Senior Android Engineer

DAZN

Why Join DAZN?

Joining DAZN in Hyderabad means being part of a cutting-edge sports streaming company in a vibrant tech hub. You’ll work alongside passionate, talented professionals on innovative projects that reach millions of fans worldwide. Hyderabad offers a dynamic work environment with a great balance of career growth and lifestyle. If you’re excited about shaping the future of live and on-demand sports entertainment, DAZN Hyderabad is the perfect place to make your mark and grow your career.

Key Responsibilities

We are looking for a hands-on Android Software Engineer with 3–4 years of experience to join our product engineering team. The ideal candidate has strong coding skills, a solid foundation in Android development, and a passion for building high-quality mobile applications. You will contribute to feature development, performance improvements, and end-to-end delivery of Android app experiences, including video playback and streaming integrations.

1. Application Development

  • Develop and maintain Android applications for mobile .
  • Write clean, testable, and maintainable Kotlin-based code following best practices.
  • Implement UI components using modern Android frameworks and architecture patterns.
  • Optimize app performance, memory usage, and responsiveness.

2. Feature Implementation

  • Contribute to the development of new features from requirement to release.
  • Integrate RESTful APIs and third-party SDKs for analytics, features etc.

3. Collaboration & Delivery

  • Work closely with product, design, and QA teams to translate requirements into working solutions.
  • Participate in code reviews, ensuring code quality and consistency.
  • Debug issues, analyse crashes, and support release cycles.

4. Streaming & Playback (Nice to Have)

  • Basic understanding of video streaming formats (HLS, DASH) and DRM.
  • Exposure to troubleshooting playback, buffering, or adaptive streaming scenarios.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Qualifications & Skills

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Technical Skills

  • Strong proficiency in Kotlin ,Jetpack Compose
  • Hands-on experience with Android SDK, Jetpack components, and MVVM clean architecture.
  • Experience working with REST APIs, JSON, and networking libraries (Retrofit/OkHttp).
  • Familiarity with:
    • ExoPlayer or other media playback libraries (advantage)
    • Coroutines, ViewModel, LiveData/Flow
  • Dependency injection (Hilt/Dagger)
  • Solid understanding of debugging, performance optimization, and memory management.
  • Experience using Git and CI/CD workflows.
  • Unit/UI testing (JUnit, Espresso).

Soft Skills

  • Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking.
  • Good communication and teamwork abilities.
  • Ownership mindset and willingness to learn in a fast-paced environment.

Additional Preferred Experience

  • Crash reporting & analytics tools (Firebase, Crashlytics, etc.).
  • Agile/Scrum development experience.

About DAZN

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop.

DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:

Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen.

Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact.

Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One.

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.

If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.

Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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