Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Summary

Join GameChanger's video team as a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to lead the expansion of our video capabilities. You will be a hands-on engineer designing, implementing, and supporting video features across the entire video pipeline. Collaborate with various teams to develop video-related projects, improve user experience, and ensure a scalable platform. Responsibilities include building backend video platforms, collaborating on multifaceted projects, reviewing code, building internal SDKs, and creating monitoring systems. The role requires extensive experience in video streaming, various programming languages, and cloud environments. GameChanger offers a remote-first work environment with competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Background in video and audio streaming with a focus on live-streaming of user-generated content
• Understanding of the basics of audio and video packaging principles, codecs, and other associated tools, including their relative tradeoffs, such as MPEG Video, MPEG-2 TS, HLS, DASH, H.264 AVC, H.265 HEVC, VP9, AV1, VVC, RTMP/enhanced RTMP, SRT, FFMPEG, and DRM
• Hands-on software development experience designing and building live and video on demand streaming workflows and exposure to video technologies around mobile broadcast, ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and related systems at scale
• 5+ years of experience reading (preferably coding) in languages commonly used in the video space, such as c#/golang/C++/Rust/Python, and experience in other higher-level languages such as Node/TypeScript, React, or mobile languages like Kotlin or Swift
• Familiarity with mobile video broadcasting of user-generated content and the challenges of optimizing streaming quality and reliability across a variety of devices and network conditions
• Hands-on experience with one or more video players
• Experience designing/building/connecting internal APIs/SDKs across the stack (backend to front end) to ensure rapid feature development
• Willingness to mentor/train/work with other teams through documentation and live sessions on the best way to accomplish building features using the system we build/own
• Front end development experience in web, iOS (Swift), or Android (Kotlin) required
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Help to design, implement/code, and support video features across the video pipeline stack, including live video ingestion, transcoding, integration, storage, and playback/usage at scale
• Work on our backend video platform (written in TypeScript) providing APIs for other teams to build customer experiences from
• Collaborate with other members of the team and other teams including: mobile, web, machine learning/computer vision, and platform teams on multi-faceted projects across the entire video processing system to lead improved user experiences and outcomes
• Review and provide feedback on designs and code/PRs
• Help build internal SDKs, frameworks, and tooling to allow product development teams to easily integrate video into the product at different stages of the video pipeline
• Help build real-time monitoring and measurement systems for critical operational workflows in the video pipeline, including tools for on-call developers and customer support to manage and troubleshoot issues
• Support the video workflows through an occasional (few days per month) on-call rotation with a team of other engineers
• Help interview and onboard other software engineers in the video and live-streaming space
• Be able to be in an on call rotation to support our production systems if issues arise off hours

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and supporting scalable video pipelines in cloud environments is a huge plus. We use AWS but any cloud/container experience is fine
• Experience creating detailed technical documentation that details how to break down complex projects and technical details for team members of varying expertise
• Comfortable working across multiple technologies, programming languages, and areas of the video stack
• Able to effectively collaborate within your own and other technical teams
• Someone who has experience learning the latest tech in the mobile and live streaming spaces

Benefits

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Paid volunteer opportunities
• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology
• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable
• Learning stipend - $500 annually towards continued development
• Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly
• Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe
• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents
• Family building benefits offered through Progyny
• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life
• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability
• Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard, with an immediate company match
• Generous parental leave
• DICK’S Sporting Goods & their family of brands teammate discount