MX Player Career

MX Player is the world’s best video player with an install base of 500+ million worldwide and 350+ million in India. We are installed on every second smartphone in India.

We cater to a wide range of entertainment categories including video streaming, music streaming, games and short videos via our MX Player and MX Takatak apps which are our flagship products.

Both MX Player and MX Takatak iOS apps are frequently featured amongst the top 5 apps in the Entertainment category on the Indian App Store. These are built by a small team of engineers based in Mumbai.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Need to have 5+ years of experience. 

Should be Hands-on coding.

A senior software developer who can design and code large scale distributed systems. 

Need to have experience working with backend microservices at scale. 

Should be comfortable working on Nosql/Mysql databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, elastic search. etc, and tune the performance. 

Comfortable working in Java 8 with Golang.

 

 

Skills: 

Must have: 

Software Developer with at least 5 years of experience in backend development with Java 8.

API integration, Database designing.

Understanding of complete lifecycle development, continuous integration & testing.

 

Good to have:

Good understanding of the Kotlin language.

Good understanding of RxJava.

Past experience of working in large scale multi-module apps.

About

MX Player is an entertainment super app that caters to over 200 million Monthly Active users in India, integrating all forms of entertainment on one platform – including video playback, streaming video, music and gaming. Defining “everytainment” for viewers with entertainment that suits every mood, it currently operates on an ad supported model and hosts a wide library of over 2,00,000 hrs of premium content across 10 languages, including a critically acclaimed slate of MX Original/ Exclusives, movies, web series, TV shows, news and audio music. The app is available across Android, iOS, Web, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Android TV and OnePlus TV amongst others. 

Having launched its gaming feature in February 2020, Games on MX Player has grown exponentially with 25m Monthly Active Gaming Users and this tournament style slew of hyper casual mobile games is now available across its Android and iOS apps.

From the stable of Times Internet (the digital venture of Times of India, India's largest media and entertainment group), MX Player has now spread its footprints across 12 markets including UAE, US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan, Srilanka, Maldives, and Bhutan.  MX has further expanded its business with the launch of its short format video app MX TakaTak - a home-grown platform that offers a wide variety of short form content and creation tools across genres that is home to the largest number of 15Mn+ digital influencers as well as MX ShareKaro that is an easy-to-use file sharing app with rapid transfer speed.

MX TakaTak – a short format video app by MX Player is a world-class, home-grown platform that offers a wide variety of short form content and creation tools like a well organized and exhaustive background music library, advanced beautification tools, new & innovative effects/filters, sound mixing, and voice over recording amongst others. This app aims to nurture and enable digital enthusiasts to build their own success stories as influencers by enjoying and creating imaginative short format videos across genres such as Dialogue Dubbing, Comedy, Gaming, DIY, Food, Sports, Memes and many more. Generating 2.5 Billion+ videos views daily and home to 15Mn+ digital influencers, this free to use platform caters to 30Mn Daily Active Users (DAU) and 100 Mn Monthly Active Users.

 

 Key Responsibilities and Accountability

 

Leadership & Communication:

• Communicating the key findings to product stakeholders and inculcating best practices to analytics and product team

• Marketing Operations:
  • Applying expertise in data to see beyond the numbers and understand how users interact with core products and advertising channels
  • Designing experiments and evaluating them through relevant KPIs
  • Conducting multivariate testing across marketing channels to assess the impact of advertising spends on the key business metrics
  • Building dashboards to monitor KPIs of different spend channels and content promotion
  • Deeper integration of marketing analytics tools like Appsflyer, GA, etc in coordination with the product dev team, Facebook analytics
  • Develop attribution models to see the value add of all the marketing channels

 

• Exploratory Analysis:
  • Understanding user behavior and performing root-cause analysis of changes in data trends to identify corrections or propose desirable enhancements in product & across different verticals
  • Defining key metrics of marketing performance and identifying ways to improve them

 

