Software Development Engineer II

Job Summary

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.

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 youre passionate about building immersive, intelligent, and performant user experiences that delight a billion users, join us in shaping the future of streaming.

Reporting To: Engineering Manager

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 contextualized 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 qualifications

• Strong coding skills (Golang)
• Experience building or working with architectures for server driven guided frameworks and Orchestrator platforms
• Strong understanding of database and storage fundamentals
• Performance tuning skills - optimizing for low p90 latency, high cache hit ratios, and multi-region delivery.
• Experience with AWS stack

Education and experience

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field with 2-4 years of experience in backend development.

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