Description :

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 ofthe 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