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
21/05/2021 Disney+ Hotstar - VP Engineering
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
21/05/2021 Disney+ Hotstar - VP Engineering
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,
🚀
21/05/2021 Disney+ Hotstar - VP Engineering
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.

About Hotstar
About
Connect with the team
Similar jobs
Experience Required: 5-9 Years
No. of vacancies: 2
Job Type: Full Time
Vacancy Role: WFO
Job Category: Development
Job Description
As a Senior PHP Developer at ChicMic Studios, you will leverage your expertise in PHP and the Laravel framework to design, develop, and maintain sophisticated web applications. You will play a crucial role in shaping the technical direction of projects, ensuring best practices, and driving innovation. Your leadership and problem-solving skills will be essential in collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional solutions.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Design, Develop, Implement, Test, Document and Maintain high quality Web Application Software.
- Understanding and implementing of project management practices.
- MVC compliant Development (Laravel/YII / CodeIgniter / Zend Framework) in at least any one of these frameworks.
- Experience with CMS framework i.e. Wordpress.
- Optimization of PHP Code and database queries and functions through Code Review and Project Review Sessions.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and make constructive suggestions for change.
- Improve the technical competence of the team through training & development of existing and new team members.
- Provide accurate effort estimates for deliverable and be committed to the deadlines through follow-up of tasks with team members.
- Research and actively learn about new technologies and introduce them into the infrastructure.
Qualifications
- Minimum experience 5 years in laravel and Codeigniter.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and love technical challenges.
- Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- Ability to manage priorities and work in a fast pace environment.
- Strong database skills, proven experience with MySQL 5 having knowledge of indexes, full text searches, usage of Regular Expressions in queries and more.
- Excellent knowledge of Applications Architecture and how to work with Frameworks with MVC architecture.
- Excellent Knowledge of HTML 5, CSS 3, Javascript, jQuery/Sencha etc.
- Key Skills Required : Wordpress, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Zend, Mysql, Jquery, API (Restful Service).
· Write effective and scalable code in Ruby
· Build back-end components for web applications
· Test applications for performance, responsiveness, and security
· Review and debug junior developers’ code
· Integrate data storage and data processing solutions
· Build, install, and share gems and plugins
· Create automated test scripts
· Improve and maintain applications after deployment
· Coordinate with team members who work on different layers of infrastructure
Roles and Responsibilities:
Engage with potential clients via phone calls and WhatsApp to schedule meetings with our Principal Architect.
Understand client requirements related to construction, real estate, or interiors and relay them effectively to the Principal Architect.
Maintain and update client interactions, leads, and meeting schedules in the CRM system.
Follow up with leads to ensure timely responses and confirmed meeting attendance.
Provide basic information about our services, processes, and timelines to prospective clients.
Collaborate with the Principal Architect to refine engagement strategies and enhance lead conversion.
Skills Required:
Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage and build trust over calls and WhatsApp.
Experience in the construction, real estate, or interior design industry is mandatory.
Proficiency in CRM tools for managing leads and tracking client interactions.
Goal-oriented with a focus on delivering high-quality leads and scheduling productive meetings.
Prior experience in inside sales or client engagement is preferred.
Note: The role is client-focused, ensuring seamless communication and effective scheduling with our Principal Architect
Roles and Responsibilities
1. Ability to work on diverse backend stack such as Node JS, Express JS
2. Ability to work on diverse frontend stack such as Meteor JS, React JS, HTML5, CSS3
3. Ability to deliver quick POC’s using cutting edge technologies.
4. Preparing reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software.
5. Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards
6. Developing, refining, and tuning integrations between applications. Analyzing and resolving technical and application problems.
