Engineering Manager | Katowice | #1501

Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership: Oversee the design and development of the video player architecture across Android, iOS, and tvOS platforms.
• Team Management: Recruit, support, and lead a team of software engineers while cultivating a culture that values innovation and high performance.
• Project Execution: Manage feature rollout, resource planning, and estimation efforts to ensure timely and efficient delivery of development milestones.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, UX/UI, QA, and Streaming & Playback teams to elevate video quality and user satisfaction.
• Performance Tuning: Guarantee smooth, low-latency playback across all supported devices.
• Scalability & Reliability: Enhance the resilience of the video player by refining error handling, buffering mechanisms, and adaptive bitrate streaming strategies in coordination with the Playback team.
• Streaming Quality Monitoring: Track and analyze key streaming metrics such as startup time, rebuffering frequency, latency, and error rates to ensure optimal playback performance.
• Technology Exploration: Stay up-to-date with industry advancements and incorporate new playback technologies, codecs, and innovations.
• Quality Assurance: Define and implement standards for testing, performance monitoring, and debugging of playback-related issues.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure adherence to DRM requirements, content protection protocols, and security best practices across platforms.
• Stakeholder Communication: Clearly convey technical plans, updates, and progress to internal stakeholders.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of software development experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership or management role.
• Strong background in video streaming technologies (e.g., HLS, DASH, DRM, CDN, Adaptive Bitrate Streaming).
• Practical experience with media players such as ExoPlayer (Android), AVPlayer (iOS/tvOS), or custom-built solutions.
• Proficient in native app development using Kotlin (Android), Swift (iOS/tvOS), and media-related cross-platform frameworks.
• Solid understanding of media codecs and encoding standards.
• Skilled in debugging, profiling, and optimizing media playback applications.
• Familiarity with Agile workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based video streaming architectures.
• Strong analytical thinking, decision-making abilities, and communication skills.