Media, Broadcast & Content
Senior IOS Engineer
Mid Level
Hyderabad, India
in office
Full time
Digital, Product & TechEngineering & Development
Job description
About the Role
The iOS/tvOS Developer will take a leading role in building and enhancing OTT video streaming applications. The role focuses on developing and optimising a custom video player for iOS and tvOS using AVPlayer and related media frameworks. The developer will collaborate closely with product, design, and backend engineering teams to deliver a seamless, high-performance user experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain OTT streaming applications for iOS and tvOS using Swift.
- Build and optimise 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 behaviours.
- 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.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- 5–7+ years of professional experience in Swift development.
- Strong 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).
- Experience with performance optimisation, memory profiling, and debugging tools (Instruments, Console, etc.).
- Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON parsing, and networking frameworks (URLSession, Combine, etc.).
- Experience implementing subtitles, DRM (FairPlay), and custom playback logic.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with SwiftUI.
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