Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Video Platform

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

The Position:

GameChanger users already live stream and watch millions of hours of youth sporting events and clips using the GameChanger app, and we’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to help lead the expansion of our video capabilities. You will be part of the newly formed video team which owns our video pipeline end to end, evolves our live streaming and post-game video capabilities for users, simplifies the developer experience for product teams that integrate video into our apps, and ensures we have a scalable and resilient platform to handle millions of streams and hundreds of millions of highlight clips annually.

As a Senior Full Stack Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be a hands-on engineer helping the team to build and support our video platform. You will collaborate within our team and 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 member of this team, you’ll give input into decisions that 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.

Check out some of our current video capabilities at https://gc.com/live-video

What You’ll Do:

• Working in your team of mobile, web, back-end, and infrastructure engineers, you’ll help to design, implement/code, and support video features across the video pipeline stack, including live video ingestion, transcoding, integration, storage, and playback/usage at scale.

• Work on our backend video platform ( written in TypeScript) providing APIs for other teams to build customer experiences from.

• Collaborate with other members of the team and other teams including: 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.

• Help build 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. Support the video workflows through an occasional (few days per month) on-call rotation with a team of other engineers.

• Help interview and onboard other software engineers in the video and live-streaming space.

• Participate in our on-call rotation to help ensure reliability and a great experience for our users.

What You’ll Bring:

• Background in video and audio streaming with a focus on live-streaming of user-generated content.

• Understanding of the basics of 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 video technologies around mobile broadcast, ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and related systems at scale.

• 5+ years of experience reading (preferably coding) in 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.

• 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.

• Experience designing/building/connecting internal APIs/SDKs across the stack (backend to front end) to ensure rapid feature development.

• Willingness to mentor/train/work with other teams through documentation and live sessions on the best way to accomplish building features using the system we build/own.

• Front end development experience in web, iOS (Swift), or Android (Kotlin) required.

• Experience building and supporting scalable video pipelines in cloud environments is a huge plus. We use AWS but any cloud/container experience is fine.

• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.)

Who You Are:

• Experience creating detailed technical documentation that details how to break down complex projects and technical details for team members of varying expertise.

• Comfortable working across multiple technologies, programming languages, and areas of the video stack.

• Able to effectively collaborate within your own and other technical teams.

• Someone who has experience learning the latest tech in the mobile and live streaming spaces.

Perks:

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology

• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.

• Learning stipend - $500 annually towards continued development

• Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly

• Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe

• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents.

• Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard, with an immediate company match.

• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.

• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.

• Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

• Family building benefits offered through Progyny.

• DICK’S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.

The target salary range for this position is between $160,000 and $200,000. This is part of a total compensation package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors including experience, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equal across the board.

*DICK'S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect us from compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: All official recruitment communications from GameChanger will come from an email address ending in @gc.com or no-reply@ashby.hq.com. If you receive communication from any other domain, please be cautious, as it is likely fraudulent.