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February 24, 2026
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Job Description

Senior Mobile Live Video Engineer (Swift / Android / LL-HLS)

We’re looking for a senior engineer with real production live-streaming experience to stabilize an existing mobile streaming MVP.

This is not greenfield development and not a rewrite.
The work is focused on debugging, performance tuning, and reliability improvements.

What You’ll Do

  • Review the existing iOS and Android live streaming implementation
  • Diagnose and fix latency, buffering, and reliability issues
  • Validate and improve LL-HLS playback
  • Identify edge cases affecting real users
  • Make targeted improvements without re-architecting
  • Document findings and fixes

Required Experience

  • Strong iOS (Swift) development
  • Strong Android (Java) development
  • Real production experience with live video streaming
  • Experience with Low-Latency HLS (LL-HLS)
  • Experience with media servers such as:
    • OvenMediaEngine
    • Wowza
    • Ant Media
  • Comfortable jumping into existing codebases

Nice to Have

  • WebRTC familiarity
  • Backend awareness (CakePHP is used but backend work is minimal)

Important Notes

  • Short-term contract
  • Execution focused
  • No rebuilds
  • No architecture overhaul
  • Immediate start