Software Engineer I, Twitch Chat

<h3><strong>About Us</strong></h3> <p>Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.</p> <p>We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on <a class="c-link" href="https://link.twitch.tv/TwitchLinkedinJD" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://link.twitch.tv/TwitchLinkedinJD" data-sk="tooltip_parent">LinkedIn</a> and <a class="c-link" href="https://link.twitch.tv/TwitchTwitterJD" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://link.twitch.tv/TwitchTwitterJD" data-sk="tooltip_parent">X</a>, and discover the projects we’re solving on our <a class="c-link" href="https://link.twitch.tv/TwitchBlogJD" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://link.twitch.tv/TwitchBlogJD" data-sk="tooltip_parent">Blog</a>. Be sure to explore our <a class="c-link" href="https://link.twitch.tv/TwitchInterviewingJD" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://link.twitch.tv/TwitchInterviewingJD" data-sk="tooltip_parent">Interviewing Guide</a> to learn how to ace our interview process.</p> <h3><strong>About the Team</strong></h3> <p>The Application Experiences org builds products that help communities connect with each other, and ways for viewers to find and interact with their favourite content. We are exploring how we can evolve the mobile experience, as well as deliver performant and delightful experiences across mobile and web.</p> <h3><strong>About the Role</strong></h3> <p>On our team you’ll be primarily working to improve our Application Performance, making our mobile experiences faster. We also own and support Twitch Chat, you’ll be working with large-scale services and partnering with other teams at Twitch regularly. This position is primarily focused on frontend development (React) but is expected to be fullstack, with some responsibilities around supporting and maintaining backend systems.</p> <div id="fortidlp-input-element-parent"></div> <h3><strong>You Will:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Work with product managers, technical leads, and other engineers to design, develop, launch, and operate interactive experiences</li> <li>Investigate, instrument and solve performance problems</li> <li>Build distributed applications at scale</li> <li>Collaborate with both your team and related teams - fostering shared understanding of how to solve common problems and deliver solutions </li> <li>Work backwards from customer problems to drive business impact</li> </ul> <h3><strong>You Have:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>1+ Years experience developing software in a professional environment</li> <li>Prior experience building consumer-facing products at scale</li> <li>Proficient coding skills in modern languages and frameworks such as React, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C etc</li> <li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills. </li> <li>Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Bonus Points</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Familiarity with AWS infrastructure</li> <li>Experience with languages/frameworks we use at Twitch: React, Typescript, Golang</li> <li>Experience with mobile development (although, this is not a mobile development role) </li> <li>Experience building software and services using AWS technologies such as ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions</li> <li>Familiarity with Twitch, gaming, and/or streaming on Twitch</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Perks</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Medical, Dental, Vision Disability Insurance</li> <li>401(k)</li> <li>Maternity Parental Leave</li> <li>Flexible PTO</li> <li>Amazon Employee Discount<br><br></li> </ul> <p><em>Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualif ... (truncated, view full listing at source)