πUnited Kingdom, Spain
Staff Software Engineer
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Wistia
πRemote - United States
Summary
Join Wistia's Discover team as a talented engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of core platform features, including content search, library interface, and account management tools. You will solve customer problems, drive backend and frontend development, provide expert input on product design, and ensure system high availability. This role requires expertise in web application languages and frameworks, experience with background processing systems, and strong collaboration skills. The ideal candidate will also possess expertise in search technologies and GraphQL. Wistia offers a competitive compensation package, comprehensive benefits, flexible working hours, and a remote-first culture.
Requirements
- You have expertise in a language and framework that powers web applications (ideally Ruby on Rails)
- Youβve built products with React and feel comfortable working in a large frontend application
- You have experience with various background processing and queuing systems (e.g. Sidekiq, NSQ)
- You collaborate well and build strong partnerships with your product and design teammates. Youβre also a great communicator and can easily apply your skills in different settings (e.g. meetings, demos, code reviews, documentation)
- You know how to ship iteratively and help manage releases. Youβre a natural in the relevant areas of feature flagging, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, observability, alerting, etc
- You are comfortable participating in on-call rotations and incident response processes
Responsibilities
- Solve customer problems in a pragmatic way by balancing technical considerations with product and business goals
- Drive backend and frontend development for major features. Youβll have the opportunity to shape projects from an early stage and lead them throughout the entire lifecycle
- Give expert input into the product and design process for the solutions your team develops
- Ensure that our systems are highly availability through proactive monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting to minimize downtime and service interruptions
- Contribute to our product quality efforts through a comprehensive approach (e.g. from automated testing to incident response)
- Lend your expertise to engineering team members to help improve their work
- Develop deep expertise in video and media products, search technologies, and content management
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in search technologies, especially Algolia
- Hands-on experience with GraphQL
- Experience solving data synchronization problems
- Specialized skills and knowledge in video or media products
Benefits
- A competitive compensation package that includes internal equity stock options
- 401k with 3% company contribution, regardless of whether you contribute (Roth 401k available)
- Fully paid healthcare, dental, and vision insurance (family plans included)
- Pre-Tax FSA and Dependent Care Account
- Flexible working hours β work at the times when you operate best, or set aside time for child and/or elderly care responsibilities during traditional βoffice hoursβ
- 16 weeks paid parental leave for all new and expecting parents
- Flexible PTO (pretty common for people to take 4+ weeks off throughout the year)
- Remote-first culture (work from anywhere in the U.S.)
- Annual professional development stipend (courses, conferences, and more)
- New hire bonus to enhance your home office set up
- Pet insurance discount
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