Senior Software Engineer, Video

August 16

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Helping families elevate the next generation through sports. A part of the DICK’S Sporting Goods family.

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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 Senior Software Engineer to help lead the expansion of our video capabilities. • You will be part of the newly formed video team which owns our video pipeline end to end, evolves our live streaming and post-game video capabilities for users, simplifies the developer experience for product teams that integrate video into our apps, and ensures we have a scalable and resilient platform to handle millions of streams and hundreds of millions of highlight clips annually. • As Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be a hands on engineer helping the team to build and support our video platform. • As a member of the team you are expected to have strong communication skills and collaborate within our team and 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 member of this team, you’ll give input into decisions that impact 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.

Requirements

• Background in video and audio streaming, preferably with a focus on live-streaming of user-generated content. • Understanding of the basics 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 video technologies around mobile broadcast, ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and related systems at scale. • Experience coding in at least one of the languages commonly used in the video space, such as Python/Go/C++/Rust, as well as experience in other higher-level languages such as Node/Typescript, React, or mobile languages like Kotlin or Swift. • 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. • Experience designing/building APIs for a backend system. • Front end development experience in web, iOS (Swift), and/or Android (Kotlin) is a plus but not required. • Experience building and supporting scalable and high-performance video pipelines in cloud environments is a huge plus. We use AWS but any cloud/container experience is fine.

Benefits

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY. • Unlimited vacation policy. • Paid volunteer opportunities. • WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable. • Snack stipend - $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office. • Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA., and coverage for family/dependents. • Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life. • Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability. • Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match. • Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing. • Generous parental leave. • DICK’S Sporting Goods Teammate Discount.