Hotstar is an Indian over-the-top streaming service owned by Novi Digital Entertainment, a subsidiary of Star India, which itself is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. At Hotstar, we have over 300 million users and capture close to a billion click stream messages daily. The engineering team at Hotstar is at the centre of the action and is responsible for creating unmatched user experience. Our engineers solve real life complex problems and create compelling experiences for our customers.
We are looking for a solid rockstar engineer who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. The pace of our growth is incredible, if you want to tackle hard and interesting problems at scale, and create an impact within an entrepreneurial environment, join us!
Your Key Responsibilities
You will build robust secure and scalable micro-services to power Hotstar applications
You will be responsible to implement RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway
You will ensure sub-second server response and will be responsible to implement relational, document, key, object or graph data-stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed
You will take ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure
You will continuously evaluate relevant technologies, influence and drive architecture and design discussions.
What To Bring
B.Tech/B.E. in Computer Science from a reputed college or related technical discipline with 4-8 years of experience in software development with strong expertise in Java
Experience with micro web frameworks ? like Play, Spring MVC, Node.js, reactive programming
Exposure in building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance and metrics (with something like Hystrix)
Experience with MySQL, NoSql (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB)
Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ
Experience in JEE, Spring, Hibernate
Hands-on with AJAX and Javascript
Experience with AWS stack
High adaptability in a dynamic start-up environment
To learn more about our team , check out the following articles :
https://blog.hotstar.com/when-hotstar-met-exoplayer-5b9ea500bd0
https://blog.hotstar.com/making-hotstar-zip-app-load-times-9d7ac7435257
https://blog.hotstar.com/daring-culture-hotstar-59a42b391b7
https://blog.hotstar.com/re-architecting-apps-for-scale-d4639b91e0c3
https://blog.hotstar.com/finding-duggal-disrupting-the-cricket-viewing-status-quo-98e6d523894d
https://blog.hotstar.com/our-journey-in-building-a-bff-layer-35acf7582301
https://blog.hotstar.com/video-encoding-recipes-for-live-cricket-21f875080932