About this role
We are looking for a highly skilled iOS/tvOS Developer to join our team and take a leading role in building and enhancing our OTT video streaming applications. Your primary responsibility will be to develop and optimize a custom video player experience for both iOS and tvOS, leveraging AVPlayer and related media frameworks. You will collaborate closely with product, design, and backend engineering teams to deliver a seamless, high-performance user experience.
What you'll be doing:
- Design, develop, and maintain OTT streaming applications for iOS and tvOS using Swift.
- Build and optimize a custom AVPlayer-based video player, including playback controls, UI layers, gesture handling, and state management.
- Implement features such as Multiview, DRM, subtitles/closed captions, adaptive bitrate streaming (HLS), and background playback.
- Collaborate with UI/UX designers to create intuitive and visually polished user interfaces.
- Integrate with backend APIs for content catalog, analytics, and player events.
- Ensure high performance, low memory usage, and smooth playback on both iOS and tvOS devices.
- Debug and resolve complex playback issues, buffering/latency problems, and platform-specific behaviors.
- Write clean, maintainable code following best architectural practices.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving overall engineering standards.
- Stay up to date with Apple platform updates, new APIs, and best practices.
What you'll bring:
- 5–7+ years of professional experience in Swift development.
- Strong expertise with AVPlayer, AVFoundation, HLS streaming, and media playback architecture.
- Proven experience building and releasing iOS and/or tvOS applications.
- Solid understanding of UI frameworks (UIKit; SwiftUI is a plus).
- Experience with performance optimization, memory profiling, and debugging tools (Instruments, Console, etc.).
- Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON parsing, and networking frameworks (URLSession, Combine, etc.).
- Experience implementing subtitles, DRM (FairPlay), and custom playback logic.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.