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
(Work Experience: 12 min. month)
Location: Jaipur
Job Type: Office work
No. of Post: 2
Salary: 1.00 Lakh – 2.00 Lakh Per. Year
Key Skills:
Telecalling, Telesales ,Telemarketing, Sales, Outbound Calling
Experience: 3-6
Location: Chennai
Company Profile:
The company is a leading multinational corporation which is primarily known for manufacturing building materials and most prominently, glass. The company is based in France and is listed on Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. Started almost 350 years ago, It has established a worldwide market base. Apart from glass, it is also known for the production of ceramics, plastics, abrasives, gypsum plasterboards, packaging and countless other materials required in construction.
- Working knowledge of NodeJS, and JAVASCRIPT, is a must.
- Working knowledge of AWS cloud concepts is a must.
- Must be familiar with AWS serverless architecture.
- Must be familiar with data structure & algorithm concepts.
- Design, develop, and implement beautiful UI components to support business requirements.
- Follows approved life cycle methodologies, creates design documents, and performs program coding and testing.
- Resolves technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation.
- Own & Develop the REST APIs.
- Stay updated with new technologies and of changes in technologies that affect front-end web development.
Their unique features help tutors to create and manage live classes, manage attendance, fee collection, creating tests and quizzes as well as managing doubts of students. This is a platform that concentrates on learning from a teacher's perspective unlike other ed tech apps. Their app based on Software-As-A-Service business system will help to provide tutors with eCommerce access as well as Financial Aid to students.
- Setting and owning vision, strategy, and roadmap for the products and translating it to detailed requirements.
- Analyzing consumer needs, market trends, and competitor offering and build a winning formula for product success.
- Building PRDs with a business case, detailed use cases, and technical requirements.
- Prioritizing features based on business and consumer impact.
- Owning and growing activation, engagement, and retention of users.
- Working closely with engineering, sales, and marketing teams and meeting product timelines.
- Maintaining constant communication with all internal and external stakeholders and ensuring buy-in throughout the product lifecycle.
- Proven background in managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle.
- Obsessive about data-driven product decisions.
- Proven experience in optimizing funnels.
- Experienced in running product-led growth experiments.
- Solid understanding of web & mobile technologies.
- Must have worked in high growth startups for a minimum of 5 years.
- Computer science background preferred, but not mandatory.
- This opportunity is a remote working opportunity till the organisation decides to resume office keeping Covid situation in view. Tentatively, that is up to end of February.
- Designing and building the WordPress website front-end
- Creating the website architecture
- Designing and managing the website back-end including database and server integration
- Creating landing pages
- Generating WordPress themes and plugins
- Conducting website performance tests
- Troubleshooting content issues
- Monitoring the performance of the live website and improving it
- Work on SEO and Optimise continuously for website using Google Analytics
- Assist in Social Media Management and Email Marketing
- Stay updated with latest web technologies, SEO Tools and Website optimising tools and widgets
- Managing Social Media Management Tools
Full-Stack Developer
Are you a cricket enthusiast who also loves to build world-class
technology products?
CricHeroes is looking for an All Rounder Full Stack Developer, who is passionate about scaling up India's one of a kind niche B2C platform and the pulse of the nation - Cricket!
This might be a great opportunity for you if
- You are an action and result oriented highly driven person who aspires to be part of a team that is scaling up a successful B2C product.
- You are an analytical problem solver with strong Node.JS knowledge and a passion for teamwork and innovation
- You have hands-on experience in designing and developing applications and object-oriented analysis and design using common
- design patterns.
Who are we?
CricHeroes is the world's largest Cricket Network with more than 7 Million
users. It helps local cricketers showcase their talent, get recognition and
improve their game with data.
What are we looking for, in you?
- You are an ambitious problem solver who is constantly learning and
- updating yourself with the latest technology and an expert in
- technology development.
- In-depth knowledge of Node.js and used it for product development in a B2C fast-paced product company for 2-6 years
- Strong analytical skills and problem-solving aptitude
- Attention to details
- You have demonstrated a track record in delivering ambitious targets.
- You believe in teamwork.
- You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or Equivalent).
- Mandatory Technical background: Node.js, Javascript, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
- Preferable skills in AWS, Big Data, Analytics, Google Cloud.
What are we looking for, from you?
- You will write well-designed, testable, efficient code.
- You will ensure the code and designs are in compliance with specifications as developed.
- You will prepare and produce releases of the software platform and support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies.
- Work as part of a team developing applications and services using Agile development methods
- Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure
- Build customer-facing UI and back-end services
- Code, test and operate node.js based services
- Effectively use tools and ingenuity to identify and fix defects before they become a problem
- A good Stackoverflow profile is a big plus.
We are made in India by the passionate cricketers for the passionate cricketers of the world!
If this excites you and you want to be part of our team to help us win the
scores by building a one-of-a-kind app for all the cricketers around the
world, please apply here.
As Java Developer at BRIDGEi2i, you will participate in design, development and implementation of architectural deliverables of custom projects and products of BRIDGEi2i in Business Intelligence Applications. The role includes working closely with lead, testers, customers, project managers, designers.
You are expected to develop prototypes of the system design and work with lead, frontend developers, testers and project managers as appropriate throughout development cycle. You may work on multiple projects and products. You will contribute as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource; providing tech knowledge and capabilities as team member and individual contributor.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience in core Java/J2EE
- Strong knowledge of one of the web application framework such as Spring 4, Hibernate
- Good knowledge of relation database, SQL and ORM
- Possess good knowledge of object-oriented design and data structure
- Knowledge of web services (Restful) is preferred
- Knowledge of UI frameworks is an added advantage (AngularJS 2.0/4.0, Java script, HTML, CSS, JQuery, React JS)
- Curiosity and attention to detail
- Adaptable to changing technology and restrictions, design challenges, deadlines, and project requirements
Experience
- Should have 4+ Years of experience in Software Development.










