5V Video · 16 hours ago
IOS Video Player Engineer
United States
Contract
Remote
Mid Level5V Video is seeking an iOS engineer to build and maintain their native iOS video player. The role involves delivering reliable live and VOD playback experiences while collaborating with backend, product, and QA teams to implement features and troubleshoot performance issues.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Dan BURRELL
Responsibilities
Build and maintain our native iOS video player using AVPlayer and related frameworks
Deliver reliable Live and VOD playback experiences across a range of network conditions and devices
Implement features like custom UI, DRM, subtitles, casting, analytics hooks, and offline playback
Troubleshoot playback, buffering, edge cases, and performance issues
Work closely with backend, product, and QA to ship features quickly and with confidence
Help shape long-term player architecture and influence best practices across the team
Qualification
Required
Solid experience developing iOS apps in Swift
Strong hands-on expertise with AVPlayer, AVFoundation, and video pipeline internals
Proven background with HLS (and ideally DASH), adaptive bitrate logic, and modern streaming workflows
Experience with both Live and VOD streaming, including low-latency scenarios
Familiarity with DRM (FairPlay), subtitles/captions, ad insertion (SSAI/CSAI), and media analytics
Comfortable profiling and improving performance - startup time, memory usage, crashes, CPU/GPU load, etc
Preferred
Experience with video SDKs, custom renderers, or building players from scratch
Company
5V Video
5V Video is a talent solutions consultancy that has been instrumental in scaling technical teams for some of the most prominent video platforms in the world.
Founded in 2022
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase