About the position
GameChanger users already live stream and watch millions of hours of youth sporting events and clips using the GameChanger app, and we're looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to help lead the expansion of our video capabilities. You will be part of the newly formed video team which owns our video pipeline end to end, evolves our live streaming and post-game video capabilities for users, simplifies the developer experience for product teams that integrate video into our apps, and ensures we have a scalable and resilient platform to handle millions of streams and hundreds of millions of highlight clips annually. As a Senior Full Stack Senior Software Engineer, you'll be a hands-on engineer helping the team to build and support our video platform. You will collaborate within our team and other platform and product teams to develop video-related projects that grow our streaming capabilities, handle our increasing scale, and improve our users' experience with video to ensure that fans can always capture and watch the moments that matter to them most. As a member of this team, you'll give input into decisions that influence the entire video stack: mobile broadcast and playback frameworks, back-end ingest/transcoding/playback infrastructure, VoD storage and playback, and hooks for other workflows such as automatic highlight clipping, advertising, live-stream overlays, and AI/Computer Vision workflows. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of our Video team.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- Help build real-time monitoring and measurement systems for critical operational workflows in the video pipeline.
- Support the video workflows through an occasional on-call rotation with a team of other engineers.
- Help interview and onboard other software engineers in the video and live-streaming space.
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.
- Hands-on software development experience designing and building live and video on demand streaming workflows.
- 5+ years of experience reading (preferably coding) in languages commonly used in the video space, such as c#/golang/C++/Rust/Python.
- Familiarity with mobile video broadcasting of user-generated content and the challenges of optimizing streaming quality and reliability.
- Hands-on experience with one or more video players.
- Experience designing/building/connecting internal APIs/SDKs across the stack.
- Willingness to mentor/train/work with other teams through documentation and live sessions.
- Front end development experience in web, iOS (Swift), or Android (Kotlin) required.
- Experience building and supporting scalable video pipelines in cloud environments is a huge plus.
- Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)
Nice-to-haves
- Experience creating detailed technical documentation.
- Comfortable working across multiple technologies, programming languages, and areas of the video stack.
- Able to effectively collaborate within your own and other technical teams.
- 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.
- WFH stipend - $500 annually.
- Learning stipend - $500 annually.
- 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.
- Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans with an immediate company match.
- Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
- Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.
- Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Family building benefits offered through Progyny.
- DICK'S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.
