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 experienced software engineer in the Player Engineering team specialising in Android TV video playback. You will collaborate with subject matter experts and video specialists to design, build, and optimize playback experiences across Android TV devices using a hybrid platform combining native Android (ExoPlayer) and HTML5 WebView-based UI technologies.
You will contribute high-quality engineering solutions, demonstrate strong frontend and systems engineering capabilities, and apply deep knowledge of Android TV and streaming technologies. You will work effectively within a cross-functional team, communicate clearly, and support the evolution of playback architecture and user experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement Android-native solutions to enhance network handling, ABR algorithms, and playback resiliency using ExoPlayer and related technologies.
- Optimise playback performance, startup time, buffering behaviour, and video quality across a wide range of Android TV devices
- Collaborate with frontend and platform teams to ensure seamless interaction between WebView UI and native playback components.
- Contribute to the evolution of Android TV player architecture, including observability, diagnostics, and performance monitoring.
- Participate in debugging and resolving complex playback issues across diverse device ecosystems and partner implementations.
Required Qualifications:
- Should have minimum of 6+ Years of Professional software engineering experience with a strong delivery track record in consumer-facing applications
- Strong expertise in Android development, particularly for Android TV platforms
- Hands-on experience with ExoPlayer, MediaCodec, and DRM technologies such as Widevine
- Experience working with hybrid applications combining native Android components and HTML5/WebView-based UIs
- Proficiency in Kotlin and/or Java, with a focus on performance optimisation and platform constraints
- Familiarity with integrating JavaScript interfaces or bridging mechanisms between WebView and native.
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.
