Who we are:
Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd. is a 49/51 joint venture operation in India between Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B, world's leading entertainment content company, comprising brands like BET, MTV Networks and Paramount Pictures) (www.viacom.com) and the Network18 (www.network18online.com) Group.
- Design and architecture of highly scalable web services application.
- Make technology stack choices based on careful objective evaluation and build cutting edge applications and innovative workflows. Work with third party services to review and approve technical solutions.
- Architect Content Management Solution and scalable API platform to power one of the most popular content apps in India.
- Partner with third party technology services and contribute in making strategic inputs for defining relationships with third party services.
- Write good quality code, unit tests, automation and perform code reviews.
- Create workflows and solutions involving search, recommendations, rights management, monetization, identity management, authorization and authentication to name a few. Technical ownership of several of these platforms.
- Collaborate with product, design and other engineering team to drive execution across all platforms while balancing short-term requirements with long term objectives. Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms and products.
- 4-8+ years of back-end software development experience with extensive knowledge of Java, PHP, Python and related technologies.
- Should have experience in building and maintaining large-scale distributed systems and web services handling web-scale traffic.
- Should have excellent coding skills and good understanding algorithms and data structures.
- Expertise in distributed systems, SQL and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Redis, MySQL), scalability, AWS services such as EC2, ELB, AWS Lambda, API Gateway
- Experience in troubleshooting infrastructure failures, infrastructure management frameworks (Mesos, Kubernetes), REST API development
- Excellent knowledge of hosting web services like AWS, Google Compute, Azure, etc.
- Hands on experience in building Java/Scala based Hadoop/Spark applications
- Knowledge and/or experience in building OTT/IPTV/online video service would be a bonus
- Familiarity with front-end web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, AngularJS etc.
- Understanding & experience in building efficient search & recommendation platforms; experience in Machine/ Deep Learning would be beneficial.
