Title: Sr. Software Engineer, Android - Fandango Location: Orlando, FL, USA Employees can work remotely Full-time Business Segment: Digital Platforms & Ventures Job Description: VERSANT is a leading force in news, sports and entertainment - home to iconic and trusted brands that inspire, inform, and delight audiences. Our unique combination of content, technology and services enriches the cultural fabric, igniting passions, sparking conversations, and connecting people to what they love most. As an independent, publicly traded company, VERSANT brings together powerhouse cable networks - including USA Network, CNBC, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Golf Channel - with dynamic digital and direct-to-consumer brands such as Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. Together, these businesses reflect our commitment to delivering exceptional experiences across every screen and service. VERSANT is an industry-changing media company fueled by innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. With a strong foundation and a forward-looking vision, VERSANT empowers creativity, embraces change, and drives connection in an ever-evolving world. Fandango is seeking a Senior Android Software Engineer to join the Video Player team. In this role, you will help design, build, and maintain Android video playback technologies, including ownership of the Video Player SDK. Why This Role Matters: Your work will directly support reliable, high-quality streaming experiences for millions of users. You will collaborate with engineers across platforms to strengthen video playback performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability across Fandango’s digital products. This is a fully remote role, with opportunities for in-person collaboration approximately 10% of the time based on business needs. What You’ll Do - Design, develop, and maintain an Android Video Player SDK using Kotlin, Java, and Android media frameworks. - Lead and contribute to scalable architecture for cross-platform video playback solutions. - Implement and optimize streaming, buffering, DRM, offline playback, and performance-related video features. - Partner with engineering, QA, and operations teams to reproduce, diagnose, and resolve playback issues across the video pipeline. - Write clean, performant, maintainable code and contribute to strong engineering practices through code reviews and documentation. - Provide technical guidance and mentorship while staying current with Android and streaming media best practices. Qualifications What You Bring - 3+ years of professional Android development experience, with strong proficiency in Kotlin and/or Java. - Experience with Media3 and/or ExoPlayer, including DASH and/or HLS streaming and Widevine DRM. - Strong understanding of video playback concepts, streaming protocols, buffering, bitrate adaptation, device-specific behavior, and performance optimization. - Experience building reliable, reusable platform components or SDKs. - Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative engineering environment. - Trust: You write reliable, maintainable code and follow through on technical commitments. - Teamwork: You collaborate across engineering, QA, operations, and platform teams to solve complex playback challenges. - Transparency: You communicate technical tradeoffs, document decisions, and share knowledge clearly. - Agility: You adapt to evolving product needs, platform changes, and emerging streaming technologies. - Entrepreneurial Spirit: You take ownership of complex technical problems and look for scalable, forward-thinking solutions. Bonus points for experience with analytics, QoE metrics, video instrumentation, web, Roku, iOS, other streaming platforms, video ad integrations such as IMA SDK, VAST, or VMAP, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing for media applications. Why You’ll Love It Here At VERSANT, you’ll help shape technology that powers trusted entertainment experiences across screens and services. You’ll join a collaborative, product-focused engineering environment where your work has meaningful impact, your technical perspective is valued, and you have room to grow. This role is remote, with periodic in-person collaboration opportunities to support team connection, planning, and business priorities. Additional Information As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. For LA County and City Residents Only: VERSANT Media will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected]. VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc. VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.

Develop Android applications for millions of users while evaluating emerging technologies to enhance the technology platform. Collaborate with teams to create user interfaces and design reusable systems that improve overall product architecture.

• Design and develop native Android applications • Implement secure authentication and membership flows (Auth0) • Integrate apps with cloud-based services and REST APIs • Collaborate closely with Product, UX, and Backend teams • Ensure high performance, reliability, and scalability of the app • Develop and maintain clean, reusable, and testable Kotlin code • Participate in CI/CD deployment pipelines for Android

Role Description Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including: - Information retrieval - Distributed computing - Large-scale system design - Networking and data storage - Security - Artificial intelligence - Natural language processing - UI design - Mobile As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities, and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward. The Virtual Device Framework team is at the forefront of evolving Android into a truly adaptive and agentic ecosystem. The team owns the foundational framework APIs including: - VirtualDeviceManager - MediaProjection - ComputerControl These APIs enable users to share their applications seamlessly across multiple devices, with other people, and with next-generation AI agents. From powering immersive features for Android XR and Android Auto to architecting the critical security and privacy guardrails for AI-driven automation, our team builds the building blocks that enable Android to transcend a single screen. The team collaborates across the organization to bridge the gap between mobile, desktop, and AI, ensuring these multi-device experiences are performant, intuitive, and secure. Android is Google’s mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc.) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. - 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree. - 2 years of experience with Android application development. - Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields (preferred). - 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms (preferred). - Experience in designing APIs and working on Android framework (preferred). - Android Development Experience in Kotlin or Java (preferred). - Android Open Source Project (AOSP) Experience (preferred). - Experience developing accessible technologies (preferred). Responsibilities - Write product or system development code. - Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies. - Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency). - Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback. - Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.