Staff Backend Engineer Video Enablement
Staff Backend Engineer Video Enablement
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$ 200000 - 240000
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Job Description
About GameChanger:
We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports 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 were looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to help lead the expansion of our video capabilities as we form our new Video Engineering team. While weve had teams build video functionality this fullstack empowered team will be dedicated to video managing our video pipeline end to end evolving our live streaming and postgame 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 Backend Engineer youll be a handson architect and software engineer leading development efforts within the team influencing direction roadmaps and technical direction. Youll collaborate with the teams Engineering Manager and Product Manager on technical strategy mentor and pair with other developers and collaborate with other platform and product teams to develop videorelated projects that grow 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 founding member of this new team youll help set the tone and culture onboard other engineers and influence the entire video stack: mobile broadcast and playback frameworks backend ingest/transcoding/playback infrastructure VoD storage and playback and hooks for other workflows such as automatic highlight clipping advertising livestream overlays and AI/Computer Vision workflows. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of our Video team.
Check out some of our current video capabilities at https://gc/livevideo
What Youll Do:
Working in your team of mobile web backend and infrastructure engineers youll architect code and support video features across the video pipeline stack including live video ingestion transcoding integration storage and playback/usage at scale.
Working with the teams Engineering Manager and Product Manager youll help refine the strategic roadmap for the technology powering our video features as we continue to grow and add new capabilities.
Collaborate with mobile web machine learning/computer vision and platform teams on multifaceted projects across the entire video processing system to lead improved user experiences and outcomes.
Review and provide feedback on designs and code PRs pair on architectures and provide guidance and handson help.
Help to build and connect to internal SDKs frameworks and tooling to allow product development teams to easily integrate video into the product at different stages of the video pipeline.
Help build realtime monitoring and measurement systems for critical operational workflows in the video pipeline including tools for oncall developers and customer support to manage and troubleshoot issues.
Lead mentor interview and onboard other software engineers in the video and livestreaming space.
Be able to be in an on call rotation to support our production systems if issues arise off hours.
What Youll Bring:
Background in video and audio streaming with a focus on livestreaming of usergenerated content.
5 years of experience building scalable video pipelines in cloud environments (We use AWS but any cloud/container experience is fine).
Experience with audio and video packaging principles codecs and other associated tools including their relative tradeoffs such as MPEG Video MPEG2 TS HLS DASH H.264 AVC H.265 HEVC VP9 AV1 VVC RTMP/enhanced RTMP SRT FFMPEG and DRM.
Handson software development experience designing and building live and video on demand streaming workflows and exposure to many video technologies around mobile broadcast ingest transcoding storage playback and related systems at scale.
Proficiency reading and coding in at least one of the languages commonly used in the video space such as c#/golang/C/Rust/Python and experience in other higherlevel languages such as Node/TypeScript React or mobile languages like Kotlin or Swift.
Experience designing/building/connecting internal APIs/SDKs across the stack (backend to front end) to ensure rapid feature development.
Experience mentoring and working with other teams through documentation and live sessions on the best way to accomplish building features using the system we build/own.
Familiarity with mobile video broadcasting of usergenerated content and the challenges of optimizing streaming quality and reliability across a variety of devices and network conditions.
Handson experience with one or more video players.
Front end development experience in web iOS (Swift) or Android (Kotlin) required.
Who You Are:
Experience creating detailed technical documentation that details how to break down complex projects and technical details for team members of varying expertise.
Technical leadership experience in software engineering roles in the video streaming space.
Comfortable working across multiple technologies programming languages and areas of the video stack.
Foster collaboration 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.
Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins GitLab etc.
Perks:
Work remotely throughout the US* or from our wellfurnished modern office in Manhattan NY.
Unlimited vacation policy.
Paid volunteer opportunities.
Technology stipend $4000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology
WFH stipend $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.
Learning stipend $500 annually towards continued development
Monthly physical mental wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly
Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe
Full health benefits medical dental vision prescription FSA HRA HSA and coverage for family/dependents.
Retirement savings Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard with an immediate company match.
Life insurance basic life supplemental life and dependent life.
Disability leave shortterm disability and longterm disability.
Company paid parental leave up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for nonbirthing parents.
Family building benefits offered through Progyny.
DICKS Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.
The target salary range for this position is between $200000 and $240000. This is part of a total compensation package that includes incentive equity and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors including experience internal pay equity and other relevant business considerations. We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equal across the board.
* DICKS Sporting Goods has companywide practices to monitor and protect the company from significant compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place we are unable to hire in AK DE HI IA LA MS MT OK and SC.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: All official recruitment communications from GameChanger will come from an email address ending in @gc or If you receive communication from any other domain please be cautious as it is likely fraudulent.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