Skills and competencies

• Good knowledge of BigQuery, SQL, Python/R, MS excel and Data Infrastructure
• Experience with web analytics tools, like GA, Omniture, Mixpanel, Localytics,Appsflyer,Clevertap

 

Required Qualification

• 2+ years experience in analytics role preferably with a consumer Internet product
• Graduation in Engineering/Maths/Science (Only from Tear 1 OR Tear 2 Institute)

 

Perks

• Ownership of driving data-driven decisions in marketing
• Lots of room for creativity
• Great working environment
• Interesting, smart, fun, and kind co-workers

MX Player is the world’s best video player with an install base of 500+ million worldwide and 350+ million in India. We are installed on every second smartphone in India.

We cater to a wide range of entertainment categories including video streaming, music streaming, games and short videos via our MX Player and MX Takatak apps which are our flagship products.

Both MX Player and MX Takatak iOS apps are frequently featured amongst the top 5 apps in the Entertainment category on the Indian App Store. These are built by a small team of engineers based in Mumbai.

Position : Product Analyst

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

• Driving the collection of new data that would help build the next generation of algorithms (E.g. audience segmentation, contextual targeting)
• Understanding user behavior and performing root-cause analysis of changes in data trends to identify corrections or propose desirable enhancements in product & across different verticals
• Excellent problem solving skills and the ability to make sound judgments based on trade-offs for different solutions to complex problem constraints
• Defining and monitoring KPIs for product/content/business performance and identifying ways to improve them
• Should be a strong advocate of data driven approach and drive analytics decisions by doing user testing, data analysis, and A/B testing
• Help in defining the analytics roadmap for the product
• Prior knowledge and experience in ad tech industry or other advertising platforms will be preferred

 

 

Tools/ Skillset:

• Knowledge of Google DFP (prefered)
• SQL
• R/Python (preferred)
• Any BI Tool such as tableau, sisense (preferred)
• Go getter attitude
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced dynamic environment
• Self - Starter

About us:

MX Player is the worlds best video player and the worlds largest video platform, with an install base of 500+ million worldwide and 350+ million in India. It has consistently ranked amongst the top 10 Android apps since 2012.

MX Player reaches its vast user base via an ever increasing list of supported platforms including native Android and iOS apps, mobile and desktop web applications and other portable devices.

From the stable of Times Internet (the digital venture of Times of India, India's largest media and entertainment group), MX Player has now spread its footprints across 12 markets including UAE, US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan, Srilanka, Maldives, and Bhutan. MX has further expanded its business with the launch of its short format video app MX TakaTak - a home-grown platform that offers a wide variety of short form content and creation tools across genres that is home to the largest number of 1Mn+ digital influencers as well as MX ShareKaro that is an easy-to-use file sharing app with rapid transfer speed.

Position: Senior Frontend Developer.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
Preact + React JS, Redux-based SSR (Server Side Rendered), SPA (Single Page Application) architecture.
Experience in to Desktop Web and Mobile Web.
Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps (AWS) and Agile principles.
Translating designs and wireframes into highly maintainable code.
Should be capable of writing reusable, light-weight, highly optimized code.
Mentoring and guiding the team members.

Technical Skills:

Hands-on experience in React 15.x+, Preact, HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, Nodejs and JavaScript.
4+ years of experience in cross-browser compatible responsive web application development using React JS.
Good knowledge about Reactive programming using RxJS and experience in working with state management using Redux, Flux and Webpack.
Knowledge and use of Restful web services, Gulp / Grunt.
Experience working with debugging/testing tools like Firebug Lite, Chrome or Safari web inspectors.
Understanding of layout aesthetics and knowledge of SEO principles.
Experience in JavaScript MV-VM/MVC frameworks.
Version Control – GIT.
Servers / Application frameworks - Apache / Nginx / ExpressJS.

ABOUT US:
MX Player is the world’s best video player and the world’s largest vid eo platform, with an install base of 500+ million worldwide and 350+ million in India. It has consistently ranked amongst the top 10 Android apps since 2012.

