Android Software Engineer, Philo

$130-210k

Android
Kotlin
Mid and Senior level
New York
Remote from US
Philo

Live TV streaming service

Job no longer available

Philo

Live TV streaming service

101-200 employees

B2CEntertainmentDigital MediaVideo

Job no longer available

$130-210k

Android
Kotlin
Mid and Senior level
New York
Remote from US

101-200 employees

B2CEntertainmentDigital MediaVideo

Company mission

To provide affordable and accessible television streaming services to everyone.

Role

Who you are

  • Extremely proficient in Kotlin
  • Familiar with the Android ecosystem, including feature sets and best practices across devices and operating system versions
  • Experienced with reactive programming and/or coroutines

Desirable

  • Experience with video playback
  • Experience with or interest in Android based set-top box platforms (Fire TV, Android TV, etc)
  • Experience with GraphQL-based APIs
  • Experience with TV Integration Framework
  • Experience with cross device interoperability (e.g. casting)
  • Experience building multi-modal experiences

What the job involves

  • Leading development of our Philo Connect feature, a cross-platform second-screen experience that lets you fully control your large screen (“Ten foot”) viewing experience from your smartphone, maintaining a synchronized playback session that lets you browse for new content while controlling your current content playback. This technology is also the building block for upcoming co-viewing features
  • Building a generic focus management framework that we think simplifies a lot of the gaps in system focus, and is much lighter-weight than leanback's GridView. It is a set of custom views that delegate focusSearch and onRequestFocusInDescendants. We hope to open source this library very soon!
  • Starting to build out Kotlin Multi Platform libraries to share code between our iOS and Android apps
  • Developing our own lightweight MVI framework that we built on top of RX, which we are now starting to port over to coroutines

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Insights

Top investors

10% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Full health, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
  • 401(k) plan with employer contributions (we match 100% of deferrals up to 3% of pay and 50% of the next 2% of pay)
  • Flexible working hours
  • Up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave
  • Unlimited paid time off for vacation and sick leave
  • $2,000 annual vacation bonus (we pay you to take a two week vacation)
  • $5,250 annually for professional development and educational assistance
  • $1,250 annual home office + TV stipend during first year of employment ($250 annually thereafter)
  • $500/month ($6,000/year) bonus for employees who commit to working at least 3 days per week in our offices, plus generous commuter benefits ($315/month towards transit, rideshare, bike rental, or parking at our HQ office in San Francisco)
  • Free Gympass subscription — an all-in-one corporate benefit that gives employees the largest selection of gyms, studios, classes, training and wellness apps
  • Dog-friendly office
  • And much more!

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Aug 2020

$50m

SERIES D

Jul 2018

$41.4m

SERIES C

Total funding: $155.7m

Our take

Streaming services offer cheaper options than cable TV packages, but prices are beginning to rise. This is partly due to packages beginning to bundle costly sports and other media packages that viewers do not necessarily want.

Philo offers a streaming service that aims to provide a streamlined selection of channels as an affordable, yet comprehensive, viewing option. The streamlined and high-quality channel offerings are available to viewers at $25 per month, a price significantly lower than standard cable subscriptions, with the base option including 60 live channels and over 75,000 on-demand offerings.

Whilst other streaming platforms offer affordable packages, Philo stands out with unique features such as a co-viewing service that allows up to three people to watch the same program together. The company has also proven its dedication to improved user experiences, as it expands its compatibility with devices such as smart TVs.

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