Engineering Manager - Native Player

Engineering Manager - Native Player

Department: 61-446 - Technology - Product Technology

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Poland - Katowice

Description
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Native Player team, responsible for delivering best-in-class video playback experiences on Android, iOS, and tvOS platforms. This role involves leading a team of engineers to build, optimize, and maintain the video player framework, ensuring a seamless streaming experience for millions of users.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership: Lead the architecture, design, and development of the video player across Android, iOS, and tvOS platforms.
• Team Management: Hire, mentor, and guide a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Delivery & Execution: Oversee feature delivery, capacity planning, and estimation processes, ensuring the team meets development milestones efficiently and effectively.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Design, QA and Content Delivery & Playback teams to enhance video playback quality and user experience.
• Performance Optimization: Ensure low-latency, high-performance video streaming with smooth playback on all supported platforms.
• Scalability & Reliability: Drive improvements in the player's resilience, including error handling, buffering strategies, and adaptive bitrate streaming in collaboration with Playback Teams.
• Observability & Streaming KPIs: Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for video streaming, including startup time, rebuffering rate, latency, and error rates, ensuring optimal playback experience.
• Technology Evaluation: Stay ahead of industry trends, evaluating and integrating new technologies, codecs, and playback enhancements.
• Quality Assurance: Establish best practices for testing, monitoring, and debugging video playback performance.
• Compliance & Security: Ensure DRM, content protection, and security best practices are adhered to across platforms.
• Stakeholder Communication: Effectively communicate technical decisions, timelines, and progress to internal stakeholders.

You'll have:

• 6+ years of experience in software development, with at least 3+ years in a leadership/managerial role.
• Strong knowledge of video streaming technologies (HLS, DASH, DRM, CDN, Adaptive Bitrate Streaming).
• Hands-on experience with media players like ExoPlayer (Android), AVPlayer (iOS/tvOS), or custom player development.
• Expertise in native development using Kotlin (Android), Swift (iOS/tvOS), and cross-platform media frameworks.
• Solid understanding of media codecs
• Experience in debugging, profiling, and optimizing media playback applications.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, CI/CD, and cloud-based video streaming architectures.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and communication skills.

Benefits

• Access to DAZN streaming service
• Annual leave increasing by 3 days after 3 years
• Private medical insurance (fully financed by DAZN)
• Life assurance
• Pension scheme (Pracowniczy Program Emerytalny)
• Medicover sport and benefits' platform by NAIS (with sports, fashion, shopping, tourism, pubs, development and courses benefits with kudos, charity options)
• Vet and Life insurance for pets
• Financially rewarding ‘Refer a Friend' scheme
• Family-friendly community
• Opportunity for flexible working
• Employee Assistance Program (psychological, managerial, legal and financial counselling)
• Free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind)
• Learning and development resources
• Access to our internal speaker series and events
• High-end laptops (Macs or Windows)

About DAZN

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be.

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop.

DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW' IN WHAT WE DO:

Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen.

Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact.

Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One.

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.

Everyone has the opportunity to make change and impact our DEI journey by joining our ERGs: Proud@DAZN, Women@DAZN, Disability@DAZN and ParentZone.

If you'd like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.

Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.

We look forward to hearing from you.