Lead of Hub and Client Software Development

New York, NY, United States, Remote, Silicon Valley, CA, United States • $200k - $300k

Siden


Role Locations

  • New York, NY, United States
  • Remote
  • Silicon Valley, CA, United States

Compensation

$200k - $300k

Employees

26 - 50 people

Address

75 E Santa Clara St
San Jose, CA, 95113-1827, US

Tech Stack

  • AWS
  • Go
  • MongoDB
  • GraphQL
  • Git
  • Kotlin
  • Redis
  • Redshift
  • React

Role Description

This role will be responsible for leading the software development on the Siden Hub – home appliance offering a combination of an LTE / WiFi Gateway and an AndroidTV based video serving system for consumer homes, as well as the client development on major platforms including AndroidTV, Android, and iOS. Responsibilities will span architecture of the software components of the Siden Hub, leading software development of the Siden Hub codebase, contributing to the development of the Siden App on AndroidTV, Android, and iOS platforms, and interfacing with the backend teams to execute an end-to-end content distribution and video delivery and entertainment service.

Experience:

  • Leading expertise and experience with key components of OS and middleware layer SDKs across at least Linux and Android, especially with regard to enabling use of devices as high performance local compute and media servers
  • Solid experience with CDN and distributed cloud architectures, as instantiated on home appliances and user devices, including caches, local proxies, service discovery, real-time IP networking, client-sides of IP protocol stacks, and client-side containerization
  • Experience with video services and OTT Video service transcoding, delivery, and serving is helpful
  • Experience with interfacing wireless LTE / 5G device stacks, is helpful but not required
  • Expert knowledge of Kotlin / Android / Java and C++, as well as any iOS for client-side code development, and immediate ability to develop and lead development of best in class client codebase
  • Client side best security practices, including DRM management
  • Development of client-side user applications across UI and UX, especially as applied to OTT Video services on popular home platforms like Amazon and Roku, are a plus
  • Agile software development management and distributed team collaboration

Thank you for your interest in Siden. We look forward to connecting soon!

About Siden

Siden is a rapidly scaling company, with a cloud infrastructure as a service offering, which enables wireless operators (MNOs) to win the home Internet market (with a global opportunity of over a billion homes). We achieve this by expanding MNO’s wireless capacity by 5-10x, enabling them to offer a fiber-like broadband service to homes, using their wireless networks. We have a bold mission of bringing this service to the over 1B home consumers globally, with wireless operators converting their billions of smartphone users and also enabling them to participate in the OTT Video revolution in the living rooms. We leverage edge caching, predictive AI, and underutilized network capacity using an entirely cloud-based content distribution service. We are developing a best-in-class cloud microservices architecture, as well as distributed caching appliances and an in-home Hub, which work together to fulfill content distribution for leading SVOD offerings watched on SmartTVs, smartphones, and the myriad of connected devices in the home. Siden will help unlock home Internet and streaming video for 100s of millions of users globally, and we need your help!

Company Culture

Our culture is full of team players that have an ownership mentality. Attention to detail and quality is pervasive throughout our team. We work remotely which lets us all enjoy the lack of commute and complete flexibility in work environment, while focusing on productivity toward an ambitious mission.

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