Senior Frontend Engineer, Vimeo
Content & Media
$122.4-187k
All-in-one video experience platform
Open for applications
All-in-one video experience platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$122.4-187k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Vimeo's mission is to empower video creators to tell exceptional stories, and connect with their audiences and communities.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5+ years of experience shipping high-impact, well-factored features in React, or other frontend frameworks
- You’re an expert in modern web development concepts and best practices
- You have a strong understanding of polished, high-caliber web experiences (and an intuition for how they should be built), as well as a solid grasp of web accessibility standards and design system principles
- You have a “get to the bottom of it” attitude; you’re comfortable with ambiguity and willing—excited, even!—to dig into problems that don’t have straightforward solutions
- You prioritize shipping user value and focus on making an impact for users
- You always strive to write high-quality code and automated tests, and you care about the details
- You communicate well verbally and in writing, across different kinds of audiences
- You’re an inveterate learner, highly curious, unafraid to jump out of the plane and build your parachute on the way down (metaphorically speaking)
What the job involves
- We are making a substantial investment in the Vimeo Media product and its engineering teams in order to better support Content and Media customers, who range from independent creators to large organizations
- This high-stakes effort is a multi-year undertaking that will modernize, simplify, and expand the capabilities of our product. This is the biggest upgrade to the product we have made in years
- As a part of this new initiative, we are building out a brand new team that will be tasked with integrating our existing (Rails) backend stack with a brand new frontend application
- This team is tasked with building an excellent web experience that unifies Vimeo’s Content and Media feature set from across OTT, Vimeo Core, and On-Demand into a singular product offering
- The Media Unification undertaking presents a unique opportunity to integrate features from across systems into a product with an already-established customer base
- As the founding engineer on this new team, you will be empowered to establish not only the technical bar for what we build, but more importantly, you’ll get to shape the team’s values, culture, and standards, as well as our philosophies around collaboration, diversity, and inclusion
- Write well-tested, performant, and accessible code for a new web platform experience using React, Next.js, and other frameworks when they are the right tool for the job
- Drive the technical research, planning, and execution of a new core web experience that will unlock an even richer toolset on top of a best-in-class platform
- Grow your technical expertise to become an effective collaborator with other teams and disciplines on complex integrations and innovative technical solutions
- Develop, refine, and uphold best practices and standards, and become a trusted engineering leader
Our take
Vimeo was founded by filmmakers who wanted an efficient way to share videos with others. It is more creator-oriented than YouTube, with professional software, technology, and tools for creators to produce, share, and sell their videos.
In 2007, it became the first online video sharing site to support HD playback for consumers, updating to 4K playback in 2016. Vimeo's app has also been updated to allow recording and live streaming as well as watching video. This service is aimed predominantly at enterprise customers although they have millions of small-time users too.
Vimeo has risen to become the world's biggest ad-free open video platform, with significant funding that has allowed it to expand operations and build up the business. Recently, however, the company has found itself struck by the effects of the economic downturn felt by much of the industry, and has been forced to reduce its workforce - a step taken to ensure it comes out of this rough time "a stronger company". On top of this, it received a hefty fine for failure to remove copyrighted content back in 2019, after losing an appeal against the initial ruling.
In 2024, Vimeo is rumoured to be in the process of acquisition by leading mobile app developer Bending Spoons, which could signify a major shift in the tech landscape.
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Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2021
$300m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Nov 2020
$150m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $450m
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off
- Medical and dental
- Daily breakfast, plus snacks and drinks aplenty
- Company outings and events
- Tuition reimbursement
- Company equity
- Company-matched charitable donations
- Parental leave and adoption assistance
- Company-matched 401k
Company values
- Start with Users: Understand our users’ goals, and make them your own. Solve for what users need, not what they ask for.
- Ask Why: Respectfully challenge ideas and embrace open debate. Validate intuitions with evidence.
- Aim High: Be willing to take risks to deliver outsized impact. Greatness only comes from making bold decisions.
- Own It: Commit to targets. Take the initiative, follow through and own the outcome. If processes are slowing you down, introduce better ones.
- Be Real: Seek feedback and give it generously. Be direct. Be candid. Most of all, be you.
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Adam Gross
(Interim CEO)Currently Board Member at Buildkite. Previously Chair of the Board of Directors at Democracy Works and the CEO of Salesforce.
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