Senior Software Engineer, Android

Company Description

Our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands, supported by media industry leaders, Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky. When you join our team, you’ll work across our dynamic portfolio including Peacock, NOW, Fandango, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn’t stop there. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive. 

Job Description

Welcome to Peacock, the dynamic new streaming service from NBCUniversal. Here you’ll find more than a job. You’ll find a fast-paced, high-performance team of incredible colleagues that want to be at the epicenter of technology, sports, news, tv, movies and more. We work hard to connect people to what they love, each other and the world around them by creating shared experiences through culture-defining entertainment.  

As a company, we embrace the power of difference. Our team is committed to creating an organization that champions diversity and inclusivity for all by curating content and a workforce that represents the world around us.  We continue to challenge ourselves and the industry by being customer-centric, data-driven creatures of innovation. At Peacock, we are determined to forge the next frontier of streaming through creativity, teamwork, and talent.  

Peacock is one of the newest entrants into the video streaming industry with an innovative model offering premium content at no cost to the user on the ad supported tier. We have already surpassed 34 million subscribers. Central to this success is an excellent user experience with fast loading times, high quality streams, and no playback failures.

The Core Video Android Team plays a crucial role in making this happen. We build a video playback SDK which abstracts away all the complexities of DRM protected playback and download, analytics, and dynamic ad insertion so that our clients can focus on creating great user experiences. To achieve this wide array of functionality, while maintaining an easy to use interface, we value good coding practices, solid design patterns, and follow principles for sustainable technology solutions in an agile environment.

We’re always looking for the best ways to solve problems and we are looking for teammates who equally share our passion for problem solving. Peacock is off to a flying start and we are looking for passionate, pragmatic software engineers, who value the opportunity for growth and impact, to join us.

Responsibilities

• Produce a reliable, performant, configurable, state-of-the-art SDK.
• Write clean, concise, readable code that follows common design patterns while adhering to best engineering practices.
• Strive to constantly improve quality of engineering through code reviews, tech talks, pair programming and other collaborative practices.
• Understand business needs and design quality software solutions that work well within the wider architecture.
• Push technical boundaries and propose new processes and technologies.
• Ensure quality and confidence in software by writing effective automated unit tests.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Value collaboration with teammates and stakeholders.
• Experience with the Android SDK and Android platform.
• Strong skills writing and testing code in Kotlin.
• Enthusiasm for building an Android library that handles all aspects of video playback.

Desired Characteristics

• Experience with video-on-demand and/or linear video playback on ExoPlayer.
• Experience with building and publishing Android libraries.
• Experience with Kotlin Coroutines and Flows or RX Java and/or Kotlin Multiplatform.

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $110,000 - $160,000

Additional Information

NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, ge