Why Join DAZN?
Joining DAZN in Hyderabad means being part of a cutting-edge sports streaming company in a vibrant tech hub. You’ll work alongside passionate, talented professionals on innovative projects that reach millions of fans worldwide. Hyderabad offers a dynamic work environment with a great balance of career growth and lifestyle. If you’re excited about shaping the future of live and on-demand sports entertainment, DAZN Hyderabad is the perfect place to make your mark and grow your career.
Role Summary
An engineering expert in the Player Engineering team specialising in Android TV playback within hybrid application environments. You will collaborate with subject matter experts and video specialists to design, build, and optimise playback solutions that integrate native Android media capabilities with HTML5-based user interfaces.
You will demonstrate technical excellence, strong frontend and systems engineering skills, and deep experience in Android. You will mentor colleagues, communicate effectively, and influence technical direction without direct authority.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement Android-native solutions to enhance network handling, ABR algorithms, and playback resiliency using ExoPlayer and related technologies.
- Optimise interaction between native video pipelines and web layers.
- Collaborate on innovative improvements to the Android TV video playback experience across a wide range of devices.
- Lead engineering delivery as the primary technical contact for new Android TV playback initiatives.
- Establish and evolve engineering standards for Android TV player architecture, performance, and observability.
- Motivate and sponsor junior engineers to improve processes and software excellence.
- Work cross-functionally with Streaming & Broadcasting teams on platform-wide playback challenges.
Required Qualifications:
- Should have minimum of 8+ Years of Professional software engineering experience with a strong delivery track record.
- Deep expertise in Android video playback, including ExoPlayer, MediaCodec, and Widevine DRM.
- Strong understanding of streaming protocols such as HLS and DASH, particularly in TV and embedded environments
- Experience building and maintaining Android SDKs or shared platform components across multiple apps or teams.
- Proven ability to manage multiple initiatives independently.
- Proficiency in Kotlin and/or Java, with strong knowledge of performance optimization, device fragmentation, and mobile system constraints.
At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.
As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop.
DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:
Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen.
Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact.
Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One.
At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.
If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.
Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.
We look forward to hearing from you.
