Software Engineer (Video Player)

The Role - Software Engineer (Video Player). You’ll be responsible for building, maintaining, and hardening our video player, with a strong focus on playback performance, rendering, integrations, and overall viewer experience. You’ll also contribute to broadcast augmentation features and the development tools used by our content team. Over time, there will be opportunities to expand your impact into our video processing pipeline and our content and augmentation engines. What you will use day to day: You should expect to work in JavaScript and Rust almost every day, with some tasks needing other languages. The balance shifts by task (browser and player code, transcoder and augmentation-related tooling, API). You will predominantly work around video and augmentation.

Responsibilities

Building, maintaining, and hardening our video player, with a strong focus on playback performance, rendering, integrations, and overall viewer experience; Contributing to broadcast augmentation features and the development tools used by our content team; Opportunities to expand impact into video processing pipeline and content and augmentation engines

Requirements

Strong experience in lower-level software development; Ability to design, build, and maintain reliable, low-latency systems; Comfortable working across complex, distributed architectures

Nice to have

Proven ability to code in different languages like Java, Kotlin, Rust, Typescript, etc.; Proven ability to lead features or subsystems from ambiguous requirements through to production; Strong collaboration skills, including code reviews, pairing, and clear technical communication; Experience with video, ideally in the browser (for example streaming, timing, latency, encrypted playback); Experience with graphics API (e.g. OpenGL, WebGL, Vulkan) or game-engines (e.g. Unity, Unreal, Godot), ideally in the browser

Benefits

Competitive salary and range of benefits; Support for employee wellbeing; Opportunities to grow skills, experience and career; Inclusive working environment