Software Engineer, Twitch
Community
$129.3-223.6k
Gaming-focused livestream platform
Job no longer available
Gaming-focused livestream platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$129.3-223.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower live communities on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- The Community Collaborations team is looking for a full-stack engineer who is passionate about building and enhancing products for creators
- A degree in Computer Science, a related Engineering discipline, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of professional software development or equivalent
- Experience working in distributed and highly available systems
- Experience with software architecture fundamentals such as Async programming, object-oriented design, abstractions, software design and multiple testing methodologies
Desirable
- Experience working in a service-oriented or microservice architecture using Go
- Experience working with AWS or similar cloud platform services configuring infrastructure with code
- Experience with GraphQL
- Experience as a streamer or content creator
What the job involves
- As a software engineer on the team, you will create and maintain features within the Collaboration platform and products suite. You will report to the EngineeringManager within the Community Discovery and Engagement organization and join a team of passionate individuals to build products that solve and improve the lives of Twitch creators across the platform!
- Work on a team to build high-quality Twitch products which improves collaboration across Twitch
- Implement features in both the Twitch back and frontend tech stacks
- Develop new services using AWS to meet the needs of our products
- Contribute to architectural, design, and process discussions
- Mentor and grow peers
- Participate in the team's oncall rotation
Our take
Twitch is the world's leading video platform for gamers, allowing users to livestream gaming sessions and curate a dedicated community for their content. By dedicating the platform to gaming alone, it has amassed a loyal following of fans, and been able to launch its Partner Program where streamers can monetize their livestreams, incorporate corporate partnerships, and even attend TwitchCon, a convention where dedicated gamers can socialize.
Twitch's acquisition by Amazon in 2014 saw its viewers double in a year, bringing the platform to a wider audience. However, with YouTube streaming popularity on the rise, it has big competition to contend with, as some popular streamers prefer going live on the video giant. Interestingly, a recent move by the platform was to enable its partner streamers to make live content on other platforms - previously inhibited by its exclusivity clause - which may combat the possibility of losing streamers permanently to YouTube.
In 2022, Twitch had to contend with backlash for its proposal to cut creator income by reducing their cut of subscription earnings. However, with the plan only affecting a minute number of creators, the controversy appears to have died down. Needless to say, Twitch is for now entirely comfortable in the market - with possible plans to extend past gaming bringing the chance to generate more popularity yet.
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Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2013
$20m
SERIES C
Sep 2012
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $43.2m
Company HQ
Belden Place, San Francisco, CA
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