Software Engineer, Vimeo
$110.7-169.5k
Salary dependent on location
All-in-one video experience platform
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All-in-one video experience platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$110.7-169.5k
Salary dependent on location
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
- 3+ years of technical experience working on consumer-facing products
- Hands-on experience in fullstack web development, from creating frontend interfaces to building and maintaining APIs, and optimizing database transactions
- Working understanding of technologies such as React, Typescript and/or PHP would be especially beneficial
- Interest in working on a large-scale system - making products more performant, scalable and robust
- A strong eye for product design, consideration for user experience, and unwavering attention to detail
- Ability to communicate and collaborate respectfully and effectively with both technical and non-technical teams across time zones
What the job involves
- The team is responsible for all the various viewing surfaces on Vimeo, visited by millions of users each day. Fullstack Engineers on the Viewer Home team collaborate with product management and designers to plan, test, and execute a roadmap of new and updated products.
- We own the full technical stack, from APIs to frontend UI, for projects to drive viewer engagement, improve monetization tools, and encourage collaboration and community. We believe diversity of perspective and experience are key to building great technology, and that the best way to iterate towards success is by taking care of ourselves, our families, our users, and one another
- Build, maintain and enhance our video viewing destinations, across a range of devices and contexts
- Apply and evolve your fullstack skill set to create engaging viewing experiences, combining high-quality user experience with performance, stability and scalability
- Collaborate closely with our Product, Design, Engineering and QA teams to move key projects from conception to launch
- Contribute towards defining and improving our technical roadmap to enable rapid iteration and long term stability
- Identify opportunities to improve our architecture and tooling across multiple levels of the stack
- Support fellow engineers to achieve team goals and company-wide initiatives
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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