Platform Engineer- Applications

Role: Platform Engineer - Applications

Department: Product & Technology

Location: Mohali

Working Model: Office-based (5 days in office)

Working Days: 6 Days

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience: 3-5 Years

About the Role

DrishtiNova is building its Android TV and Fire TV OTT applications in-house as part of the Saganova platform. This role will be responsible for designing and developing high-quality TV experiences, working closely with Backend Engineering, Product, QA and Technical Program Management to deliver a scalable streaming platform.

Role Summary

You will own the development of Android TV and Fire TV applications, ensuring high performance, smooth media playback and an intuitive living-room experience. The role involves building new features, integrating backend APIs, implementing DRM-protected playback and optimising performance across a range of TV devices.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop Android TV and Fire TV applications using Kotlin.
• Implement media playback using Media3 / ExoPlayer.
• Integrate HLS, DASH and DRM-protected streaming.
• Develop TV-specific UI with proper D-Pad navigation and focus management.
• Integrate backend REST APIs.
• Implement authentication and device activation workflows.
• Optimise application performance and memory usage.
• Debug playback, networking and device-specific issues.
• Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews.
• Collaborate with QA during feature validation.
• Maintain technical documentation.
• Follow Git workflows and engineering standards.

Required Skills

• Kotlin
• Android SDK
• Android TV development
• Fire TV development
• Jetpack Compose
• AndroidX
• Media3
• ExoPlayer
• HLS
• MPEG-DASH
• Widevine DRM
• OTT/video streaming
• Retrofit
• OkHttp
• Coroutines
• MVVM
• Clean Architecture
• Git
• Android Studio
• ADB debugging
• REST APIs

Preferred Skills

• Experience building commercial OTT applications
• Experience with Firebase
• Crashlytics
• Performance profiling
• AWS familiarity
• CI/CD pipelines
• Play Store deployment
• Fire TV certification
• Agile/Scrum

Key Responsibilities

• Develop Node.js backend services.
• Build and maintain REST APIs.
• Extend existing OTT APIs.
• Implement authentication and authorization.
• Build device registration and activation services.
• Work with MongoDB.
• Integrate AWS services.
• Debug production issues.
• Improve API performance.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Maintain technical documentation.
• Work with frontend engineers during integration.

Required Skills

• Node.js
• Express.js
• REST APIs
• JWT Authentication
• OAuth concepts
• MongoDB
• AWS fundamentals
• API debugging
• Git
• Postman
• Performance optimisation
• Async programming

Preferred Skills

• OTT/video platforms
• Media workflows
• CDN integration
• DRM concepts
• Docker
• CI/CD
• Logging & monitoring
• Agile/Scrum

Pay: ₹30,000.00 - ₹50,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person