Position: Senior Software Engineer - US company
Company: RemoteBranch
Category: Node.js
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

New York-based video infrastructure startup is looking for a full-time remote Senior Software Engineer.
This is a direct hire opportunity, firms don’t need to apply.

Salary range: $80k-$100k
Equity range: 0.25%-2%

About the product and the company:
Company is building an API platform for editing and processing video at scale. Think about creating a reel on Instagram, but doing this for tens of thousands of videos per day. Typical uses are:
Building shareable assets from existing user-generated content.
Generating short preview videos from live streams.
Supporting any other social media or enterprise use-case where videos need to be compiled automatically, based on certain rules, and at scale.
While the main product is the API, there are plans to build low-code and no-code interrogations to make the platform more accessible for less-technical customers.


Technical qualifications:
NodeJS / Typescript - required
PHP / Laravel - be able to read and modify existing code
Python - be able to read and modify existing code

Bonus skills:
Rust & WebAssembly experience
Understanding of how video encoding works, specifically FFmpeg/MEncoder
Familiarity with infrastructure as code platforms such as Terraform
Understanding of GPU encoding & shaders


Language requirements
We are a US-based company with some of our employees working remotely from other countries. We communicate in English, and, therefore, the ability to communicate in English both verbally and in writing is required. You don’t need to have perfect grammar, spelling, or pronunciation, as long as we all understand each other.