Scale matters. And when it comes to our video platform, scale means ingesting tens of thousands of hours of video a day, and thousands of videos served every second.

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to join our team in our New York City headquarters. Our Video Platform team manages over a million video assets under management. The right candidate will relish the opportunity to build, lead and mentor a continuous delivery organization. We're looking for a seasoned hands-on software engineering leader to streamline our development and release cycle, measure and optimize our system performance and get the most out of a mature, talented team that ships code frequently at the highest possible caliber.

In this role you will:

• Lead an engineering organization in an Agile environment 
• Serve as architect for a production-scale service layer
• Build features which serve customer-driven product goals
• Prototype new ideas and explore new solutions to the growing list of problems the platform solves
• Work directly with Product Managers and Engineers to iterate on product features and ideas
• Work as part of a collaborative team in a fast paced, agile environment

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development and engineering and 5+ years managing a team of Engineers
• Bachelor's in Science or greater in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field; or experience equivalent
• Desire to lead, drive and mentor a highly technical team in a fast-paced environment
• Proven track record of ownership of stable and maintainable software
• Experience doing test-driven development (TDD) and/or behavior-driven development (BDD)
• Strong database design and RDBMS concepts, experience doing domain-driven design
• Experience building scalable systems with cloud infrastructures like AWS or Google Cloud Platform
• Strong understanding of source control management systems
• Strong Unix/Linux skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Contributed to existing open-source projects as well as your own
• Knowledge of video encoding, ad networks, content management platforms, and/or streaming protocols
• Experience with web video (HTML5 and/or Flash)
• Experience with Docker and/or Linux Containers
• Experience with configuration management and provisioning servers (SaltStack, Consul)

About Us

 If you've watched video on the web, you already know us. JW Player is a venture-funded, online video software company based in Manhattan. Our flagship product, the JW Player, is deployed on over 2 million websites and streams billions of videos each month. Started in 2008 as the world’s first open source video player, today the company’s customers span the globe across 193 countries and range from Fortune 500 companies to individual bloggers. We’re busy innovating for the future by actively hiring smart, motivated, and innovation-driven people! Come help us imagine and define what comes next! jwplayer.com/careers

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