iOS Video Player Engineer

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About the Role

We’re looking for an iOS engineer who knows their way around video - not just playing it, but building smooth, resilient, production-ready streaming experiences. If you’ve spent real time with AVPlayer, understand the quirks of live vs VOD delivery, and enjoy solving problems that only show up at scale, you’ll fit right in.

What You’ll Work On

• Build and maintain our native iOS video player using AVPlayer and related frameworks
• Deliver reliable Live and VOD playback experiences across a range of network conditions and devices
• Implement features like custom UI, DRM, subtitles, casting, analytics hooks, and offline playback
• Troubleshoot playback, buffering, edge cases, and performance issues
• Work closely with backend, product, and QA to ship features quickly and with confidence
• Help shape long-term player architecture and influence best practices across the team

What We’re Looking For

• Solid experience developing iOS apps in Swift
• Strong hands-on expertise with AVPlayer, AVFoundation, and video pipeline internals
• Proven background with HLS (and ideally DASH), adaptive bitrate logic, and modern streaming workflows
• Experience with both Live and VOD streaming, including low-latency scenarios
• Familiarity with DRM (FairPlay), subtitles/captions, ad insertion (SSAI/CSAI), and media analytics
• Comfortable profiling and improving performance - startup time, memory usage, crashes, CPU/GPU load, etc.
• Bonus: Experience with video SDKs, custom renderers, or building players from scratch