Sr. Software Engineer, Android - Fandango

Fandango is seeking a Senior Android Software Engineer to join the Video Player team. In this role, you will help design, build, and maintain Android video playback technologies, including ownership of the Video Player SDK.

Why This Role Matters: Your work will directly support reliable, high-quality streaming experiences for millions of users. You will collaborate with engineers across platforms to strengthen video playback performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability across Fandango’s digital products.

This is a fully remote role, with opportunities for in-person collaboration approximately 10% of the time based on business needs.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain an Android Video Player SDK using Kotlin, Java, and Android media frameworks.
• Lead and contribute to scalable architecture for cross-platform video playback solutions.
• Implement and optimize streaming, buffering, DRM, offline playback, and performance-related video features.
• Partner with engineering, QA, and operations teams to reproduce, diagnose, and resolve playback issues across the video pipeline.
• Write clean, performant, maintainable code and contribute to strong engineering practices through code reviews and documentation.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship while staying current with Android and streaming media best practices.

Do you have experience in Video streaming?, What You Bring

• 3+ years of professional Android development experience, with strong proficiency in Kotlin and/or Java.
• Experience with Media3 and/or ExoPlayer, including DASH and/or HLS streaming and Widevine DRM.
• Strong understanding of video playback concepts, streaming protocols, buffering, bitrate adaptation, device-specific behavior, and performance optimization.
• Experience building reliable, reusable platform components or SDKs.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative engineering environment.
• Trust: You write reliable, maintainable code and follow through on technical commitments.
• Teamwork: You collaborate across engineering, QA, operations, and platform teams to solve complex playback challenges.
• Transparency: You communicate technical tradeoffs, document decisions, and share knowledge clearly.
• Agility: You adapt to evolving product needs, platform changes, and emerging streaming technologies.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: You take ownership of complex technical problems and look for scalable, forward-thinking solutions.

Bonus points for experience with analytics, QoE metrics, video instrumentation, web, Roku, iOS, other streaming platforms, video ad integrations such as IMA SDK, VAST, or VMAP, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing for media applications.

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