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Sr. Backend Engineer, VHX
Entertainment & Media Industry Company
New York, NY, United States
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As a VHX backend engineer at Company, you’ll do a bit of everything. Just a few examples include: handling payments across multiple platforms, optimizing video delivery and transcoding, iterating on our API to serve a growing number of app platforms. Are you passionate about solving complex and interesting problems in the video technology space? Are you obsessed with scale, performance, and building beautiful products? Do you seek a casual workplace that’s serious about making great products and a healthy work/life balance? If so, we’re looking for you!
In this role, you will:
• Evolve and scale application architecture and services
• Implement live video and advertising into streaming pipeline and players
• Improve metrics, monitoring, and alerts for all critical services
• Improve caching and performance across applications and CDN (we use Fastly)
• Write well-tested, performant, and maintainable code
• Help move applications to a service oriented architecture
• Help mentor and grow engineers
What we’re expecting:
• Proficient in Ruby
• Experience with Company website and/or React
• Experience with AWS Lambda
• Strong Dev Ops experience is a plus. We are actively moving services from Heroku to AWS
• Proactive, good communicator, and organized
• You have developed libraries or applications and want to show them to us
• Proven track record of building production-ready web applications
• Appreciation for the peace of mind that comes with well-tested, peer-reviewed, and documented code
• You take ownership and monitor the things you architect
• Comfort with both SQL and an ORM, and have exposure to a variety of database technologies
• Great written and verbal communication
• You are self-directed and able to manage your time effectively to meet deadlines
• You are cool as a cucumber under pressure
Bonus points:
• Experience with video delivery or transcoding
• Experience with payment platforms
• Experience with managing infrastructure on AWS
About Company & the VHX team:
Company is building the largest open video platform in the world without interruptive advertising. The company is in an exciting new phase of growth with three core lines of business: Creator Platform (premium video hosting and creator tools), OTT Services (VHX), and Entertainment (the consumer-facing video marketplace). Company, via its VHX platform, provides an end-to-end technology solution for individual creators, niche programmers and major media partners building and distributing premium over-the-top (OTT) video channels (think Netflix in-a-box!). We work very closely with individual creators all the way up to enterprise sellers. With over one hundred subscription channels with over 40 apps on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Android, and Roku, VHX focuses on the core technology while our sellers focus on what they do best: making content. We believe we can build a platform that is powerful and customizable enough to serve as the backbone to all premium video networks across the globe.
About the VHX Engineering team:
We’re an agile, test-driven team that works in two-week sprints. Some of our challenges and opportunities include: building robust, cross-platform APIs to power next generation video networks, building a better-than-Netflix customer video experience, expanding to more platforms and devices, and scaling out our service-oriented architecture. In our spare time, we focus on code pairing, three day hackathons, opportunities to build new features that push the product forward, dev talks, inclusion on product roadmap decisions, and drink too much seltzer.