Lead Frontend Engineer

Amagi Background

Amagi is a cloud-native SaaS platform that lets every content owner deliver their content to consumers anytime, anywhere, to any device. Amagi helps bring entertainment to hundreds of millions of consumers leading the transformation in media consumption. We believe in a connected ecosystem bringing content owners, distribution platforms, consumers and advertisers together to create great experiences.

Amagi grew by 136% last year and is on its way to double itself again this year. The market leader in FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming TV), it delivers more than 500 media brands to 1500+ end points and is growing exponentially.

Amagi Thunderstorm & Analytics

Amagi Thunderstorm is our proprietary DAI (dynamic ad insertion) solution that allows our customers to monetize live, linear and VoD (video-on-demand) content at scale. It is a highly scalable, cloud-native, multi-tenant product that serves billions of ad impressions every month and continues to grow exponentially. Thunderstorm is also building market-leading innovations in DAI that uses data at scale, machine intelligence and rapid iteration and experimentation to revolutionize this market.

Amagi Analytics develops the end-to-end Analytics Product which offers critical insights across content, advertising, billing etc. to the customers. It is a highly scalable platform which ingests multiple TBs of data per day and makes them available to the end user in near real time. Analytics

Role reporting into: Director of Engineering, Amagi Thunderstorm

Location: Bangalore, India

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in UI/UX design and frontend development, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality, scalable web applications.
• Expertise in React and thorough knowledge of additional frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and tooling (Webpack, Babel).
• Strong understanding of responsive design principles, cross-browser compatibility issues, and web performance optimisation.
• Experience with consuming RESTful APIs and a good understanding of asynchronous request handling.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Design, or related fields with a solid foundation in programming principles.
• Good to have: A passion for MediaTech/AdTech and personalisation technologies, with a keen eye for UI/UX design and user-centric development.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities, creative thinking, and a collaborative spirit.

You will succeed in the job if

• You have a strong sense of ownership of the product and an attitude towards getting things done
• You like working in a high velocity environment and have a passion to bring order in chaos.