Job Summary The Media Player Engineering team mission is to design video streaming playback solutions in collaboration with encoding, packaging, and delivery teams to optimize the streaming technology stack for the best streaming experience possible on all platforms.

Our team is seeking someone who can fill the role of Sr Software Engineer to create a feature rich standard streaming media playback library on Apple devices. Our intention is to design and develop layered architecture for media playback which can span all the direct-to-consumer brands like. Your focus will be on collaborating with media playback teams on other platforms to ensure consistent software architecture which delivers a best in class streaming experience for your viewers while providing a foundation for media playback innovation.

This is a hands-on engineering position for the Apple Ecosystem in Objective-C/SWIFT. Based on your experience, you will work a cross-functional team of Product Managers, Designers, Engineers, Web Developers, and Content Creators to conceptualize and develop solutions that are shared across all Disney experiences. You may lead others to solve complex problems and provide oversight and direction to other software engineers. You are a person who enjoys working with other teams and technologies to understand their constraints. You enjoy the challenges presented by difficult problems and take pride in finding solutions which successfully thread the needle between design constraints, technical constraints, and the end experience of your users. You foster trust, approach problems with empathy and respect, and embrace creativity.

Responsibilities and Duties

● Design and implement solutions in collaboration with team-members for new features which integrate with various media services and back-ends.

● Collaborative API design with peer teams on the back-end as well as front-end teams which depend on our libraries.

● Research and development for media playback experiences, integration, and testing.

● Participate in project estimation and resource planning.

● Ability to collaborate in a small, productive development team as well as the larger engineering organization.

● Troubleshoot and resolve issues, problems, and errors encountered across our various platforms.

● Ability to collaborate in a small, productive development team as well as ability to work independently.

Required Experience and Skills

● years experience in software engineering.

● Able to demonstrate experience in the full lifecycle of software development. Early stage, maintenance, and end of life.

● Fluent in Swift or SwiftUI with past experience in Objective-C

● Knowledgeable in programming paradigms including Object Oriented and Reactive.

● Solid understanding of iOS/TVOS app development lifecycle.

● Experience in Object Oriented Programming.

● Knowledgeable about Design Patterns.

● Write efficient, reliable, and maintainable code whether implementing improvements, user-facing features, or fixing defects.

● Experience with unit test frameworks and continuous integration systems.

● Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Experience and Skills

● Experience with AVKit and its ecosystem.

● Experience with streaming technologies including HLS, MPEG-DASH, Transport Stream, and CMAF.

● Experience developing applications in all Apple platforms including iPhone, iPad, and TVOS.

Required Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or sim. field

Our benefits package includes: Comprehensive medical benefits Competitive pay (k) retirement plan much more!