Twitch Software Engineer 1 at Twitch works on video on demand, clips, and short-form content platforms. The role involves full stack development with backend in Go and frontend in React, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
On-Demand is a team within the Engagement Growth organization at Twitch, focused on ensuring our creators have the tools they need to build, grow, and entertain their communities. As an engineer here, you'll work on our video on demand, clips, and other short-form content. This includes how creators create and curate them, as well as the platforms that distribute these assets to all of their viewers. You'll work alongside a highly engaged, collaborative team that designs, builds, and maintains systems that scale to millions of concurrent users. We're constantly improving the experience for our users, and we're looking for new team members who share that passion for the end user. This position is in Seattle, WA.
Learn and contribute across the full stack of our software
Backend (Go), Frontend (React)
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
Qualification
Familiarity with scalabilityProficiency in GoFamiliarity with AWS infrastructureCoding experience with React
Required
A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience as a Software Engineer
Willingness to learn new things and work with a diverse group of people
A strong foundation in data structures and algorithms.
Familiarity with scalability, concurrency, API design, data modeling, and distributed systems fundamentals.
Proficiency in Go, Java, Python or another Object-oriented language
An eagerness to grow as a Software Engineer
Preferred
Familiarity with AWS infrastructure
Coding experience with React
Twitch experience / knowledge as a viewer, moderator or streamer