Senior/Staff, Android Engineer(Streaming Player) - Coupang Play

About Coupang Play 

Coupang Play is an OTT video streaming service. We offer a wide range of content, including Original Series, TV Shows, Movies, and Sports. 

We are in the business of delivering exceptional storytelling. We produce award-winning scripted and unscripted Original Series, such as “Boyhood”, “Anna”, and “SNL Korea”. We believe Sports can also be elevated by creative storytelling. Play is now an authoritative destination for Sports, broadcasting K-League, La Liga, Bundesliga, F1, NFL, and other leading leagues and tournaments. We also offer some of the latest movies that were just released in local theaters, bringing more exceptional storytelling to our Customers. 

To ensure that we deliver all content seamlessly, we invest in Engineering, Product, and Design. Coupang Play is available on all mobile devices, tablets, PC, Smart TV, Apple TV, and Android TV. Our teams keep optimizing how Customers discover and stream both VOD and Live content. That includes investments in frontend, backend, and infrastructural developments. We also embrace Machine Learning to refine our CX. 

We are still very early in our growth stage. If you enjoy solving complex problems using industry-leading technology or unconventional business approaches, please join us. We are building a world-class team of problem-solvers, all dedicated to delivering exceptional storytelling to our Customers. 

Role Overview 

The Streaming Player and Experience team aims to deliver the best viewing experience to Coupang Play users.

We work across the entire playback stack – from the playback engine to the user interface – continuously improving UI/UX and building new viewing-experience features to create a more seamless and immersive streaming environment. We continuously enhance playback performance through data-driven diagnostics and technical insights, ensuring stable and high-quality streaming across all platforms.

Our team collaborates closely with Video Infrastructure, Product, Design, and other cross-functional partners to elevate the overall viewing experience end-to-end.

As an Android engineer on the Streaming Player and Experience team, you will design and enhance playback services which shape a better viewing experience across Android platforms, including mobile, tablet, and TV. Your role includes designing scalable and flexible architectures that reliably support viewing-experience features such as Live Time-Machine (DVR) and Multi-View. You will also contribute to continuous performance improvements through data-driven iteration and technical analysis. You will play a key role in delivering a differentiated and immersive viewing experience for Coupang Play users.

What You Will Do 

• Create better viewing experiences by building new features and improving the UI/UX of the Coupang Play service.
• Design, develop and optimize features that elevate the streaming playback experience.
• Architect and evolve the core playback service to support scalability, modularity, and cross-platform consistency.
• Continuously improve playback quality, performance, and user experience through technical deep dives, data analysis, and A/B testing.
• Collaborate with teams across Streaming Pipeline, Product, and Design teams to deliver best streaming quality and user experience.

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of professional software development experience with strong Kotlin skills
• Experience with A/B testing and metrics analysis
• Ability to design scalable architecture, to write clean, testable, efficient code, and to measure performance
• Strong verbal and written communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience in large-scale streaming services, player feature development, or performance optimization
• Experience migrating existing screens to Jetpack Compose or improving them using Compose
• Experience designing and developing UI/UX to enhance the overall user experience
• Experience with media codecs (AAC, AVC, HEVC, or AV1) and streaming protocols (HLS, DASH)
• Expertise in media related frameworks such as ExoPlayer or Media3
• Expertise in digital rights management (DRM) such as Widevine, Fairplay and PlayReady

Recruitment Process and Others 

Recruitment Process  

• Application Review - 1st Interview - 2nd Tech Interview - Leadership interview – Offer  

• The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.  

• Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.  

Details to Consider  

• This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.  

• Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.  

• Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veteran’s benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws.  

• Job titles and responsibilities may be subject to change depending on the candidate’s overall experience, etc. This will be communicated to the candidate at the appropriate time before the offer.  

• Hiring may be restricted in case the legal qualifications required for hiring and work performance is not met.  

Privacy Notice  

• Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below. 

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