Senior Software Development Engineer - Java (immediate joiners only)

As a Software Developer, you’ll build backend systems that power the most critical moments in a user’s journey — from opening the app, to experiencing personalized, dynamic content, to experiencing. Your primary focus will be on scaling our platform infrastructure, architecting a state-of-the-art compositor engine, and evolving a multi-widget, server-driven layout system that constructs rich, adaptive pages across all devices. You’ll help ensure that hundreds of millions of users enjoy fast, seamless, and always-on experiences, no matter the time, traffic, or device.

Key Responsibilities

• Own scale-critical paths, ensuring the system can handle peak concurrency, multi-region delivery, and freshness guarantees.
• Build the infrastructure & capabilities that serves as the orchestration layer between downstream services and client apps — enabling faster experimentation, seamless rollouts, that works for every device & platform out there.
• Develop the Compositor Engine that fetches and ranks content blocks (widgets/cards), merges metadata, and serves highly contextualised page definitions to clients in milliseconds.
• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and Frontend teams on use cases like personalized feeds, layouts, and dynamic page composition.
• Improve latency, throughput, and observability across all surfaces where UI is driven from the server — including Homepage, Watch pages, and Detail views.
• Contribute to platform primitives that are used by every other team — including layout DSLs, contract validation, fallback mechanisms, and preview tooling.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and on-call rotations, maintaining high service reliability even during peak traffic.
• Continuously evaluate relevant technologies and influence architecture and design discussions Guides and mentors juniors on functional attributes and domain knowledge

• Strong coding skills (Java)
• Experience designing and building distributed systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, AWS Mediaservices experience is a plus), messaging systems (e.g., Kafka)
• Proven ability to work autonomously in fast-paced environments, manage priorities, and deliver high-impact results
• Interest in advertising technologies and optimizing systems for user and business outcomes

Preferred education and experience:

• Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field with 2-4 years of experience in backend development.

What you get

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
• Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.

About us

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world! We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies.

Today, we are a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting-edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product, and design teams. Here’s a quick guide to getting to know us better:

Here’s a quick glimpse of Proximity and what it’s like to be a Proxonaut:

• Visit  to listen to what our CEO, , has to say about Proximity.
• Meet some of our Proxonauts here: 
• Here are some quick links to the , , and  (our design wing).

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