Senior Backend Engineer (6-month Contract)

About the role

VoD Video Engineering team is the backbone of our streaming platform — responsible for the entire lifecycle of on-demand video content, from ingest and transcoding through packaging, storage, and delivery. We own mission-critical systems that process thousands of hours of video daily, serving a global audience with reliability, low latency, and the highest quality of experience.

What you'll do

• Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for video ingest, transcoding job orchestration, ABR packaging, and content delivery workflows
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex VoD backend features — from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and operational handoff
• Write high-quality, well-tested, and maintainable code; drive code review culture and champion engineering best practices within the team
• Contribute to architectural decisions for the VoD platform, evaluating trade-offs across throughput, latency, cost, and reliability
• Integrate VoD pipeline components with internal platform services including CMS, CDN origin, DRM/entitlement systems, and metadata APIs

What you need

• 3–6 yrs of experience
• System design
• Python
• Java
• Go
• Kafka
• Redis
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or MCA or M.Sc

Good to have

• AWS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• Terraform
• Incident response