Proximity Works

Job Summary:

As a Software Development Engineer II in VoD Video Engineering team, you will design and build the core backend systems that power our Video-on-Demand platform — spanning content ingest, transcoding, adaptive bitrate packaging, and delivery at scale. You will own complex projects end-to-end, make meaningful architectural contributions, and play a hands-on role in raising the quality and reliability of our video processing infrastructure. This role is ideal for engineers who are passionate about distributed systems, media technology, and delivering exceptional streaming experiences to hundreds of millions of viewers.

About the Team:

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. Our team operates at the forefront of media technology, collaborating closely with CDN, playback, and content operations teams to continuously raise the bar on performance and scalability. If you're passionate about large-scale distributed systems and the technology behind modern video streaming, this is the team to be on.

Key responsibilities

• 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.
• Take ownership of production reliability: participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and drive preventive improvements.
• Optimize video processing workflows for cost efficiency, throughput, and time-to-publish — including transcoding profile tuning and pipeline parallelism.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, content operations, and cross-functional engineering teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical design discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions; help grow the overall capability of the team.

Skills and attributes for success:

• 3+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, with a strong track record building and operating distributed systems in production.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java with solid foundations in system design.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) — including compute, object storage (S3), managed queues (SQS/SNS), and serverless or containerized workloads.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems design: event-driven architectures, message queues (Kafka), workflow orchestration, and idempotency patterns.
• Experience with storage systems, caching strategies (Redis, Memcached), and database query performance tuning.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Comfort with observability tooling — logging, metrics, and tracing — and a habit of building production-ready services from day one.
• Strong communication skills — able to clearly articulate technical approaches and trade-offs to peers, leads, and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborative team player who takes pride in lifting up those around them through mentorship and knowledge sharing.

Preferred education and experience:

• Bachelors/Master’s in computer science or a related field with 3+ years of experience in backend development

Job Summary:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of core systems that drive JioStar's lifecycle engagement, personalized marketing automation (Martech), and strategic partnership integrations. You'll own large-scale, high-concurrency systems end-to-end—from real-time event tracking and reward engines to partner sync pipelines—operating with autonomy and shaping the technical architecture of our ecosystem. This role is ideal for engineers who excel at solving complex distributed data problems, building scalable backend services, and mentoring others toward engineering excellence.

About the Team

Our team sits at the intersection of user retention, growth, and ecosystem monetization. We build and scale the platforms that power automated engagement campaigns, and seamless integrations with external partners and brands.

Whether we are processing high-throughput event streams for real-time personalization, orchestrating complex cross-channel martech workflows, or managing high-availability transactional data stores, our engineering focus is on resilience, speed, and clean architecture. If you are passionate about building systems that directly impact millions of users' retention and engagement journeys, we'd love to talk.

Key responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, resilient microservices that power engagement triggers, and partner integrations.
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex backend projects, from technical design to deployment and monitoring
• Write high-quality, maintainable code, and ensure rigorous testing and fault tolerance
• Drive architectural decisions and influence long-term engineering strategy for the team
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into tech solutions
• Take ownership of operational excellence, including performance tuning, incident response, and root cause analysis
• Mentor junior engineers, conduct technical deep dives and code reviews, and foster a culture of knowledge sharing

Skills and attributes for success:

• Proficiency in Java, Golang, or Python
• Experience designing and building distributed systems at scale
• Strong understanding of storage systems, query performance, and caching strategies
• specifically experience with Amazon DynamoDB (single-platform design, partition keys, GSIs) and relational stores.
• experience with distributed caching strategies and tools
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), messaging systems (Kafka), CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions and Docker)
• Proven ability to work autonomously, prioritize tasks, and manage delivery timelines in fast-paced environments
• You are passionate about growing engineers and leading by example

Preferred education and experience:

Bachelors/Master's in computer science or a related field with 4–6 years of experience in backend development.

We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low-latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for developing new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities—

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code.
• Solving complex technical problems.
• Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.
• Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards.
• Participating in and driving code reviews.
• Building robust, secure, and scalable microservices.
• Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
• Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible for implementing relational, document, key, object, or graph data stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
• Tracking defects and work with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog
• Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
• Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.
• Architecting & designing the platform.
• Mentoring junior engineers helping them grow, performing code reviews, system monitoring & delegation.
• Writing documentation & create engineering processes.
• Working as an individual contributor.
• Helping drive KPIs with Product.
• Taking ownership of backend systems.
• Helping with unit tests & QA process.
• Scaling the engineering team.
• System scaling to hundreds of millions of users.
• Working with product managers and designs.

Requirements—

• Overall 5-10 years of experience in software development with a strong base in Golang/Java/Python and a degree in Computer Science(optional).
• Experience with Go, K8, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD.
• Experience with micro web frameworks – like Springboot, Gin/Mux.
• Experience in working with microservice architectures, Transactional systems, and Distributed environments.
• Exposure to building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance, and metrics (with something like Hystrix).
• Experience with MySQL, and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ.
• DevOps experience.
• Experience with AWS stack.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal to no guidance in a fluid environment.
• To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
• To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities.
• To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments.
• To have led or mentored an engineering team before(optional).
• To have contributed to open-source projects.
• To have a strong drive & desire for continued growth.
• Proficiency in English.
• Experience with Web3(optional).

Benefits—

• Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
• Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
• High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.

About us—

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.

We’re seeking a highly skilled, execution-focused Senior Backend Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience to join our team. This role demands hands-on expertise in building and scaling distributed systems, strong proficiency in Java, and deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure. You will be expected to design robust backend services, optimize performance across storage and caching layers, and enable seamless integrations using modern messaging and CI/CD pipelines.

You’ll be working in a high-scale, high-impact environment where reliability, speed, and efficiency are paramount. If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and have a passion for distributed systems, this is the right role for you.

Responsibilities—

• Design, develop, and maintain distributed backend systems at scale.
• Write high-performance, production-grade code in Java.
• Architect and optimize storage systems, ensuring efficient query performance and scalable data models.
• Implement caching strategies to reduce latency and improve system throughput.
• Build and manage services leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Develop resilient messaging pipelines using Kafka (or equivalent) for real-time data processing.
• Define and streamline CI/CD pipelines, ensuring rapid and reliable deployment cycles.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and apply proactive fixes.
• Drive best practices in software engineering, testing, and code reviews. 

Requirements—

• 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, with deep hands-on coding experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java and familiarity with modern frameworks.
• Proven track record in building scalable distributed systems.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS).
• Solid understanding of messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Strong grasp of query performance optimization and storage system design.
• Experience with caching solutions (Redis, Memcached, etc.).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive mindset.

Benefits—

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
• Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.

About us—

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.