Software Engineer, Twitch
$127.1-185k
Gaming-focused livestream platform
Posted today
Gaming-focused livestream platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$127.1-185k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower live communities on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- Experience developing software in a professional environment
- Prior experience building consumer-facing products at scale
- Proficient coding skills in modern languages and frameworks such as Go, React, Kotlin, Swift, and Objective-C
- Proven ability to think through and deliver quality user experiences
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Experience with languages and frameworks used at Twitch, including React, TypeScript, and Go
- Experience building software and services using AWS technologies such as ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions
- Familiarity with Twitch, gaming, and/or streaming on Twitch
What the job involves
- The Community Growth organization drives measurable audience growth, engagement, and revenue for streamers while delivering exceptional experiences for viewers. Its mission is to make Twitch a place viewers return to daily, with a continuous, meaningful relationship with their favorite creator that is easy to re-enter when life gets busy
- The teams build consumer-facing features across web and mobile that let viewers engage with their favorite creators, including Channel Points, Polls, Predictions, Watch Streaks, Raids, and the Creator Dashboard. This is a full-stack role, developing for web and mobile clients, creating backend services, and maintaining those systems
- Work with product managers, designers, technical leads, and other engineers to design, develop, launch, and operate interactive experiences and products
- Work backwards from customer problems to drive business impact
- Maintain and improve existing backend services
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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