MX Player reaches its vast user base via an ever increasing list of supported platforms including native Android and iOS apps, mobile and desktop web applications and other portable devices.

Roles and Responsibilities:
● Designs and codes features for the Android application as per the specifications provided by Product and Design teams.
● Write unit tests for all features.
● Ships feature fast moving agile sprints.
● Works closely with API, Product Design and Product Management teams to brainstorm and chalk out details of features.

Skills Must have:
● Software Developer with at least 4 years of experience in building apps for the Android
platform.
● Good understanding of Java.
● Good understanding of Android application architecture and design.
● Good understanding of memory management, network interaction, concurrency and multi-threading in Android.
● Understanding of complete application development, continuous integration & testing and app distribution infrastructure.

Good to have:
● Good understanding of the Kotlin language.
● Good understanding of RxJava.
● Past experience of working in large scale multi-module apps.
● Past experience of building video streaming apps.
● Past experience of working with third party libraries and dependency management on Android.

ABOUT US:
MX Player is the world’s best video player with an install base of 500+ million worldwide and 350+ million in India. We are installed on every second smartphone in India. We cater to a wide range of entertainment categories including video streaming, music streaming, games and short videos via our MX Player and MX Takatak apps which are our flagship products.

Both MX Player and MX Takatak iOS apps are frequently featured amongst the top 5 apps in the Entertainment category on the India Appstore. These are built by a small team of engineers based in Mumbai. You might be a good addition to the team if you are a
seasoned iOS developer with great hands-on coding skills and a high degree of ownership and autonomy.

Key Responsibilities:
• Translate business requirements into specifications and implement the required reports and dashboards, created from potentially multiple data sources.

Skills and Qualifications:
• Web/Data Analytics Tools: Google Analytics, Power-BI or Tableau or Sisense
• SQL experience is must.
• Bachelor degree in IT or related field
• 2-4 years of MIS experience in Data Entry/Data Updation/MIS profile.
• Should be able to work in a fast moving and competitive environment.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Intermediate MS Excel is a must.

About Us:
MX Player is the world’s No.1 entertainment app offering viewers high quality, digital first content. With over 75 million Daily Active Users (DAUs) – it is the largest entertainment platform in the country, present on 1 out of every 2 smartphones. Defining “everytainment” for viewers with entertainment that suits every mood, it currently operates on an ad supported model and is a free to use app for premium content.

MX Player provides users a wide online streaming library of over 100,000 hours of licensed content, across 10 languages and an exciting slate of MX Original Series with genres ranging across drama, comedy, reality and romance. From the stable of Times Internet (the digital venture of Times of India, India's largest media and entertainment group), MX Player
has consistently ranked amongst the top 10 Android apps since 2012 and is available across Android, iOS, Web, Amazon Fire TV Stick and Android TV.

MX Player offers offline video viewing capabilities and will soon begin to let users stream exclusive content as an OTT platform. MX Player is the largest local video platform in the world with an installed base of 500+ million worldwide, with 350+ million in India and has consistently ranked amongst the top 10 Android apps since 2012.

Key Responsibilities and Accountability:
• Graphic Designing for MX Player including premium artworks, mailers, mockups, banners, posters, etc.
• Spokesperson for all the other interns; responsible for their task assignments, coaching/guidance, accountability and also for sending daily/weekly summary to his/her reporting manager.
• End-to-end Quality Check of the work done by other interns before delivering it to the respective clients.
• Learning latest/upcoming trends in Graphic Designing through R&D and educating others with the same.
• Proactively participate in related projects alongside his/her peers/seniors for Motion Graphics.
• Coordinating with Content Ops/Programming, Marketing, HR or Sales for smooth work processes and timely deliveries.
• Punctuality
• Accountable & Responsible for projects assigned

Skills & Competencies:
• Photoshop
• Illustrator

Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design / industrial design / interior design / equivalent experience
• 4-7 years of experience in graphic design

