GameChanger
youth sports
StaffSoftwareEngineer,VideoEnablement
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“Staff Software Engineer, Video Enablement at GameChanger. Skills: Video Enablement, Video Pipeline, Live Streaming, VOD, Architecture, Scalability, Resilience. design, architect, code, and support video features across the video pipeline stack, including live video ingestion, transcoding, integration, storage, and playback/consumption at scale. influence, communicate, and iterate on the strategic roadmap for the technology powering our video features”
What You'll Achieve.
lead the expansion of our video capabilities; owning our video pipeline end to end; ensuring we have a scalable and resilient platform to handle millions of streams and hundreds of millions of highlight clips annually; advance our streaming capabilities; handle our increasing scale; improve our users’ experience with video; drive improved user experiences and business outcomes
Industry & Context.
solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today; manage and troubleshoot issues
on-call rotation (few days per month), Work remotely throughout the US*, unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
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, understanding of audio and video packaging principles, codecs, and other associated technologies and tools, including their relative tradeoffs, such as MPEG Video, MPEG-2 TS, HLS, DASH, H. 264 AVC/H. 265 HEVC/VP9/AV1/VVC, RTMP/enhanced RTMP/SRT, FFMPEG, DRM, etc., Hands-on software development experience designing and building live and VOD streaming workflows and exposure to a wide breadth of video technologies around mobile broadcast, ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and related systems at scale, Proficiency reading (preferably coding) in languages commonly used in the video space, such as c#/golang/C++/Rust/Python, as well as experience in other higher-level languages such as Node/Typescript, React, or mobile languages like Kotlin or Swift, Experience designinguilding/connecting internal APIs/SDKs across the stack (backend to front end) to enable rapid feature development, Experience mentoring/training/working with other teams through documentation and live sessions on the best way to accomplish building features utilizing the system we build/own, Familiarity with mobile video broadcasting of user-generated content and the challenges of optimizing streaming quality and reliability across a variety of devices and network conditions, Hands-on experience with one or more video players, Front end development experience in web, iOS (Swift), and/or Android (Kotlin) required, An excellent communicator and writer capable of breaking down complex projects and technical details for stakeholders of varying expertise, Proven track record of effective technical leadership in software engineering roles in the video streaming space, Comfortable working across multiple technologies, programming languages, and areas of the video stack, Able to foster collaboration and teamwork within technical teams, Someone who loves learning the latest tech in the mobile and live streaming spaces, and loves teaching it to other engineers and product managers
Nice to Have
Familiarity with CV concepts, architectures, and/or tools is a plus, Familiarity with video advertising systems concepts, architectures, and/or tools is a plus, Willingness to learn/work in front end areas you are not familiar with is a huge plus
What You'll Do.
and support video features across the video pipeline stack
including live video ingestion
and playback/consumption at scale
and iterate on the strategic roadmap for the technology powering our video features
design and build video-related projects that advance our streaming capabilities
handle our increasing scale
and improve our users’ experience with video
build and connect to internal SDKs
and tooling to enable product development teams to easily integrate video into the product at various stages of the video pipeline
define and build real-time monitoring and measurement systems for critical operational workflows in the video pipeline
support the video workflows through an occasional (few days per month) on-call rotation
and onboard other software engineers in the video and live-streaming space
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Working in your cross-functional team of mobile, web, back-end, and infrastructure engineers; Working closely with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager of the video team; 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 to easily integrate video into the product; collaborate with other platform and product teams to design and build video-related projects; foster collaboration and teamwork within technical teams
Communication Scope
excellent communicator and writer capable of breaking down complex projects and technical details for stakeholders of varying expertise; communicate and iterate on the strategic roadmap
Process & Methodology
influencing direction, roadmaps, and technical direction, technical roadmap and strategy
Full Job Description
About GameChanger: We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports. So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today. 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 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 t
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