Senior Android Software Engineer
Anywhere
Category: Engineer
Industry: Communications
Workplace Type: Remote
Reference ID: JN -072026-107897
Date Posted: 07/13/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/zvNqP2
Description:
Remote
Our client has an opportunity for a Senior Android Software Engineer to join a Video Player team responsible for developing and maintaining Android video playback technologies, including ownership of a Video Player SDK. This engineer will improve streaming performance, playback reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability across consumer-facing digital products.
Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $75.00 to $95.00/hr. w2
JN -072026-107897
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain an Android Video Player SDK.
- Build scalable architecture for video playback solutions.
- Implement and optimize streaming, buffering, DRM, offline playback, and performance-related features.
- Partner with Engineering, QA, and Operations teams to diagnose and resolve playback issues.
- Write clean, maintainable, high-performance code.
- Participate in code reviews and technical documentation.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams.
- Contribute to long-term platform and architectural planning.
Experience Requirements:
- 3+ years of professional Android development experience.
- Strong Kotlin and/or Java expertise.
- Experience building production-grade Android applications and SDKs.
- Hands-on experience with Media3 and/or ExoPlayer.
- Experience with DASH and/or HLS streaming and Widevine DRM.
- Understanding of video playback architecture, adaptive bitrate streaming, buffering and performance optimization, device-specific playback behavior, and streaming protocols.
- Experience developing reusable SDKs or platform components and contributing to Android architecture and technical design.
- Experience with scalable streaming or media platform solutions.
- Ability to participate in architectural discussions, provide technical input, and demonstrate strong ownership.
- Background in OTT, streaming, media, sports, entertainment, or video-centric platforms is preferred.
- Experience troubleshooting playback issues across the video delivery pipeline and familiarity with playback analytics and QoE metrics.
- Nice to have: Roku development, iOS or cross-platform media experience, video advertising integrations (IMA SDK, VAST, VMAP), playback analytics and instrumentation, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and additional streaming platform experience.
Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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