Senior IOS Engineer
Department: 61-446 - Technology - Product Technology
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: India - Hyderabad
Reporting To: Aleksandra Kwiecien
Description
We are looking for a highly skilled iOS/tvOS Developer to join our team and take a leading role in building and enhancing our OTT video streaming applications. Your primary responsibility will be to develop and optimize a custom video player experience for both iOS and tvOS, leveraging AVPlayer and related media frameworks. You will collaborate closely with product, design, and backend engineering teams to deliver a seamless, high-performance user experience.
What you'll be doing:
• Design, develop, and maintain OTT streaming applications for iOS and tvOS using Swift.
• Build and optimize a custom AVPlayer-based video player, including playback controls, UI layers, gesture handling, and state management.
• Implement features such as Multiview, DRM, subtitles/closed captions, adaptive bitrate streaming (HLS), and background playback.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers to create intuitive and visually polished user interfaces.
• Integrate with backend APIs for content catalog, analytics, and player events.
• Ensure high performance, low memory usage, and smooth playback on both iOS and tvOS devices.
• Debug and resolve complex playback issues, buffering/latency problems, and platform-specific behaviors.
• Write clean, maintainable code following best architectural practices.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving overall engineering standards.
• Stay up to date with Apple platform updates, new APIs, and best practices.
What you'll bring:
• 5–7+ years of professional experience in Swift development.
• Robust expertise with AVPlayer, AVFoundation, HLS streaming, and media playback architecture.
• Proven experience building and releasing iOS and/or tvOS applications.
• Solid understanding of UI frameworks (UIKit; SwiftUI is a plus).
• Experience with p
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