iOS Engineer, Twitch
$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
- BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
- 3+ years of industry iOS development experience using Swift
- Experience communicating complicated technical problems to both technical and business audiences
- Experience working with iOS specific development tools, such as XCode, SwiftUI, CocoaPods, Firebase, or Swift Package Manager
- Experience leading large scale engineering projects with multiple stakeholders
Desirable
- Experience with AWS Cloud Development Kit, CloudFormation, or Terraform or equivalent technologies
- Experience with other object oriented programming languages, such as C#, C++ or Python
- Fluency in some subset of UI design, data modeling, algorithms, and database schema design
- Experience mentoring and growing engineers
- Familiarity with Twitch, either as a viewer or creator (or both!)
What the job involves
- Mobile Core is the metaphorical engine of Mobile at Twitch. We are the backbone of every feature and every release going out to our beloved customers
- Our team owns the underlying infrastructure within the apps, the infrastructure building the apps, and the core features like video playback. Every mobile team at Twitch depends on what we build and how we build it
- As an iOS Engineer on Mobile Core, you will focus on developer velocity, highly performant user experiences and insisting on the highest standards for app quality and performance
- You will identify and lead complex projects with large scale influence and collaborate with engineers and partners across the company. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager for Mobile Core iOS
- Build delightful frameworks, drive their adoption amongst internal developers and measure their impact
- Champion prioritization of projects alongside your engineering leadership and product managers
- Insist on the highest standards for mobile development at Twitch by defining best practices and policies
- Identify opportunities across the mobile development stack to boost developer productivity and happiness
- Mentor and cultivate the growth of the engineers around you
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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