Software Engineering Manager, Media Delivery

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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 Software Engineering Manager to join our rapidly growing Media Delivery team at our New York City headquarters. Responsible for Content Delivery, the right candidate will relish the opportunity to build, lead and mentor a continuous delivery organization.

We need a seasoned, hands-on manager to streamline our development and release cycle, measure and optimize our system performance and help grow a 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 scale/high availability solutions within AWS
  • Prototype new ideas and explore new solutions to the growing list of problems the platform solves
  • Represent the Media Delivery team for all cross functional initiatives
  • Plan technical strategy, and execute against those plans
  • Mentor your team members focused on growing their careers
  • Be hands-on and contribute to our codebase. Our managers are very technical and are hands on with their teams.

Requirements: 

  • 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 SaaS software
  • Proven track record of delivering quality large scale products
  • Experience with microservices architecture: designing, creating, deploying, testing and monitoring
  • 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
  • Experience with event-driven or message-driven architecture
  • Knowledge of video delivery, content management platforms, and/or streaming protocols
  • Experience owning systems that serve 10,000+ requests per second
  • Experience with Docker and/or Linux Containers
  • Experience migrating monolithic systems to services at scale


About JW Player

JW Player pioneered video on the web over a decade ago and continues to innovate as the world’s largest network-independent platform for video delivery and intelligence. Media companies including Fox, VICE, Business Insider, and Univision, in addition to hundreds of thousands of creators of all types and sizes, rely on JW Player to deliver and monetize their content across all devices. JW Player’s massive global footprint of over 2 billion unique devices creates a powerful data graph of unique consumer insights and generates billions of incremental video views. The company is headquartered in New York, with offices in London and Eindhoven, and was named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ in 2017. For more information, visit http://www.jwplayer.com

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.

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JW Player is located two blocks behind Bryant Park. Close to the Bryant Park and Times Square subway stations.

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