7. Ability to debug the application.
8. Should have complete knowledge of developing RESTful Services.
9. Should be able to also work in agile development methodology.
10. Work with designated JavaScript framework to design, develop, and debug web applications
11. Work with the team to manage, optimize, and customize multiple web applications
12. Manage end to end module lifecycle management of the product
13. Push and pull codes via Git repository
Competency Requirements
- Experience in NodeJS and development using MeteroJS
- Experience in front end frameworks - Meteor JS
- Experience in client/server application development
- Knowledge of agile development methodologies
- Knowledge of unit testing theory
- Knowledge of AWS cloud
- Knowledge of other frontend frameworks like ReactJS, AngularJS will be an advantage
· Strong knowledge of .NET web framework.
· Proficient in {C# and/or VB.NET}, with a good knowledge of their ecosystems
· Strong understanding of object - oriented programming
· Skill for writing reusable libraries
· Familiar with various design and architectural patterns
· Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server.
· Experience with web application frameworks
· Familiarity with Windows Presentation Framework
· A knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code
· Understanding of fundamental design principles for building a scalable application
· Experience creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
· Basic understanding of Common Language Runtime (CLR), its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds
· Proficient understanding of code versioning tools {such as Git, SVN}
Responsibilities:
· Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
· Integrate data storage solutions.
· Engage in SQL Version upgrade and Windows upgrade activities
· Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
· Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to mitigate and address these issues
· Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
Job Description
As an International Sales Executive in our company, your primary responsibility is to drive sales and revenue generation for the company by engaging with potential customers from the US. You will be responsible for handling inbound sales calls, building relationships, and booking flight tickets.
Job Requirements
Proven 1-year experience in sales, preferably in an international outbound calling/ Sales environment.
Benefits
- Paid Training
- IATA Certificate
- Cab Facility
- Incentives
The brand is associated with some of the major icons across categories and tie-ups with industries covering fashion, sports, and music, of course. The founders are Marketing grads, with vast experience in the consumer lifestyle products and other major brands. With their vigorous efforts toward quality and marketing, they have been able to strike a chord with major E-commerce brands and even consumers.
What you will do:
- Coordinating all communication and discussions with Technology partners, Semiconductor partner, Vendors, and other 3rd party companies
- Coordinating technology evaluation by various teams Software, Hardware, Quality Assurance, Product Managers and Management team
- Performing market research, exploring ideas by working closely with various departments, and coming up with new innovative features and architectures
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- BE, BTech, ME, MTech– E&C/CS
- Experience of 6-8 years
- Potential to grasp new technologies
- Experience in Consumer-lifestyle companies
- Good understanding of any of the product categories including Hearables (TWS, Neckbank, Headphones), Wearable (Band, Smartwatches), Alexa Speakers/Voice Assistant, Soundbars, and any other consumer electronics products
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong sense of duty and initiative
Responsibilities:
- Participate and lead Business Requirements gathering, documentation of BRD and overall Solution design.
- Implementation of designed system in NetSuite and support to project team.
- Ensure the best practices implementation based on Industry standard.
- Need to be involved on Reviews, check feasibility of solution and functional fitment as per NetSuite and align customer expectations and NetSuite capabilities to ensure smooth project delivery.
- Prepare test cases of modules implemented, validate the deliverables before Client testing and UAT.
- Follow up with Client and Support for issue resolution.
- Documenting the resolution of issues and sharing with the internal team on ongoing basis.
- Interact with the key end users and business owners to map applications to standard business processes and conduct gap analysis
- Suggest process improvements based on the application capability and industry best practices
- Support all formal documentation of implementation and provide relevant functional inputs to technical team
- Contribute to the training and development of key NetSuite team.
- Support in Pre Sales, demos and estimates as an when required.
- Ensure weekly Client reporting and support to Project Management team.
Qualifications/Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree preferably in Engineering, MCA, MSC, or Accounting.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in NetSuite with 8 to 10 years of end-to-end in NetSuite Implementation.
- Good knowledge of all NetSuite Modules with strong understanding of functional processes
- NetSuite Foundation / ERP Consultant certification preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in translating customer business requirements into workable business solutions, preferably on SaaS.











