Senior Frontend Engineer, Dailymotion
Backbone Player
Video streaming service
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Video streaming service
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build the next generation of media platforms designed to inspire millions of people to grow and share a diverse and inclusive vision of the world.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has a collaborative mindset, a demonstrated experience building and delivering high-performance web applications, and a strong taste for finely crafted produc
- Strong proficiency with Git
- Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS (vanilla) and JavaScript (vanilla)
- Strong proficiency in standard web development (how the web platform works outside of any framework or library)
- Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks & state management (ideally React/Preact)
- Experience in performance initiatives like observability, monitoring, code optimization, runtime and bundle analysis
- Experience with build tools (Webpack, Rollup, esbuild...)
- Experience with unit tests tools (Jasmine, Jest, Vitest...)
- Professional experience building advanced reactive web applications using modern tooling
- Professional experience with development best practices (unit tests, functional tests, CI, code reviews, documentation, agile processes)
- Strong teamwork mindset (work with the team and for the team)
- Excellent problem-solving analytical skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Comfortable speaking in English
Desirable
- Experience with standard HTML5 video API
- Experience with browser-based testing frameworks (Cypress, Playwright)
- Experience with adaptive streaming format such as HLS or MPEG-DASH (ideally https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js as Dailymotion Player relies on it)
What the job involves
- As a Senior Frontend Engineer in the Backbone Player team, you'll work on the company's flagship product, the HTML video player
- Our video player is used by more than 300 million users every month, directly on our platform and on high-traffic websites using our technology
- Reporting to the VP Engineering you will join the Player Perf team, and work with a diverse group of people from around the world, all of them committed in improving our video player – in a caring, agile and highly-technical environment
- You will collaborate with experienced engineers, infrastructure, devops, product managers, designers and data analysts across the company, to deliver features to our users and publishers, with a focus on video streaming experience
- Contribute to the team effort to develop new features, fix bugs and deliver a state of the art user experience to a variety of browsers and devices (mobiles, tablets, desktops)
- Maintain existing codebase, with a focus on the HTML video player, and contribute to keep it up to date with current technology and best practices (tests, coding guidelines, continuous deployment)
- Write and maintain technical specifications and technical documentation about the codebase
- Take part in a collaborative culture that encourages every member of our team to bring their added value
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to growth of the team
Application process
- Start Date: depending on your availabilities
Our take
In many ways, it's difficult to talk about Dailymotion without talking about YouTube, its most obvious competitor. And it is indeed worth noting that the company underwent a major change in recent years to build its own programmatic platform partially to compete more directly with its famous American counterpart.
However, the truth is the nature of modern content consumption means that Dailymotion need not obsess over YouTube’s user base. There’s enough of an audience - at least 4 billion people by some estimates - for both video-streaming giants to co-exist.
That means Dailymotion has been able to experiment with different strategies. For example, the platform indisputably has better relationships than YouTube with its corporate partners, often engaging in bespoke product development to facilitate deeper relationships.
Perhaps the biggest competitive threat for Dailymotion will be not from its rival video-streaming platform, but from entirely new forms of internet-based entertainment. Short-form video content from platforms like TikTok is already siphoning away the younger cohort of users from longer-format video providers, a trend Dailymotion will need to address in the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2009
$25m
SERIES C
Aug 2007
$34m
SERIES B
Total funding: $68.5m
Company benefits
- 🏡Hybrid Work Framework (4 types of remote work: Full office /Flex office (1/2 days remote) / Flex remote (1/2 days at the office) / Full remote + ability to work 3 months abroad)
- 💰International Group Savings Plan offered through the Vivendi Group
- 🍼8 weeks paid Paternity leave or Co-parental leave
- 🕶️Excellent Employee Culture (Company Events / Trainings / Parties / All hands …)
- 🚀Career development support (training / career check-in with HR / internal mobility / compensation cycle / 360 quarter feedback review …)
- 🏥Company-paid Health Insurance and Personal Services Vouchers (CESU)
- 🚆Commuter benefit coverage - Public Transport and Bike refund
- ⛱️Paid Time off – RTT and Saving time plan (CET)
- ✅Meal Vouchers
- 🎡Workers representatives committee(sport membership/cinemas vouchers/gift vouchers/discount)
Company HQ
Plaine-Monceau, Paris, France
Leadership
Maxime Saada
(CEO, not founder)Became the CEO of Dailymotion in 2015. They have also worked at CANAL+ since 2004, rising through the ranks, they are now the CEO. Prior to this, they worked as an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company.
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