Senior Android Software Engineer

Description

Remote

Our client has an opportunity for a Senior Android Software Engineer to join a Video Player team responsible for developing and maintaining Android video playback technologies, including ownership of a Video Player SDK. This engineer will improve streaming performance, playback reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability across consumer-facing digital products.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $75.00 to $95.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain an Android Video Player SDK.
• Build scalable architecture for video playback solutions.
• Implement and optimize streaming, buffering, DRM, offline playback, and performance-related features.
• Partner with Engineering, QA, and Operations teams to diagnose and resolve playback issues.
• Write clean, maintainable, high-performance code.
• Participate in code reviews and technical documentation.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams.
• Contribute to long-term platform and architectural planning.

Experience Requirements

• 3+ years of professional Android development experience.
• Strong Kotlin and/or Java expertise.
• Experience building production-grade Android applications and SDKs.
• Hands-on experience with Media3 and/or ExoPlayer.
• Experience with DASH and/or HLS streaming and Widevine DRM.
• Understanding of video playback architecture, adaptive bitrate streaming, buffering and performance optimization, device-specific playback behavior, and streaming protocols.
• Experience developing reusable SDKs or platform components and contributing to Android architecture and technical design.
• Experience with scalable streaming or media platform solutions.
• Ability to participate in architectural discussions, provide technical input, and demonstrate strong ownership.
• Background in OTT, streaming, media, sports, entertainment, or video-centric platforms is preferred.
• Experience troubleshooting playback issues across the video delivery pipeline and familiarity with playback analytics and QoE metrics.
• Nice to have: Roku development, iOS or cross-platform media experience, video advertising integrations (IMA SDK, VAST, VMAP), playback analytics and instrumentation, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and additional streaming platform experience.