Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Twitchs vision is millions of creators sharing realtime video experiences with their communities. Twitch Developers mission is to enable any developer in the world to build a business around those experiences. We obsess about our customers needs, delivering products that help game developers make their games better to stream, and help community developers customize Twitch for their favorite streamers. Our products include Extensions, the Twitch API, Drops, Identity, Developer Insights, CurseForge, and dev.twitch.tv - and we have an ambitious roadmap.

Were looking for engineers for our San Francisco office who love delighting customers with useful products and seamless user experiences. Youll work closely with product managers, UX designers, data scientists and engineers of all disciplines to craft a beautiful and engaging product, iterate based on customer feedback, and ship early and often. Youll grow by taking on significant engineering challenges involving massive scale, high availability, cross-platform implementation, and new-to-the-world solutions. Your work will be seen by thousands of developers and millions of consumers, and underpins Twitchs most critical 2018 initiatives. Bring your learning mindset and sense of humor - were looking forward to meeting you.

Responsibilities
Brainstorm with designers and product managers to design new features
Specify, implement, and maintain the services that will power these features
Implement experiments and collect data with our data scientists to drive subsequent iterations on these features
Participate in code and design reviews, teaching and learning from other engineers
Identify and uphold engineering best practices
Help our support team triage bugs, respond to user feedback, and fix production issues
Share your opinion about the user experience and help improve it
Level up the organization around you through code reviews and engineering best practices
Own the quality of the features you ship
Push code to production several times a day if necessary

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

4+ years of hands-on experience building full stack web applications
Mature understanding of every aspect of SDLC: requirements, design, coding, unit and integration testing, deployment, support, deprecation
Architectural and design experience in building, deploying and operating services at scale with well defined interfaces and data modelling.
Demonstrated past experience working on user interfaces and an eye for detail
Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (ES6, Ember, React, etc.)
Strong CS fundamentals and value rigor in engineering
Experience shipping consumer-facing web applications
You are equally excited to build a minimum viable product quickly as you are cementing a proven feature in maintainable and tested code.
Strong organizational and communication skills
You thrive in loosely structured environments
You take feedback well, and have a growth mindset
You focus on quality, sweat the details, and delight our users
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

A degree in Computer Science or equivalent academic background
Experience working with Golang
Experience with modern browser technologies and cross-browser compatibility issues
Familiarity with Twitch and/or video games