About MX Player:

MX Player is the world’s #1 entertainment app offering viewers high-quality, digital-first content. With an install base of more than 2 billion – it is the largest entertainment platform in the world, present on 1 out of every 2 smartphones in the world. MX Player provides over 100,000 hours of premium video, best-in-class hyper-casual games, music streaming, and more - across 10 Indian languages along with acclaimed & award-winning MX Original Series.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Communicating the key findings to the stakeholders and inculcating the growth inferences and the content strategies
2. Applying expertise in data to see beyond the numbers and understand how users interact with core product and content exploitation in OTT/short videos
3. Designing experiments and evaluating them through relevant KPIs
4. Building dashboards to monitor KPIs of different verticals (content, marketing, sales, revenue, management, etc)
5. Understanding user behavior and performing root-cause analysis of changes in data trends to identify corrections or propose desirable enhancements in product & across different verticals
6. Defining key metrics of content strategy and growth and identifying ways to improve them

Skills and competencies:
● Good knowledge of BigQuery, SQL, Python/R, MS excel and Data Infrastructure
● Experience with web analytics tools, like GA, Omniture, Mixpanel, Localytics, Appsflyer, Clevertap

Required Qualification
● 5-8+ years experience in analytics role preferably with a Consumer Internet product
● Graduation in Engineering/Maths/Science 
● Strong verbal and written communication skills, including an ability to effectively communicate
● Ability to lead teams - minimum of 2-3 years of experience in a team management
● Creative and strategic thinker, innovative problem-solving skills, highly organized, with the ability to handle multiple simultaneous tasks, prioritize and meet tight deadlines
● Self-starter, get-stuff-done attitude - willing to get into the weeds

MX Player is the world’s best video player with an install base of 500+ million worldwide and 350+ million in India. We are installed on every second smartphone in India.

We cater to a wide range of entertainment categories including video streaming, music streaming, games and short videos via our MX Player and MX Takatak apps which are our flagship products.

Both MX Player and MX Takatak iOS apps are frequently featured amongst the top 5 apps in the Entertainment category on the Indian App Store. These are built by a small team of engineers based in Mumbai.

 

Roles and responsibility for the same will be: 

 

1. Year of experience – 5+ years
2. Ability to synthesize complex data into actionable goals.
3. Interpersonal skills to work collaboratively with various stakeholders with competing interests.
4. Find analytical trends and logics to better promote content on the Platform
5. Evaluate content and carry out qualitative research on Competition Analysis, Viewership trends for OTT.
6. Building hypothesis and testing it out through relevant KPIs.
7. Communicate the key findings to programming stakeholders and inculcating best practices to programming team.

 

Skills & Competencies:

 

1. Good knowledge of BigQuery, SQL, Python/R, MS Excel and Data Infrastructure.
2. Ability to work as a team player in a target driven work environment meeting deadline.
3. Excellent Time Management Skills.
4. Strong Communication Skills.
5. Proficient in MS Office Suite

MX Player is the world’s best video player with an install base of 500+ million worldwide and 350+ million in India. We are installed on every second smartphone in India.

We cater to a wide range of entertainment categories including video streaming, music streaming, games and short videos via our MX Player and MX Takatak apps which are our flagship products.

Both MX Player and MX Takatak iOS apps are frequently featured amongst the top 5 apps in the Entertainment category on the Indian App Store. These are built by a small team of engineers based in Mumbai.


As DevOps Engineer, you will build and manage a secure cloud platform supporting multiple platforms, while ensuring seamless development, build, and deployment capabilities. You will be responsible for managing infrastructure, databases, and applications in different env. You will work closely with developers and QA to ensure systems we build are robust, can seamlessly scale, handle rapid growth, and limit exposure to single points of failure and security vulnerabilities.


Technical Skills:

Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
Handling of production infrastructure
Experience with automation/configuration management using either Ansible, salt, or an equivalent
Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with AWS is required).