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Engineering Head

Agency job
15 - 25 yrs
₹150L - ₹400L / yr (ESOP available)
Remote, Bengaluru (Bangalore), Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Mumbai, Hyderabad
Skills
Engineering Management
Engineering Manager
Engineering Head
Director of Engineering
VP of Engineering
Tech Lead
Technical Lead
Technical Head
Technical Manager
Software Engineering Manager
skill iconJava

VP Engineering

BANGALORE, KARNATAKA / 1. ENGINEERING – LEADERSHIP / FULL TIME

Disney Media & Entertainment Distribuon (DMED) brings together the Company’s best-in-class product, technology, and commercializaon teams together into one global organizaon. DMED is responsible for the P&L management and all distribuon, network and engineering operaons, sales, adversing, data, and certain key technology funcons worldwide for the Company’s content engines. DMED also manages operaons of the Company’s streaming services including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ and Disney+ Hotstar; and domesc broadcast and cable television networks.

Disney+ Hotstar is leading the way as the largest and smartest video plaorm in the country, reaching over 300 million users today. We have set a number of world records along the way - including for the highest concurrent viewership at 25.3 million during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. Disney+ Hotstar today is the one-stop desnaon for all your entertainment needs - from Live Sports, Indian and Internaonal Shows and Movies to all Disney content, including Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Naonal Geographic and Disney+ Originals. We’re looking for the brightest minds to build the future of TV with us.

About the Team

In this role, you will build large distributed systems to process and stream video at scale and drive all user aspects. As a VP for the team, you will develop plaorms and tools that deliver personalized recommendaons to 500+ million users. You will work on building storage soluons and microservices that serve recommendaons at a rate of few 100K requests per second. You

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will develop tools that serve recommendaons to our users in real-me. You will work closely with our product team to build new and compelling experiences for our customers!

The pace of our growth is incredible – if you want to tackle hard and interesng problems at scale, and create an impact within an entrepreneurial environment, join us!

Your Key Responsibilies

Responsible for the overall soware development life cycle.

Management and execuon against project plans and delivery commitments

Manage the day-to-day acvies of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment.

Management of departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, enhancing, and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team.

Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach.

Contribute substanally to innovaon and overcome technology limitaons to deliver on customer experience.

Report on the status of development, quality, operaons, and system performance to management.

What to Bring

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

14+ years of experience designing and developing complex, interacve consumer applicaons

Proficient with either Java or GoLang

7+ years of experience in soware development with strong experse in Java with micro web frameworks – like Play, Spring MVC, reacve programming

At least 5 years managing soware development teams including hands-on architectural or distributed systems experience

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Exposure in building RESTful APIs with monitoring(New Relic, statsd, graphite), fault tolerance and metrics

Experience with MySQL, NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB) Experience/Knowledge of Nelix OSS.
Experience in server-side services using ElascSearch, Kaa Experience with AWS stack.

Experience with CI/CD processes.

A strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-funconal, projects and bringing in and growing engineering talent

Excellent wrien and verbal communicaon skills with the ability to present complex technical informaon clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.

An entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong programming and product management skills

Our Values

- Audacity
- Self-Awareness - Ownership
- Bias for Acon
- Collaboraon
- Radical Candour - Inclusivity
- Mentorship

The Perks

- The glory. Almost too much responsibility. - No dress code. Unlimited leave.
- A fun-life balance.
- A cket on our rocket ship to the moon.

Who we are as an employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideraon for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, naonal origin, gender identy,

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disability, protected veteran status, or any other characterisc protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

Who we are as a company

We’re Disney+ Hotstar. The go-to desnaon for over 300 million users for everything from Live Sports, Indian and Internaonal Shows and Movies to all Disney content, including Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Naonal Geographic and Disney+ originals. Our mission is to revoluonize internet entertainment through smart personalizaon, and by building a global video plaorm that takes over the world wide web and the whole wide world.

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About Hotstar

Founded :
2015
Type :
Product
Size :
500-1000
Stage :
Profitable

About

Disney+ Hotstar is an online video streaming platform owned by Novi Digital Entertainment Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Star India Private Limited. Disney+ Hotstar currently offers over 100,000 hours of TV content and movies across 9 languages, and every major sport covered live. Highly evolved video streaming technology and a high attention to quality of experience across devices and platforms, make Disney+ Hotstar the most complete video destination for Over The Top (OTT) video consumers.
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