Vidyard - Staff Software Developer

• A solid background in software engineering—you have had 10+ years of experience building scalable web products.
• A high tolerance for ambiguity and a recognition that action is sometimes the best path to discovery.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills—you strive for clarity and understanding, and you can navigate discussions around risks and tradeoffs.
• The desire to drive improvements to our standards of quality, reliability, and performance.
• Lean thinking and an experimental, metrics-driven mindset.
• Eagerness to knowledge share among other senior - staff level developers and provide mentorship to all developers across the organization.
• You can break down complex problems rigorously and understand the tradeoffs necessary to deliver great, impactful solutions.

Technical Skills We’re Targeting:

• Node.js
• Vue or React
• Typescript
• GraphQL
• Redis
• Message queue & broker systems (ie. BullMQ)
• MySQL
• S3
• Ruby
• Python
• GitHub
• Integrating AI Models (ie.ChatGPT)

At Vidyard, we make life easier for sellers, marketers and corporate communicators. Our video messaging tools, digital sales room platform, and other products are used by Microsoft, LinkedIn, and thousands of other companies. We’re passionate about elevating our customers, our teammates, our communities, and ourselves.

Vidyard is looking for a Staff Software Developer to join our Development team. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Software Development, you’ll work with a cross functional team consisting of developers, designers and product managers to solve customer problems and deliver amazing software.

This is a remote role open to candidates located in Canada

• Designing, building and scaling distributed systems.
• Leading architecture design + documentation for upcoming projects.
• Building observability + resilience around third-party integrations.
• Setting up Automated Testing (unit, integration, e2e).
• Dealing with authentication/authorization/security within distributed systems.
• Delivering software with an Iterative approach, experience running experiments & updating designs/deliverables based on results .
• Implementation of monitoring/alerting, using feedback loops to understand system performance.
• Supporting and collaborating with a cross functional team consisting of developers, designers and product managers to solve customer problems and deliver amazing software.
• Mentoring and knowledge sharing across all levels of development.
• Contributing code to projects, reviewing and testing code while ensuring security standards are at the forefront of development.
• Designing and architecting core services; developing internal tools and maintaining repositories.
• Mastering our large areas of relevant codebase to provide technical leadership to the teams that work in those areas.
• Pushing large technical initiatives forward and thinking strategically about our platform.
• Learning and applying new technologies to relentlessly drive developers, and our platform, forward!