Software Engineer I

About Us

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About the Role

Streamer Monetization Experience is a team within the Commerce organization here at Twitch that focuses on ensuring our creators have the tools they need to make a living doing what they love. As an engineer here you'll help us continue to improve these experiences, like Emotes and Alerts, and build new features to help creators recognize and reward their supporters.

As an engineer on the team, you will work alongside a highly engaged and collaborative team that works to design, build and maintain systems that scale to millions of concurrent users. We actively seek to continue to improve our experiences for our users and are looking for new team members that share that passion.

This role is based out of our Seattle office.

You Will:

• Learn and contribute across the full stack of our software
• Backend (Go), Web Frontend (React), Mobile Frontend (iOS / Android)
• Collaborate with fellow engineers, product managers and designers to build new products and solutions
• Participate in Operational Excellence work to maintain and support our live services
• Help earn customer trust by working with our support teams to resolve issues and fix production bugs

You Have:

• 1 - 2 years of relevant software engineering experience
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience as a Software Engineer
• A strong foundation in data structures and algorithms.
• Familiarity with scalability, concurrency, API design, data modeling, and distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Go, Java, Python or another Object-oriented language
• An eagerness to grow as a Software Engineer
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Bonus Points

• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure
• Coding experience in either iOS or Android
• Coding experience with React
• Twitch experience / knowledge as a viewer, moderator or streamer

Perks

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

Job ID: TW8816

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