[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer, Video Enablement @GameChanger

Role Description

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 fully-remote Staff Software Engineer/Architect to help lead the expansion of our video capabilities as we form our new Video Engineering team. While we’ve had teams build video functionality, this full-stack, empowered team will be dedicated to video - owning our video pipeline end to end, evolving our live streaming and post-game video capabilities for users, simplifying the developer experience for product teams that are integrating video into our apps, and ensuring we have a scalable and resilient platform to handle millions of streams and hundreds of millions of highlight clips annually.

As Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be a hands-on architect and software engineer leading development efforts within the team, influencing direction, roadmaps, and technical direction. A strong communicator and mentor, you’ll collaborate closely with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager on technical roadmap and strategy, mentor and pair with other developers, and collaborate with other platform and product teams to design and build video-related projects that advance 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 founding member of this new team, you’ll help set the tone and culture, onboard other engineers, and 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.

Check out some of our current video capabilities at https://gc.com/live-video .

Qualifications

• Strong background in video and audio streaming, preferably with a focus on live-streaming of user-generated content.
• Extensive experience architecting and building scalable and high-performance video pipelines in cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of audio and video packaging principles, codecs, and other associated technologies and tools.
• Hands-on software development experience designing and building live and VOD streaming workflows.
• Proficiency reading (preferably coding) in languages commonly used in the video space.
• Experience designing/building/connecting internal APIs/SDKs across the stack.
• Experience mentoring/training/working with other teams through documentation and live sessions.
• Familiarity with mobile video broadcasting of user-generated content.
• Hands-on experience with one or more video players.
• Front end development experience in web, iOS (Swift), and/or Android (Kotlin) required.
• Familiarity with CV concepts, architectures, and/or tools is a plus.
• Familiarity with video advertising systems concepts, architectures, and/or tools is a plus.

Requirements

• Working in your cross-functional team of mobile, web, back-end, and infrastructure engineers, you’ll design, architect, code, and support video features across the video pipeline stack.
• Working closely with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager of the video team, you’ll help influence, communicate, and iterate on the strategic roadmap.
• Collaborate closely with mobile, web, machine learning/computer vision, and platform teams on multi-faceted projects.
• Review and provide feedback on designs and code PRs, pair on architectures, and provide guidance and hands-on help as needed.
• Help to build and connect to internal SDKs, frameworks, and tooling to enable product development teams.
• Help define and build real-time monitoring and measurement systems for critical operational workflows.
• Lead, mentor, 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.

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.
• WFH stipend - $500 annually.
• 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.
• 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.