About Wynk

With unrelenting focus on product innovation, a vibrant team and an exciting work culture - Wynk is a start-
up within the telecom giant, Airtel. Wynk provides a digital platform to access on-the-go entertainment
content across Music, Live TV, Movies & TV Shows. The carrier-agnostic and multi-device compatible
applications enable customers to stream, download and buy content. The products are designed to leverage
the strengths of a telecom backbone in terms of identifying & catering to the preferences of customers,
thus providing high quality entertainment content on multiple platforms. We’re recognizable by our flagship
products which need little introduction – Wynk Music & Airtel TV.

Launched in 2014, Wynk Music is today India’s No.1 music app with over 100 million app installs. With many
industry-first innovations under its belt and strong industry partnerships in place, it is today leading the
market with consistent growth in active users and engagement rates. It has been awarded the Editor’s
choice badge on Google Play store. Airtel TV is a TV-on-mobile proposition from Airtel with over 375 Live
Channels, 9000 movies and more than 100 original shows that includes a rich catalog of the latest and best
international, Bollywood and regional video content, alongwith strategic partnerships with Amazon Prime,
Hotstar etc. Its active user base is beyond 25 million in number, placing it on a hyper growth path. In the
near future, Airtel TV aims to be the top marketplace for OTT video content in India.

ROLE: Software Developer – across Backend / Data Engineering / Android / iOS / Web

Wynk’s apps have a combined monthly active user base of ~50 mn. It is immense scale, and how! The
organization is also venturing into various other OTT products and devices. The scale, startup-like
empowering environment, immense learning opportunities & access to cutting edge technology is every
developer’s dream: allowing him/her to gain exposure and develop a steep learning curve.

YTLs with Wynk will get a chance to work on many of our existing and upcoming products, including our
Wynk Music, Airtel TV, revenues & subscriptions and AdTech platforms. We foster the spirit of
entrepreneurship & empowerment, which gives a developer the chance to be a part of the entire product
life cycle starting from identifying the problem statement to developing their own unique technical
solutions. In addition, there is mentoring, support and leader-touch, at every step of the journey – right
from hiring you at campus, keeping you involved with what’s happening at Wynk, inducting you &
equipping you with all the functional training that will enable you to do your job well, & growing your career
in a structured manner.

Key work done by Engineering team in Wynk around Digital Channels and Product Engineering

 Track user behaviors & taking real-time actions using distributed systems and data streaming stack
consisting of Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, Storm etc.
 Personalized help & support using Elastic search and NLP based solutions.
 We heavily use variety of NoSQL solutions to cater our variety of data persistence use cases. E.g.
MongoDB, Aerospike, Cassandra
 We follow industry best software development methodologies like Modular Development
Approach, Microservices, Clean Architecture, Viper etc.
 We practice tools like Git, Github for code management and industry standard tools for continuous
integration & deployment, Configurations management and infra management e.g. chef, Jenkins
etc.
  We process GBs of log data per day using Lambda architecture to understand our user better.
 Deployed multiple industry best monitoring systems like ELK to track any failures in our production
environment.
 Teams having solid & rich experience working in both Web & App domain serving million users per
day
 We use range of tools/languages/frameworks/libraries for our software development like Spring
Projects, Caching Frameworks(Redis/Aerospike),
 Web Technologies(JS/Angular), NIO framework (Netty, Node JS), NoSQL Databases (Cassandra,
MongoDB), Relational Databases(Oracle), Search Server (Solr, Elasticsearch)
 We are agile. Our process is collaborative, transparent, use-centric and iterative.
 Our native apps follow development best practices. Migrated fully to Kotlin and Swift for
development.Using Dagger2, Proto Buff, firebase, okhttp etc.
 Tracking and tuning performance of the apps in depth

Fun Facts:

1. Wynk Music is the Number 1 OTT Music app in the country in terms of Monthly Active Users &
share of category time
2. Wynk Music streams 50mn songs on daily basis
3. Data pipeline for wynk music processes ~2 Billion events daily
4. Wynk Music monthly songs played are more than the reported population of India