Staff Backend Engineer, GameChanger
Video Enablement
$200-240k
Offers Equity; Offers Bonus
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Scorekeeping & statistics app for sports teams
Be an early applicant
Scorekeeping & statistics app for sports teams
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-240k
Offers Equity; Offers Bonus
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
GameChanger's mission is to help families elevate the next generation through sports.
Role
Who you are
- Background in video and audio streaming with a focus on live-streaming of user-generated content
- 5+ years of experience building scalable video pipelines in cloud environments (We use AWS but any cloud/container experience is fine)
- Experience with audio and video packaging principles, codecs, and other associated tools, including their relative tradeoffs, such as MPEG Video, MPEG-2 TS, HLS, DASH, H.264 AVC, H.265 HEVC, VP9, AV1, VVC, RTMP/enhanced RTMP, SRT, FFMPEG, and DRM
- Hands-on software development experience designing and building live and video on demand streaming workflows and exposure to many video technologies around mobile broadcast, ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and related systems at scale
- Proficiency reading and coding in at least one of the languages commonly used in the video space, such as c#/golang/C++/Rust/Python, and experience in other higher-level languages such as Node/TypeScript, React, or mobile languages like Kotlin or Swift
- Experience designing/building/connecting internal APIs/SDKs across the stack (backend to front end) to ensure rapid feature development
- Experience mentoring and working with other teams through documentation and live sessions on the best way to accomplish building features using the system we build/own
- Familiarity with mobile video broadcasting of user-generated content and the challenges of optimizing streaming quality and reliability across a variety of devices and network conditions
- Hands-on experience with one or more video players
- Front end development experience in web, iOS (Swift), or Android (Kotlin) required
- Experience creating detailed technical documentation that details how to break down complex projects and technical details for team members of varying expertise
- Technical leadership experience in software engineering roles in the video streaming space
- Comfortable working across multiple technologies, programming languages, and areas of the video stack
- Foster collaboration within technical teams
- Someone who loves learning the latest tech in the mobile and live streaming spaces, and loves teaching it to other engineers and product managers
- Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)
What the job involves
- As Staff Backend Engineer, you’ll be a hands-on architect and software engineer leading development efforts within the team, influencing direction, roadmaps, and technical direction
- You’ll collaborate with the team's Engineering Manager and Product Manager on technical strategy, mentor and pair with other developers, and collaborate with other platform and product teams to develop video-related projects that grow our streaming capabilities, handle our increasing scale, and improve our users’ experience with video to ensure that fans can always capture and watch the moments that matter to them most
- As a founding member of this new team, you’ll help set the tone and culture, onboard other engineers, and influence the entire video stack: mobile broadcast and playback frameworks, back-end ingest/transcoding/playback infrastructure, VoD storage and playback, and hooks for other workflows such as automatic highlight clipping, advertising, live-stream overlays, and AI/Computer Vision workflows
- You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of our Video team
- Working in your team of mobile, web, back-end, and infrastructure engineers, you’ll architect, code, and support video features across the video pipeline stack, including live video ingestion, transcoding, integration, storage, and playback/usage at scale
- Working with the team's Engineering Manager and Product Manager, you’ll help refine the strategic roadmap for the technology powering our video features as we continue to grow and add new capabilities
- Collaborate with mobile, web, machine learning/computer vision, and platform teams on multi-faceted projects across the entire video processing system to lead improved user experiences and outcomes
- Review and provide feedback on designs and code PRs, pair on architectures, and provide guidance and hands-on help
- Help to build and connect to internal SDKs, frameworks, and tooling to allow product development teams to easily integrate video into the product at different stages of the video pipeline
- Help build real-time monitoring and measurement systems for critical operational workflows in the video pipeline, including tools for on-call developers and customer support to manage and troubleshoot issues
- Lead, mentor, interview, and onboard other software engineers in the video and live-streaming space
- Be able to be in an on call rotation to support our production systems if issues arise off hours
Our take
The competitive nature of sports has always been driven by scorekeeping, and nowadays results are often consumed online. However, for smaller teams it can be difficult to provide this information digitally, as they do not have dedicated web development staff.
GameChanger provides a scorekeeping and statistics platform for sports teams to engage with their fans, that allows viewers to track the progress of a game in real-time similar to with professional sports. The company also embeds a live-streaming service into the platform to facilitate remote viewing, helping to increase audience engagement.
Whilst some sports teams already stream events on platforms such as Twitch and Youtube, most do not have the technical resources to achieve this. GameChanger has recognized this gap in the market, providing a simple yet unified platform for sports scoreboards and streaming, providing a fair opportunity for any team to maximize their community engagement.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2014
$6.8m
SERIES B
Nov 2011
$1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $10.5m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Vacation - Take time off work and travel the world. Enjoy unlimited vacation time.
- Remote Work - GameChanger’s can work from anywhere. You’ll receive a tech budget to make sure you’re set up for success.
- Health Insurance - We’ll make sure you stay healthy. Health, dental, vision, and other perks like a pre-tax FSA - we've got you covered.
- 401K Plan - We’re always looking ahead and so should you. Did we mention that we match?
- Tech Budget - You receive a large tech budget every two years. It’s yours to keep.
- Continued Learning - Tuition reimbursement, an annual flexible learning budget, mentorship opportunities, and more.
- Parental Leave - Get the time off you need with extended parental leave for both parents.
- Wellness - Stay fit and healthy on us. We offer a Gympass membership.
- Other Perks - Monthly Snack Boxes, Dick's Sporting Goods employee discount, Demo Day, Hack Day, virtual and in person team social events
Company values
- Customer obsessed - We put our customers first, always asking, “Will this enhance their youth sports experience?”. We deeply understand our customers and work hard to anticipate their needs. We celebrate and support our customers’ contributions to their communities
- Team Players - We hold each other accountable to deliver our best effort. We are empathetic and supportive, providing a safe environment for risk taking. We listen actively, encourage debate, and commit to action. We do unglamorous work in service of the team
- Ambitious - We take on challenging initiatives designed to drive significant growth. We are mission-oriented, working with urgency to deliver value to our customers. We set a high bar, invest in development, and strive to be the best
- Empowered - We take the initiative to solve problems. We entrust decisions to those closest to the problem. We embrace individual responsibility and accountability
- Focused - We say “no” to valuable initiatives so we can concentrate resources on our most important work. We respect others’ time by limiting distractions, running efficient meetings and communicating concisely
Company HQ
East Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Sameer Ahuja
(President, not founder)SVP at DICK’S Sporting Goods, that owns GameChanger. Former Founder and CEO of Dera Capital Advisors, as well as former Co-founder and COO/CFO of the Sports Museum of America.
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