Director of Engineering, Disney+ Hotstar

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Job Summary

The Monetisation Adtech team is hiring the Director of Engineering to build the next phase of our Advertising Technology platform which will further accelerate the vision of monetizing the Disney+ Hotstar platform.
 
About the team

Team - Monetisation: 

We have built one of India’s largest, highly scalable, and distributed Subscription Platforms in the OTT landscape. Our Ad Platform rides on top of this scale and is among the top Video Advertising Platforms in India. Our aspiration is to make it the largest Video Advertising Platform because no one knows Video-On-Demand, Live Sports and Ads like our Ad Tech team does. We have the opportunity to penetrate countries outside of India where India’s freemium model will work just like a charm. The Disney+ Hotstar MarTech platform has replaced a globally well-known third-party vendor in this segment to build a more customized and more cost-effective platform in-house to reach, engage and grow our own customer base manifold.

Reporting to - Executive Director

Key Responsibilities

  • Vision: Partner with Product and Business teams to lead innovation and set the roadmap for the short and long term charter for Hotstar’s AdTech.
  • Tech: Work closely with the architects and senior engineers to build the best and cost efficient AdTech ecosystem that wows the Advertiser as much as it engages the end user of our platform.
  • Execution: Lead the overall software development lifecycle. Own the execution of the AdTech charter against project plans and delivery commitments.
  • People: Plan and grow the AdTech engineering charter, mentor, and build a best-of-class engineering team.

    • Skills & Attributes for Success

  • Exposure to Advertising tech especially in the Video Advertising, Programmatic and Performance world is a big plus
  • Proficient with either Java or GoLang
  • 7+ years of experience in software development with strong expertise in Java with micro web frameworks – like Play, Spring MVC, reactive programming
  • At least 5 years managing software development teams including hands-on architectural or distributed systems experience and 3 years in managing engineering managers
  • Exposure in building RESTful APIs with monitoring(New Relic, statsd, graphite), fault tolerance and metrics
  • Experience with MySQL, NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB)
  • Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch, KafkaExperience with AWS stack.
  • Experience with CI/CD processes.
  • An entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong programming and product management skills

    • Preferred Education & Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 15+  years of experience in designing and developing complex, interactive consumer applications
    • About Us
    Disney+ Hotstar is India’s leading streaming platform that has changed the way Indians watch their entertainment - from their favorite TV shows and movies to sporting extravaganzas. With the widest range of content in India, Disney+ Hotstar offers more than 100,000 hours of TV Shows and Movies in 18 languages and coverage of major global sporting events.

    As a mission-driven organization with a relentless focus on our users, we are dedicated to attracting and retaining world-class talent to drive our success.