Senior Software Engineer - Android Developer

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer - Android Developer ( Adtech Team), Bangalore
About Warner Bros. Discovery:
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.
For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.
Meet Our Team:
The Ad Tech group works on building state-of-the-art Ad technology platforms and services that power the Discovery + and other digital services offered by Warner Bros. Discovery globally.

Roles & Responsibilities:
• Build product features in close collaboration with product and business
mandates.
• Play a key role in shaping the feature roadmap for Android devices across the ecosystem
Opportunity to participate in internal hackathons that foster innovation, collaboration, and creative problem-solving.
• Advocate best practices for App development and also lay down best
coding practices
• Work with internal and external stakeholders in developing and
designing the app.
• Initiate, lead and execute work on proof of concepts and help identify
the ways to scale/integrate them in the app
• Own all aspects of the product development from concept, and drive it
through development, testing, acceptance, adoption and iterative
changes
• Carry out engineering development with a strong focus on error
handling, performance monitoring and metrics across the app. Some of
the key metrics are Performance Uptime, Re-Buffering rates, Time
Spent on the app, App Store Rating among other measures of product
stability and excellence.
What to Bring:
• 5 - 8 years of experience in developing native Android applications in Kotlin
& experience working with distributed engineering teams is a must.
• Hands-on experience in building native mobile applications and mobility
solutions
• Sound understanding of Android Architecture, Framework, Android SDK,
Core Java, Android Studio IDE, Android Debugger, Android Open Source
• Keen eye towards optimising the application for performance
improvements, like enhanced memory management
• Good understanding of the basic components of Android: Activity, Services,
Intent, Broadcast Receiver, Content Provider, UI components & controls.
• Familiar with Web Service Integration (REST, JSON) and REST concepts
• Experience in DevOps/SRE practices such as CI/CD, performance monitoring
& incident management
• Strong computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithm
design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Self-confident self-starter – proactive in setting and meeting goals, with
limited supervision
• Good verbal & written communication skills
What We Offer:
• A Great Place to work
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities

Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.
If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-j6z721-216-73-216-0-42 in your application.