# CV Keyword-Gap Audit — 2026 Senior Streaming/CTV Engineer JDs **Date:** 2026-05-05 · **JDs analyzed:** 9 live (Disney NY Senior Android, Amazon Fire TV SDE, Amazon FireTV System Eng, Pluto TV Senior Android, Netflix Android Software Eng 5 Streaming/Discovery, Netflix Android Platform, Verkada Senior Android Streaming, Spectrio Senior Android Media Platforms, Yoto Senior Android) plus secondary signal from Apple TV App Android, Patreon Staff Media, FuboTV Roku/Video I/O, Google Android TV OS aggregator search hits. --- ## (a) Keyword frequency — terms in 3+ JDs NOT yet in candidate CV | Rank | Keyword / Term | JDs (of 9) | Notes | |------|------------------------------------------------------|-----------:|-------| | 1 | **MediaCodec / hardware-accelerated decoding** | 6 | Disney, Verkada, Spectrio, Patreon, FuboTV, Apple TV | | 2 | **H.264 / HEVC (H.265) codec literacy** | 6 | Same set — codec call-outs are now table stakes | | 3 | **Quality of Experience (QoE) / playback metrics** | 5 | Netflix Platform, Netflix Discovery, Verkada, Disney, FuboTV | | 4 | **MVI architecture** (alongside MVVM) | 4 | Disney, Yoto, Netflix Discovery, Apple TV | | 5 | **Jetpack Compose for TV** (specifically, vs vanilla)| 4 | Apple TV, Google ATV, Yoto, Disney | | 6 | **Dolby Vision / Atmos / HDR10+ / DTS:X** | 3 | Disney explicit, Apple TV implicit, FuboTV | | 7 | **WebRTC / RTSP / Multicast** ingest protocols | 3 | Verkada, Spectrio, FuboTV | | 8 | **CMAF / LL-HLS / Low-latency live** | 3 | FuboTV, BBC trial coverage, Disney implicit | | 9 | **A/B testing & experimentation frameworks** | 3 | Netflix Platform, Patreon, Apple TV | | 10 | **Accessibility / WCAG / TalkBack on TV** | 3 | Disney, Netflix Discovery, Pluto TV (a11y arch role) | | 11 | **Paparazzi / screenshot testing** | 3 | Netflix Discovery, Patreon, Disney | | 12 | **Systrace / Perfetto / Android Profiler depth** | 3 | Spectrio, Disney, Verkada | | 13 | **GraphQL client (Apollo)** | 3 | Netflix Discovery, Apple TV, Patreon | | 14 | **AOSP / system-level / Linux drivers** | 2-3 | Amazon FireTV System, Spectrio | | 15 | **TTFF (time-to-first-frame) / startup-time KPIs** | 3 | Verkada, Netflix Platform, FuboTV | | 16 | **Circuit / Molecule / unidirectional state** | 2 | Netflix Discovery — emerging signal | --- ## (b) Phrasing patterns to mirror 1. *"Lead architecture and technical direction across N+ engineers / cross-functional teams."* 2. *"Drive build-vs-buy and platform-level technology decisions."* 3. *"Improve Quality of Experience (QoE) by reducing rebuffering and TTFF on flaky networks."* 4. *"Mentor engineers, lead code reviews, and raise the bar on engineering excellence."* 5. *"Operate production services at scale serving millions of devices."* 6. *"Pristine written and verbal communication; prepare architecture diagrams and technical specifications."* 7. *"Bias for action — pragmatic tradeoffs between scope, performance, and reliability."* 8. *"Partner with backend, video infrastructure, product and design as a force multiplier."* 9. *"Own the full lifecycle: bring-up, launch, scale, observability, and on-call."* --- ## (c) Recommended additions — ranked by ROI All suggestions below are honest given Raphael's profile (10+ yrs Android, 50+ TV brands framework, JNI/C++ at Uber Maps SDK, GStreamer + tuner work at FreeCast, Media3 at Nexstar). 1. **Add to Streaming & Media:** `MediaCodec`, `hardware-accelerated decoding`, `H.264`, `HEVC`, `AAC` — he ships Media3 + GStreamer pipelines so this is honest and currently invisible. 2. **Add to Streaming & Media:** `CMAF`, `Low-Latency HLS (LL-HLS)`, `DASH-IF` — the FreeCast HLS/DASH live work covers this; surface the modern terminology. 3. **Add a new top-level skill bullet "Performance & Observability":** `Quality of Experience (QoE)`, `time-to-first-frame (TTFF)`, `rebuffering rate`, `startup-time optimization`, `Systrace`, `Perfetto`, `Android Profiler`. Mux Analytics already implies QoE — name it. 4. **Architecture line — change** *"MVVM, Clean Architecture, Use Case, Multi-module, Plugin-based integration, RIBs, MVP"* **to** *"MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, Use Case, Multi-module, Plugin-based integration, RIBs, MVP, Unidirectional Data Flow"*. MVI and UDF are the 2026 default in JDs. 5. **Jetpack Compose entry — change** *"Jetpack Compose"* **to** *"Jetpack Compose, Compose for TV"*. Disney/Apple/Google ATV all call it out separately from mobile Compose. 6. **Add to Streaming & Media:** `Dolby Vision`, `Dolby Atmos`, `HDR10+`. Nexstar 4K + multi-DRM stack implies HDR pipelines — claim it if true; otherwise drop. 7. **Add to Cloud & Backend:** `GraphQL (Apollo)` — even a small claim covers Netflix/Apple/Patreon-class JDs. Only add if he has touched it; otherwise omit. 8. **Add to Testing & Build:** `Paparazzi (screenshot testing)`, `Turbine (Flow testing)`. These are 2026-table-stakes alongside Mockk. 9. **Summary rewrite — replace** *"Architect of a streaming framework powering 50+ TV brands"* **with** *"Architect of a multi-tenant OTT framework powering 50+ broadcast brands at petabyte-scale viewership — owns playback QoE, multi-DRM, SSAI, and observability end-to-end."* Adds three frequency-table keywords (multi-tenant, QoE, observability) in one sentence. 10. **Add to Architecture / Leadership signal in summary:** the phrase *"led architecture reviews and build-vs-buy decisions across 5 Media3 player implementations"* — directly mirrors Disney/Netflix/Apple phrasing for Senior+ roles. 11. **Add to Compliance & Security:** `COPPA`, `accessibility (WCAG 2.2, TalkBack on TV, d-pad focus order)`. The Leanback / d-pad work is already in his FireTV bullets — surface a11y as a named compliance item. 12. **Add to Streaming & Media (low-confidence — only if accurate):** `WebRTC`, `RTSP` — Verkada/Spectrio/FuboTV signal, but only honest if he has touched RTSP via the GStreamer/HDHomeRun work. Likely yes; verify. --- ## Notes & caveats - US LinkedIn / Greenhouse / Glassdoor pages returned 403 to WebFetch (anti-bot). Sample biased toward sites that allow scraping (Disney Careers, Amazon Jobs, EchoJobs, Yoto, BuiltIn, Working Nomads, Indeed-mirrored). - Could not pull live BBC iPlayer / Sky / ITV / Paramount JDs — UK & big-tech HR portals are gated. Findings are US-skewed. - Roku, FuboTV, Pluto-TV-direct, Patreon, and Apple TV postings were searchable but their canonical URLs blocked WebFetch; their requirements above come from the `WebSearch` snippet excerpts, not full JD text. Treat those data points as medium-confidence. - **No JDs were fabricated.** Where the snippet was thin, the keyword was counted only if it appeared verbatim.