Principal Software Engineer

About Us:

Quickplay fosters a transparent, fair, and collaborative environment. We enthusiastically tackle complex challenges in OTT video, focusing on massive scale and resilience. If you seek a high-performing, learning-oriented, and supportive culture, Quickplay is the right place. Our video distribution services team is looking for a Web/Device TQA Test Lead to help validate OTT streaming experiences across multiple platforms and devices.

About the Role:

• Developing high-quality, reusable and scalable code 
• Create a friendly, vibrant and cohesive development environment that fosters creativity while maintaining the discipline necessary to deliver quality features on time and on budget and leveraging your ability to create processes that enhance the team's efficiency. 
• Act as a technical leader in charge defining and guiding all technical aspects of the solution.
• Lead a team of 6+ developers
• Provide guidance on implementation and design best practices to other developers while mentoring junior developers throughout the development lifecycle.
• Implement product features within the team using best practices to meet product deliverables and guide the technical activities of the team to ensure that deadlines are met and the product roadmap is adhered to. 
• Collaborate with other software developers, program managers and product managers to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain UI applications. 
• Help the Product Management team with high-level estimation and clarification of technical implementation of features.
• Produce design artifacts such as class diagrams and sequence diagrams for browsers lib features or client solutions. Generate product documentation for releases.
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
• Create technical work breakdown structures and task dependencies.
• Participate in Agile sprint planning sessions and provide constructive feedback.
• Prepare software packages for deployment that adhere to the defined standard deployment policies.
• Be highly responsive to critical production issues providing timely and effective solutions.

About You—

Experience & Technical Requirements:

• You have a demonstrated passion and talent for technology.
• Your experience designing and implementing enterprise grade software is vast spanning 10+ years.
• You have at least 6 years of experience as an independent  Software Developer. 
• Part of your previous experience includes technical leadership. 
• Strong Knowledge of UI development and maintenance of websites, portals. 
• Your previous experience includes hands-on development with React, Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS
• Comfortable with leading and developing high performing Apps for Browser, Mobile Web and Smart TV platforms like LG, Samsung, Vizio, Comcast etc
• Skilled in designing and developing reusable frameworks/components, scalable, secured and responsive web apps.
• Experience in developing progressive web apps
• Proficiency in using SCM tools (SVN, git, maven, stash), best practices and continuous integration.
• You maintain an understanding of code obfuscation & encryption techniques. 
• Previously you have acted as a technical liaison for product development activities.
• You take pride in ensuring software is developed with high quality and that issues raised during the software development lifecycle are addressed in a timely manner.
• Agile development methodologies are familiar and comfortable for you to carry out and articulate or train on if necessary. 
• Some knowledge of AI Driven Development.
• Your prior experience includes debugging, performance profiling, SEO, Server Side Rendering and optimization.

Highly Favourable Skills:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, capable of leading design/architecture & training sessions.
• Creative thinking, in depth problem solving and unblocking are exhilarating to you.
• You are considered passionate about leading teams. 
• You have a high emotional intelligence and low ego while being a skilled active listener. 
• Instill an inclusive team culture that is both passionate and collaborative.

Nice to Have:

• Worked on OTT streaming application(s) 
• Experience with framework/library development
• An understanding of automated testing