
Team: Back-end Engineering
Location: Bengaluru
Commitment: Full Time
Workplace Type: onsite
Job Summary: As an SDE-II, you’ll build backend systems that power the most critical moments in a user’s journey — from opening the app, to experiencing personalized, dynamic content, to experiencing. Your primary focus will be on scaling our platform infrastructure, architecting a state-of-the-art compositor engine, and evolving a multi-widget, server-driven layout system that constructs rich, adaptive pages across all devices. You’ll help ensure that hundreds of millions of users enjoy fast, seamless, and always-on experiences, no matter the time, traffic, or device.
Key Responsibilities
- Own scale-critical paths, ensuring the system can handle peak concurrency, multi-region delivery, and freshness guarantees.
- Build the infrastructure & capabilities that serves as the orchestration layer between downstream services and client apps — enabling faster experimentation, seamless rollouts, that works for every device & platform out there.
- Develop the Compositor Engine that fetches and ranks content blocks (widgets/cards), merges metadata, and serves highly contextualised page definitions to clients in milliseconds.
- Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Frontend teams on use cases like personalized feeds, layouts, and dynamic page composition.
- Improve latency, throughput, and observability across all surfaces where UI is driven from the server — including Homepage, Watch pages, and Detail views.
- Contribute to platform primitives that are used by every other team — including layout DSLs, contract validation, fallback mechanisms, and preview tooling.
- Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and on-call rotations, maintaining high service reliability even during peak traffic.
- Continuously evaluate relevant technologies and influence architecture and design discussions Guides and mentors juniors on functional attributes and domain knowledge
Skills and attributes for success:
- Strong coding skills (Java)
- Experience designing and building distributed systems at scale.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, AWS Mediaservices experience is a plus), messaging systems (e.g., Kafka)
- Proven ability to work autonomously in fast-paced environments, manage priorities, and deliver high-impact results
- Interest in advertising technologies and optimizing systems for user and business outcomes
Preferred education and experience:
- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field with 2-4 years of experience in backend development.
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.
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