Software Engineering Manager, Brightcove
Leading cloud-based online video platform
Job no longer available
Leading cloud-based online video platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To break through to audiences everywhere by offering powerful video solutions for marketing, enterprise communications, and more.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering and architecture experience
- 2+ years of software engineering people management experience
- Video streaming experience strongly preferred
- Experience with AWS strongly preferred, including Elasticache, DynamoDB, CloudFront, RDS, Athena and Kubernetes
- Familiar with CDNs and high availability services
- Very collaborative within and across teams with a positive attitude and high accountability
- Passion for coaching and developing others, providing continuous feedback and recognizing positive behaviors and achievements along the way
- Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal
- Ability to present highly technical topics in a way that is digestible and easy to understand; ability to influence and engage others
- Understand video content delivery, including CDN operations, codecs, and digital rights management and stay abreast of industry trends
- Understanding of the full software delivery lifecycle, from conceptualization through delivery and all steps in between
- Experience with agile methodologies
- Understanding of building, delivering and operating internet scale, distributed, high availability systems
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and market conditions
What the job involves
- We are seeking a dynamic, influential and hands-on technical leader to run our Video-on-Demand team, also known as the Delivery Team. Brightcove Delivery provides an unmatched VOD streaming experience for any scale — from corporate training videos to streaming services around the globe
- Lead, inspire and motivate a UK-based team of 4-6 back-end software engineers focused on video content delivery
- Lead and deliver key engineering initiatives while balancing the needs for operating and maintaining existing systems
- Manage the COGS for the services while maintaining high quality of service
- Hire and mentor world-class engineers, continuously coaching and motivating them to reach their greatest potential
- Identify and implement development process and methodology improvements to increase the quality of work products and how work is getting done
- Work with Product Management to contribute to the strategic direction of the products and roadmaps. Question priorities provided and push for engineering-led initiatives for sustaining engineering, security, tech debt and innovation
- Lead technical discussions and provide input on designs, focusing on how strategic decisions might influence design long-term
- Stay abreast of industry trends in video content delivery
Our take
Brightcove enables content creators to gain additional revenue from their online video products through new distribution and analytics opportunities. Its services generate a cash flow by allowing advertisers to purchase sponsorship bumpers and watermarks. But that's just the start; the firm is also drawing in customers as a cutting-edge analytics platform.
The company now operates in more than 60 countries and is developing new strategies that enhance current offerings and create opportunities to expand existing businesses. The latter includes the 2023-launched Brightcove Communication Studios, a platform that helps teams better communicate and engage with internal stakeholders as well as an Ad Monetisation service for client companies.
Brightcove now works with customers across a range of sectors and industries, including BBC, Adobe, Ford, Forbes, and Premier League and continues to spoil its customers with new features and incentives.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2010
$12m
SERIES D
May 2008
$4m
SERIES D
Total funding: $157.2m
Company benefits
- Nourishment: Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchens around the globe, you’ll never go hungry here!
- Financial Wellness: Plan for the future with our competitive compensation packages, 401K matching, and recognition awards.
- Employee Experience: It’s not all about work. From poker games to summer happy hours (virtual and in-person), and epic Halloween parties—we bring the fun.
- Learning & Development: You’ll solve challenging problems daily here. And to help you do that we’ve got tuition reimbursement programs, mentoring partnerships, and regular meetups like our Women in Technology initiative.
- Giving Back: We’re all about making an impact on local communities, so we encourage employees to take volunteer time off and match charitable donations up to $100.
Company HQ
Fort Point Channel Landmark District, Boston, MA
Leadership
Marc DeBevoise
(CEO)Experienced Executive with over 15 years in senior roles. They are currently an Executive Producer at Horizon: An American Saga, an Advisory Board Member at Antenna, and a Board President at The Door.
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