Staff Software Development Engineer - iOS

Job Summary:

As a Staff Software Engineer – iOS, you will be responsible for building performant and resilient iOS applications and frameworks that deliver exceptional user experiences. You'll lead mobile architecture decisions, promote engineering best practices, and contribute to both core platform improvements and feature development.

This role requires close collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams to ship impactful features while ensuring long-term codebase quality and scalability. If you're passionate about mobile innovation and driving technical excellence, we'd love to hear from you.

About the team:

Join the team responsible for delivering world-class video playback experiences to millions of users across Desktop, Mobile Web, Smart TVs, and emerging connected devices. You'll build highly optimized player technologies for platforms including webOS, Tizen, VIDAA, and modern browsers, ensuring seamless playback, superior video quality, and exceptional user experiences across diverse network conditions. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge streaming technologies while directly shaping how users consume content on JioHotstar every day.

Key responsibilities:

• Influence and lead architecture and design discussions within the team.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-quality projects with a focus on impact and excellence.
• Establish and enhance engineering standards, drive codebase consistency, and implement processes to promote the adoption of best practices across the team.
• Take ownership of scaling mobile app development across Engineering, providing valuable insights to refine processes and tools, supporting additional contributors in architecture and code
• Take care of the development infrastructure (Xcode updates, iOS updates, swift updates)
• Mind app performance metrics to draw conclusions and drive change
• Lead modernization efforts (e.g., moving from legacy APIs and UI tools to latest patterns).
• Collaborate closely with other engineers, product managers, and designers.
• Mentor and empower iOS developers across teams.
• Additionally, contribute to knowledge-sharing initiatives by authoring insightful blogs on mobile innovation and organizing brown bag sessions and technical talks to foster a culture of continuous learning.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Proficiency in Mobile Architecture: Strong understanding of mobile architectural patterns, system design, and scalable code structures.
• Deep Expertise in iOS Development: Extensive experience building and scaling complex iOS applications using Swift and SwiftUI, with a strong grasp of UIKit, Combine, concurrency, memory management, and debugging tools.
• Performance & Tooling Focus: Experience optimizing app startup time, reducing crash rates, and building internal tools or frameworks to improve developer productivity.
• Driving Best Practices: Proficient in setting up CI/CD pipelines, static analysis tools, test automation, and processes that promote performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Knack for problem solving and ability to work in ambiguity.
• Strong communication, mentorship, and collaborative skills.

Preferred education and experience:

Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field with 7-10 years of professional experience as an iOS mobile developer with hands-on experience on Swift/Obj-C

About Us:

Perched firmly at the nucleus of spellbinding content and innovative technology, JioStar is a leading global media & entertainment company that is reimagining the way audiences consume entertainment and sports. Its television network and streaming service together reach more than 750 million viewers every week, igniting the dreams and aspirations of hundreds of million people across geographies.