Job Description

Job Role: Lead Software Engineer - Multimedia Systems (C++/Linux)

Years of experience: 8+ years

Position: Full-Time

Location: Bangalore / Pune / Hyderabad

Immediate joiners or candidates serving a notice period with LWD as of August 20

th

, 2025.

Mandatory skills: C++, C, JavaScript, JSON, Linux.

Job Details

Roles and Responsibilities:

Contribute to Review product requirements and create technical requirements. Contribute to Design and architect new products, understand and improving existing software. Create prototype, design documents and technical tasks, suggest implementation plan. Develop core components, code review to ensure implemented as per the design. Develop tools to measure the quality of products and finding defects automatically. By 3 months you will be able to triage bugs and implement feature details by cooperating with other teams to gather information and expected behaviors. By 6 months you will understand media stack architecture in detail and what improvements need to be made for a better user experience. By 1 year you will be a feature owner that drives development of new features.

Critical Skills to Possess:

8+ years of relevant experience in architecture & design, prototyping, software development & implementation plan, code review and unit testing for consumer electronic devices. Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science, Electronics or equivalent field. Proficient in C, C++/C++11, JavaScript, JSON. Multi-threading, Cmake build system, Cross compilation, Linux understanding (process, filesystem, permission, memory), Linux shared library analysis, Linux IPC/message queues, Parse & analyze journald logs, Debug core dump files, Troubleshooting. Boost ASIO, Linux boot-up, Linux interprocess communication, Linux Services/Daemon, Socket Programming, OOAD (Object-Oriented Analysis and Design), C++ 14 & 17 features (std::optional, std::async etc.) Adaptive media streaming client-side integration, Media playback, Multimedia frameworks - Gstreamer, ffmpeg, Wayland / directfb, Apple airplay media content delivery to player, Used PlayReady DRM 4.x Collaborate with cross-functional teams, Effective communication, Convey ideas clearly in short-time. Preferred: Websockets, REST API, SnapCraft, Docker, Conan pkg manager, Github actions, Cmake, make, meson build system, Unit test frameworks - Catch2, GoogleTest, BDD test framework, Rust, Python, Jira, Shell scripting

Preferred:

Basic understanding on cryptography, Basic network TCP/UDP packet filtering & analysis