Software Engineer I, Builder Frameworks

Twitch

Job Summary

Twitch is the world's largest live streaming service, fostering global communities across gaming, entertainment, and more. The Builder Frameworks team is seeking a backend Software Engineer I passionate about developer experience, building platforms, and creating internal tools and libraries. This role focuses on improving engineer productivity and effectiveness by developing performant, high-quality products and contributing to company-wide software development vision and architecture.

Must Have

  • Build new and support existing tools shared across Twitch
  • Develop tools and automation to ease the setup and maintenance of services
  • Participate in setting a company wide vision for software development
  • Act as a mentor to other engineers in the company as an expert in tools
  • Level up our team by contributing to company-wide software architecture and design
  • Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem
  • 1+ years of experience writing quality software in Go or Typescript
  • Understanding of deployment tools and the software that makes software work
  • A desire to constantly make things better

Good to Have

  • Knowledge of Go’s ecosystem
  • Experience working with GraphQL
  • Experience debugging complicated production software
  • Experience with asynchronous services
  • Experience working with distributed teams

Perks & Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Amazon Employee Discount

Job Description

About Us

Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.

We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn

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About the Role

Care deeply about the developer experience? Like building platforms and tools, tackling hard technical challenges, and ultimately enabling video content creators to earn a living doing what they love? Do you have a passion for internal tools, libraries and setting direction for an entire company? If so, you’d be a great fit for the Software Engineer role in the Builder Frameworks team. We're looking for a backend engineer to help us ship performant, high-quality, and delightful products.

Our goal is to improve the productivity and effectiveness of every engineer and leader at Twitch. Through a lens of pure customer obsession, we create a variety of internal products, services, tools and libraries which address important areas such as availability and latency. As an engineer on our team, you will contribute your ideas, own your part, and always keep our users first in mind.

You Will:

  • Build new and support existing tools shared across Twitch to make software better
  • Develop tools and automation to ease the setup and maintenance of services
  • Participate in setting a company wide vision for software development
  • Act as a mentor to other engineers in the company as an expert in tools
  • Level up our team by contributing to company-wide software architecture and design

You Have:

  • Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem
  • 1+ years of experience writing quality software in Go or Typescript
  • Understanding of deployment tools and the software that makes software work
  • A desire to constantly make things better

Bonus Points

  • Knowledge of Go’s ecosystem
  • Experience working with  GraphQL
  • Experience debugging complicated production software
  • Experience with asynchronous services
  • Experience working with distributed teams

Perks

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

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits

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5 Skills Required For This Role

Problem Solving Game Texts Aws Graphql Typescript