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About the Role

Twitch is building the future of interactive entertainment, and video is at the very core of that vision. Twitch's Video Playback Engineering team is looking for experienced Android engineers to help build a cross-platform video playback solution to support web, mobile, and other platforms. As a mobile engineer in the Video Playback Team, you will help shape the future of the Twitch playback experience used by millions of users across different web browsers, mobile devices, gaming consoles, and more.

If you are passionate about Android platform and media, streaming, or obsessed about performance and want to participate in creating the best video playback/broadcast system out there, then this position is for you. You will work with a proven and accomplished team in the video space and will build an Android SDK that scales to the highest live video traffic currents.

You Will:

  • Develop our video playback/broadcast experience on Android mobile devices and cross-platform software stack
  • Work with backend video teams like ingest, transcode, replication, and mapping teams to improve the video playback/broadcast experience
  • Add reliable cross-platform unit, integration, and e2e tests
  • Remain current on current technologies and recent developments in mobile and media technologies.
  • Participate in the decision-making process.

You Have:

  • 6+ years of professional software development or equivalent experience.
  • Applied background in C/C++
  • Development experience on Android
  • Experience with multithreaded programming, object-oriented design and real-time considerations.

Bonus Points

  • Experience building cross-platform libraries/SDKs and shipping successful software products.
  • Experience with audio/video or graphics on Android (or mobile platform)
  • Familiarity with video streaming technologies (HLS, DASH, RTMP) or codecs such as H.264
  • Experience with WebRTC
  • Experience with network protocols
  • Experience with MediaCodec, MediaProjection, SurfaceView on Android
  • Experience with ExoPlayer codebase

Perks

  • Full benefits, including Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Maternity & Parental Leave
  • Flexible PTO
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Amazon Employee Discount
  • Monthly Contribution and Discounts for Wellness Related Activities & Programs (e.g., gym memberships, off-site massages, etc.)
  • Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Served Daily
  • Free Snacks & Beverages

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Twitch. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.