Software Engineer API Platform

1 Month ago • 1 Years + • Full Stack Development • $99,500 PA - $200,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The API Platform team at Twitch builds high-traffic, internet-facing services powering Twitch websites, mobile clients, and third-party developers. As a Software Engineer, you'll develop, maintain, and innovate around first-party GraphQL APIs and real-time platforms. You'll work with multiple product teams, focusing on high-throughput, low-latency edge services and robust real-time messaging features. Responsibilities include collaborating with product leaders, contributing to architectural discussions, designing real-time features, and upholding engineering best practices. The role requires experience with distributed, low-latency, high-availability applications and statically-typed languages (Go preferred).
Must have:
  • 1+ years building distributed applications
  • Experience with statically-typed languages
  • API development experience
  • High-quality code writing
  • Collaboration and problem-solving skills
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with AWS
  • Messaging/event-driven systems experience
  • Large public API experience
Perks:
  • Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Maternity & Parental Leave
  • Flexible PTO
  • Amazon Employee Discount

Job Details

About Twitch

Twitch is the world's biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It's where millions of people come together to chat, interact, and make their own entertainment.

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 and Twitter, get interviewing tips on Instagram, and discover projects we're solving on our Blog.

About the Role

The API Platform team builds high-traffic, internet-facing services that power Twitch websites, mobile clients, and our large third party developer community.  Our GraphQL edge service is one of the biggest in the industry based on performance, throughput, and sheer number of downstream services it connects. The team owns the internal and external messaging platforms that power real-time capabilities on our website, native apps and third-party apps like StreamElements and StreamLabs. We handle billions of notifications per day.

We’re looking for engineers with a strong interest in building and architecting scalable, low latency and fault tolerant APIs . As a software engineer on the API platform team, you will help develop, maintain and innovate around our first party GraphQL APIs and real-time platforms while working with multiple product teams to deliver great experience and content to our streamers and viewers communities. You'll shape the work of your peers, and be an integral part of our engineering team, reporting to our Engineering Manager for API Development.

The ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative fast paced environment, takes initiative, and proactively seeks opportunities to grow their skills and knowledge. If you are a self-starter who is naturally curious and eager to learn, we'd love to hear from you!

You Will

  • Work with the product leaders to build and release new features to empower Twitch. 
  • Work on high throughput, low latency edge services.
  • Contribute to architectural, design, and process discussions involving the technological choices involved in building Twitch’s GraphQL API and real-time platform.
  • Design and deliver robust real-time messaging features that enable seamless service notifications
  • You’ll identify and uphold engineering best practices.

You Have

  • 1+ years of experience building distributed, low-latency, high availability applications.
  • A degree in Computer Science, a related Engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.
  • Have experience developing with static-typed languages. We work mostly in Go, and while experience as a Go developer isn’t required (you can learn it pretty quickly), we do believe being good at types is an important qualification.
  • Enjoy building intuitive APIs for developers.
  • Write high quality code that’s easy to read and understand.

Bonus Point

  • Familiarity with AWS technologies.
  • Familiarity with messaging or event driven systems.
  • Experience building and maintaining large public API’s.

Perks

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

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

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

Twitch values your privacy. Please consult our Candidate Privacy Notice, for information about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information of our candidates.

Job ID: TW8713

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographic market up to our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. This position will remain open until filled. For more information, please visit https://www.twitch.tv/jobs/en/#learn-more. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

 

US Pay Per Year

$99,500 - $200,000 USD

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