Software Development Engineer II (Web) - VX

JioStar; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

JioHotstar is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to build a world-class content viewing experience at massive scale. You will design and deliver high-quality distributed frontend applications for the JioHotstar website and TV apps, upholding exceptional operational standards.

Join the Viewer Experience team to shape the end-to-end user journey, collaborate with product stakeholders, and contribute to a robust in-house Design system while writing clean, scalable code.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of professional frontend development experience with JavaScript.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver end-to-end features with high performance, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Collaborate with product stakeholders to deliver new user-facing features on the website/TV app.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and implement them.
• Build reusable code and cross-functional libraries contributing to our Design system.
• Document and demonstrate solutions with documentation, DFDs, and code comments.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code and participate in code reviews.

Skills

JavaScript

Browser internals

Design patterns

Learning mindset

Framework knowledge

Open source

Git

Build tools

Education

Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Job Summary:

As a Software Development Engineer II, you’ll build a world-class content viewing experience for our customers by solving complex technical problems and building systems which run at an enormous scale. The role is expected to design and deliver high-quality distributed applications and also keep an extremely high operational excellence bar to provide a seamless experience to our customers on the JioHotstar website and TV applications.

About the team:

At JioHotstar, the Viewer Experience (VX) org is at the heart of how millions discover, engage with, and fall in love with our platform. We own the end-to-end user journey—from first app launch to daily habit loops—across Search, Personalization, Watch Experience, Interactivity, and more. We blend world-class engineering, ML, design, and data to deliver a seamless, personalized, and engaging OTT experience at massive scale. If you’re passionate about building immersive, intelligent, and performant user experiences that delight a billion users, join us in shaping the future of streaming.

Key responsibilities:

• Own and deliver end-to-end features, ensuring high performance, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility
• Collaborate with stakeholders of the product to deliver new user-facing features on the website/TV app
• You will ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and implement them
• You will build reusable code and cross-functional libraries in contributing to our extensive in-house Design system
• Document and demonstrate solutions by creating documentation, DFDs, code comments
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code using best practices and participate in code reviews

Skills and attributes for success:

• Strong experience in JavaScript
• Deep knowledge about how browsers work
• Deep understanding about design & architecture patterns
• Highly enthusiastic and enjoy learning new technologies and frameworks
• You know why a framework is necessary and know any of React, AngularJS etc
• Open source contribution is good to have
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git
• Familiarity with front-end build tools, such as Grunt or Gulp
  

Preferred education and experience:

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field with 2-4 years of professional experience as a frontend developer with hands-on experience on Javascript.