Senior iOS Software Engineer, Fandango at Home

Role Overview

As a Senior iOS Software Engineer on the Fandango APEX Video Player team, you will play a critical role in shaping the video playback experience for millions of users. You’ll design, build, and evolve our iOS Video Player SDK, enabling reliable, high-quality streaming across our platforms.
What You Will Do

Design, build, and maintain a robust iOS Video Player SDK using Swift and Apple media frameworks. Lead and contribute to scalable architecture for cross-platform video playback solutions. Implement and optimize streaming features including HLS playback, buffering, DRM (FairPlay), and offline capabilities.
Why It Might Be a Fit

Video playback is core to Fandango’s digital experience. Your work will directly impact streaming reliability, performance, and innovation—ensuring audiences can seamlessly engage with the content they love.
Requirements

- Strong experience in iOS development with deep proficiency in Swift and Apple frameworks (AVFoundation, AVPlayer)

- Hands-on expertise with HLS streaming, DRM (FairPlay), and video playback optimization

- Solid understanding of streaming protocols, playback performance, and debugging issues such as buffering and bitrate adaptation

- Experience building scalable, maintainable systems and contributing to shared SDKs or platform components

- Familiarity with analytics, QoE metrics, and instrumentation is a plus

- Exposure to additional platforms (Android, Roku, web) or video ad integrations (VAST/VMAP) is a plus

Benefits

- Competitive benefits package including health, wellness, and retirement support

- A culture that values innovation, ownership, and continuous learning

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