[Hiring] Video & Streaming Engineer @Solvd

Role Description

We are looking for a Video & Streaming Engineer to join a greenfield digital news platform build for a major international news brand. Video is not a feature here — it is the product. The platform is built around an always-on livestream, automated broadcast clip ingestion, and a player architecture that needs to perform reliably under the extreme traffic conditions of breaking-news events.

You'll own the video and streaming layer end-to-end:

• Platform integration
• Adaptive playback
• Livestream workflows
• Newsroom clipping tools
• Advertising
• Analytics
• Resilience testing ahead of launch

What you'll do:

• Own video, livestream, and player technical implementation across the platform.
• Integrate the selected video platform and player with the broader content and delivery architecture.
• Implement adaptive bitrate streaming and device-aware playback across web and mobile environments.
• Support livestream and breaking-news streaming workflows — including failover and resilience requirements.
• Implement clipping and newsroom video-processing capabilities for broadcast clip ingestion and editorial use.
• Integrate captions, subtitles, thumbnails, and poster frames.
• Support rights management, availability-window controls, and geoblocking requirements.
• Integrate video advertising and analytics capabilities.
• Implement playback telemetry, error handling, and fallback logic.
• Support load testing, resilience validation, and major-event readiness testing ahead of launch.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience integrating and configuring enterprise video platforms — Brightcove, JW Player, Mux, THEOplayer, or similar.
• Strong understanding of adaptive bitrate streaming — HLS, DASH — and device-aware playback implementation.
• Experience implementing livestream workflows in a production environment.
• Familiarity with video processing concepts — clipping, transcoding, thumbnail generation, caption and subtitle integration.
• Experience integrating video advertising — VAST, VPAID, or similar — and video analytics.
• Ability to implement playback telemetry, error detection, and fallback handling.
• Experience supporting performance and resilience testing for high-traffic video delivery scenarios.
• Strong collaboration skills — able to work across CMS, frontend, and infrastructure teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering video infrastructure for news, media, or broadcast organizations.
• Familiarity with rights management, availability windows, and geoblocking implementation.
• Experience with CDN configuration for video delivery at scale.
• Background working on platforms designed for major-event traffic spikes.
• Familiarity with DRM implementation — Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady.
• Experience with poster frame, chapter marker, and structured metadata workflows for editorial video.

Benefits

• Shape real-world AI-driven projects across key industries, working with clients from startup innovation to enterprise transformation.
• Be part of a global team with equal opportunities for collaboration across continents and cultures.
• Thrive in an inclusive environment that prioritizes continuous learning, innovation, and ethical AI standards.

Company Description

Solvd Inc. is a rapidly growing AI-native consulting and technology services firm delivering enterprise transformation across cloud, data, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. We work with industry-leading organizations to design, build, and operationalize technology solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

Following the acquisition of Tooploox, a premier AI and product development company, Solvd now offers true end-to-end delivery — from strategic advisory and solution design to custom AI development and enterprise-scale implementation. Our capability centers combine deep technical expertise, proven delivery methodologies, and sector-specific knowledge to address complex business challenges quickly and effectively.