Senior Developer| Android Development

Job Type: Full-time Employee
Location: Bangalore, India
Reporting to: Director of Engineering
Job Purpose :

Hands-on engineer to work on designing and developing Android software stack for applications running on Phones and/or creating software development kit (SDK) enabling Crunch Mobile technology as part of Android OS stack. A developer in this role is an integral part of a core team of talented software engineers committed to the development of fast and quality way of optimizing video contents and new ways of fast sharing video contents on the Android platform. This role involves a significant contribution to customizing Media Codec API which is part of the Android OS functions.


Requirements :
Good hands on experience in building high performance mobile applications on Android including some amount of experience in Android UI development.
Knowledge of video streaming, Media Codec frameworks on Android.
Solid programming experience in Java/C/C++. Well versed in latest Android SDK and NDK tools
Experience in following components is highly desirable
OS : Android 5.x, 6.x, 7.x and 8.x versions
Databases : NoSql, MySql
Android Media frameworks : MediaCodec API stack, OpenMax layers
Source control : Git
Media frameworks : FFmpeg, GStreamer
REST APIs
Strong understanding of, memory management, file I/O, network & socket programming, concurrency and multithreading on Android OS.

Specific Responsibilities :
Starting from Architecture design to implementing and maintaining video SDK on Android devices
Strong experience in tackling challenges revolving around video processing (Transcoding, Packaging), tuning high performance video application for latency on Android
Android Application development specifically for video sharing, optimizing user-content using hardware codec readily available on the devices on various Android platforms such as Qualcomm, Samsung Exynos and MediaTek
Proactive in creating a multi-paradigm engineering culture by working with a cross-functional team placed locally and globally
Maintain and extend an existing software components developed in the Android application space

What You Bring to the Table :
You must be well organized to prioritize tasks on hand to deliver your work on-time
Not afraid to take development challenges and eager to learn new things on Android.
5+ years experience in Application development for Android with a good understanding of Media Codec Stack and hardware codec access in Android.
Well versed in Android Native Code development using frameworks such as GStreamer, OpenMax
Experience with video compression on Android is highly desirable.
Experience building SDKs and frameworks a big plus
Experience in AWS S3 or other storage / CDN services is a bonus
Some understanding about video compression standards H.264, MPEG 2 and HEVC
Use of Agile and Jira tools
BS or equivalent in Computer Science or Engineering

Send CV to:

careers@crunchmediaworks.com