Software Engineer - Creator

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About the Role

The Creator Growth team builds new products and features that help our creators improve their streams and grow their audience on Twitch. We’re looking for a full stack engineer with a strength in backend development willing to work end-to-end to improve existing experiences and bring delightful new experiences into our products. As an engineer on our team, you will work on products our creators use every day such as the Notifications Platform, Creator Dashboard, Creator Analytics, Recorded Content Experiences, and more. Our job is to ensure that every streamer on Twitch has a great experience and support them as they grow.

If you are passionate about helping creators on Twitch grow and succeed, this is the place for you! You can work from San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York City, NY, or Irvine, CA!

You Will:

• Work with teams within Creator Growth and others to build high-quality Twitch products and creator experiences
• Contribute to architectural, design, and process discussions involving technological choices
• Implement features primarily in the Twitch backend tech and at times in the Twitch frontend or mobile tech stacks
• Identify and uphold engineering best practices
• Work backwards from customer needs to create working designs on-time
• Work in a supportive team environment with shared code, code reviews, and disciplined quality control; quality begins with the developers on the team

You Have:

• Completed a degree in Computer Science, a related Engineering discipline, or have equivalent experience
• Completed 1+ years of professional software development or equivalent internship or co-op experience
• Proficiency in one or more of the following: Go, Java, C#, Kotlin, C++ or Scala
• Proficiency in Javascript or Typescript
• A strong foundation of data structures and algorithms
• An attitude of self improvement, able to take feedback well and collaborate with teammates

Bonus Points

• Experience working in a service-oriented or microservice architecture using Go
• Experience working with AWS or similar cloud platform services configuring infrastructure with code
• Experience working with highly scalable notification platforms (Email, Push, SMS, On-site)
• Experience with live streaming tools on Twitch or other platforms
• Experience working on large-scale websites using React

Perks

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

Job ID: TW8844

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