Vidyard is hiring a
Senior Software Developer

Summary

Vidyard is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join their Nova Team, focusing on AI video creation capabilities. The role involves working with a cross-functional team, requires experience in software engineering, AWS services, and familiarity with the company's tech stack. The position offers competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, flexible hours, wellness allowance, mental health coverage, growth opportunities, parental leave top-up, paid volunteer hours, employee resource groups, RRSP match, stock options, flexible holiday program, home office stipend, and the flexibility to work remotely or in-person.

Requirements

• Solid background in software engineering with 6+ years of experience shipping user-facing, scalable web products
• Proven ability to work across the software stack as a generalist while bringing experience to either front-end or back-end development
• Strong documentation skills with a commitment to maintaining clear and comprehensive technical documentation
• Proficiency with AWS services, including S3, Lambda, SQS, and other related technologies
• A history of success delivering on different initiatives in an agile, iterative environment
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• The desire to drive improvements to our quality, reliability, and performance standards
• Lean thinking and an experimental, metrics-driven mindset
• A high tolerance for ambiguity and a recognition that action is sometimes the best path to discovery

Responsibilities

Contribute to the development and enhancement of AI video creation capabilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with video effects and ffmpeg are a plus
• Familiarity with AI and machine learning technologies is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Comprehensive, flexible benefits on day one
• Wellness allowance to spend on what’s important to you
• Flexible hours + unlimited vacation + programs to support travel while working, enabling you to live your best life
• Access to Inkblot, a digital mental health platform + $1,500/person/year for mental health coverage
• Allowance to support your ongoing growth and development
• Parental leave top-up
• Paid volunteer hours
• Employee resource groups to empower and drive change at Vidyard and in our communities
• RRSP match
• Stock options
• Flexible holiday program
• Home office stipend
• Flexibility to work in the place that brings out your best: whether you thrive in the comfort of your home office, or are local to, and prefer the energy of our collaboration space in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, there is flexibility for all