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Senior Software Engineer - Video 🔥


About Us

Launched in 2011, Twitch is a global community that comes together each day to create multiplayer entertainment: unique, live, unpredictable experiences created by the interactions of millions. We bring the joy of co-op to everything, from casual gaming to world-class esports to anime marathons, music, and art streams. Twitch also hosts TwitchCon, where we bring everyone together to celebrate, learn, and grow their personal interests and passions. We’re always live at Twitch. Stay up to date on all things Twitch on LinkedIn, Twitter and on our Blog.

About the Role Twitch is building the future of interactive entertainment, and video is at the very core of that vision. Twitch’s Video Playback Engineering team is looking for experienced iOS Mobile engineers to help build a cross-platform video playback solution that will support web, mobile, and other platforms. As a senior iOS engineer in the Video Playback Team, you will be helping shape the future of the Twitch playback experience used by millions of users across various web browsers, mobile devices, gaming consoles, and more.   If you are passionate about iOS platform and media, streaming, or obsessed about performance and want to participate in creating the best video playback system out there, then this position is for you. You will work with an extremely talented and accomplished team in the video space and will be building an iOS SDK that scales to the highest live video traffic currently.    You Will:
  • Your primary responsibility would be to develop an iOS player SDK.
  • Work with other engineering teams and internal stakeholders/customers to design APIs that define our next generation initiative.
  • Collaborate with backend video teams like ingest, transcode, replication, and mapping teams to improve the video playback experience
  • Add reliable cross-platform unit, integration, and e2e tests
  • Write and contribute to technical documents like project proposals and architecture overviews
  • Keep abreast of current technologies and recent developments in iOS and AV Media Foundation.
You Have:
  • 7+ years of professional software development or equivalent expertise
  • Development experience on iOS
  • Strong proficiency with Objective-C, Swift, and the iOS development ecosystem
  • Experience with audio/video or graphics on iOS
  • Strong background in modern C++
  • Experience with multithreaded programming, object oriented design, and real time considerations
  • Good communication skills and able to clearly articulate complex problems and solutions
Bonus Points:
  • Familiarity with video streaming technologies (HLS, DASH) or codecs such as H.264
  • Familiarity with networking protocols, either with WebRTC, RTP, SRT, RIST or RTMP
  • Experience building cross-platform libraries/SDKs and shipping successful software products
  • Experience with network protocols 
Perks
  • Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Maternity & Parental Leave
  • Flexible PTO
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Amazon Employee Discount
  • Monthly Contribution & Discounts for Wellness Related Activities & Programs (e.g., gym memberships, off-site massages, etc.)
  • Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Served Daily
  • Free Snacks & Beverages 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Twitch. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

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