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 Lead Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing Platform API team at our New York City headquarters. Responsible for our video Platform API and Content Delivery, 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 manager 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 team in an Agile environment
• Work directly with Product to deliver high quality solutions at scale
• Lead architecture discussions for high availability solutions within AWS
• Prototype new ideas and explore new solutions to the growing list of problems the platform solves
• Represent the PAPI team for all cross functional initiatives
• Plan technical strategy, and execute against those plans
• Mentor your team members focused on growing their careers
• Our managers are very technical and can code

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development and engineering and 2+ years managing a team of Engineers
• Bachelor's in Science or greater in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field; or experience equivalent
• Proven track record of ownership of stable and maintainable software
• Proven track record of delivering quality products
• Strong database design and RDBMS concepts, experience doing domain-driven design
• Strong understanding of Github or similar source control managements 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 owning systems that serve 10,000+ requests per second
• Experience with web video (HTML5 and/or Flash)
• Experience with Docker and/or Linux Containers
• Experience migrating monolithic systems to services at scale

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.