Senior Software Engineer – Player (Remote)
Overview
Our client is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team responsible for building and maintaining the core playback infrastructure behind one of the world’s most popular streaming platforms.
Job Description
In this role, you’ll work on video playback experiences across multiple platforms, collaborating with global engineering, product, and UX teams to deliver high-quality streaming experiences to millions of users worldwide.
Responsibilities
- - Build, maintain, and optimize client-side video playback components
- - Develop new playback features and improve existing user experiences
- - Collaborate with frontend, mobile, and backend engineers on architecture and implementation decisions
- - Participate in code reviews and technical discussions
- - Contribute to engineering best practices and code quality initiatives
- - Work on React Native applications across mobile, TV, and web platforms
- - Help evolve native player foundations using technologies like ExoPlayer, AVFoundation, and FFmpeg
- - Take ownership of technical challenges and contribute to team-wide initiatives
Required Skills
- - 5+ years of software engineering experience
- - Strong experience with video playback infrastructure such as FFmpeg, ExoPlayer, MediaCodec, or similar technologies
- - Experience building user-facing applications on platforms such as Android, iOS, tvOS, macOS, or Roku
- - Familiarity with streaming protocols like HLS and DASH
- - Ability to quickly understand complex systems and existing codebases
- - Strong communication and collaboration skills in distributed environments
- - Ownership mindset and passion for building high-quality products
- - Nice to Have: Experience with React Native or React
- - Knowledge of Kotlin, Java, or C++
- - Previous experience working on streaming media applications
Benefits
- - Fully remote work environment
- - International distributed team
- - Collaboration hours generally between UTC 16:00–19:00
- - Periodic in-person offsites
About the company
G2i is a video-based hiring platform that helps companies hire world-class remote engineers across North America, Latin America, and Europe—often in days, not months. By replacing noisy resume screens with knockout questions, live technical interviews, and AI-powered hiring infrastructure, G2i dramatically increases signal and speeds up hiring for teams that need to move fast. Trusted by FAANG companies and high-growth startups alike, G2i offers access to a rigorously vetted network of 8,000+ engineers and builds custom talent pipelines for teams scaling quickly, all with a singular focus on quality, speed, and execution.
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