Senior Software Engineer - tvOS

Description

The company is a global media and entertainment business with three segments: studios, direct-to-consumer and TV media. Its portfolio spans film, TV, streaming, sports, news and kids brands.

You will join the Connected TV engineering team for the company's news channel, focusing on Apple TV and the wider Apple platform.

As a senior individual contributor, you will work largely on your own judgement, own difficult technical problems and help set the team's direction alongside Principal Engineers and Architects.

You will guide choices on tools, technologies, test automation and CI/CD so the team can ship high-quality Connected TV experiences to news viewers.

The team works with Product, Design and Delivery leaders to turn product plans into scalable technical solutions and keep operations running smoothly. You will be adaptable, inquisitive and keen to tackle new problems in a collaborative, fast-moving setting.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship customer-facing features across the tvOS apps, owning complex technical work to meet the team's engineering and quality standards.
• Join sprint planning with engineers, your manager and cross-functional partners, and help rank new features, architecture work and bug fixes.
• Lead major initiatives and shape the architecture of a high-performance streaming app.
• Deliver critical projects with engineers in several locations.
• Document your technical work clearly and help improve the team's engineering standards and practices.
• Mentor and coach less experienced engineers.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of programming experience in Swift or a similar language.
• Experience building consumer apps is a must.
• Strong UIKit knowledge is a must.
• SwiftUI is a plus.
• Knowledge of or experience with VOD is a plus, including video playback on iOS and tvOS apps.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience.
• You have built dynamic customer-facing apps that consume RESTful APIs, with hands-on work from front-end interfaces through to back-end systems.
• You have worked on large-scale application architecture, design, scalability, testability, implementation and performance tuning.
• You have practised modern DevOps or SRE, including CI/CD, performance monitoring and incident management.
• You have strong computer science fundamentals: object-oriented design, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis.
• You communicate well and negotiate effectively with internal and external partners who have different goals.
• You advise on design, coding and operational best practices, write technical documentation and recommend tools and developments that improve the app and developer experience.
• You mentor junior engineers, reviewing their designs, code quality and integration into the team.
• You take part in a follow-the-sun support rotation to monitor and debug critical production issues.
• You want to work on large cross-platform projects across 60+ countries and territories.
• You have experience with MVVM, MVP and SOLID principles.
• You have experience with Test Driven Development and its frameworks.

Conditions

Applicants with a disability who need adjustments or accommodations during recruitment can request them through the company's accessibility page.