Senior Software Engineer

Brightcove is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to be part of our Social Syndication team. The Social Syndication team is responsible for building and growing services and APIs that allow Brightcove customers to easily:

• Publish and manage video posts on an ever-growing number of social platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
• Collect and aggregate insightful social analytics data.
• Syndicate video metadata to enable seamless integration with customer and other third party systems.
• Perform essential pre-publication tasks such as video clipping. 

You will work on a well-established project that nonetheless has excellent product growth potential, with lots of new work in the pipeline. You will also work with a wide variety of technologies and third party libraries and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, test, support and monitor secure, performant, and highly scalable cloud services and APIs for use by other Brightcove components as well as external customers.
• Provide operational support for the platform.
• Work in an agile environment with a team of engineers to create new product features and to streamline/enhance existing solutions and workflows.
• Develop systems in the cloud (AWS).
• Develop clean, high quality code.

Qualifications/Experience

• Minimum 5+ years professional software development experience.
• Professional experience coding complex Java-based backend services.
• Experience with AWS and with using the AWS SDK to interact with AWS cloud services (we leverage DynamoDB, SNS, SQS, S3, Lambda, Elasticsearch, CloudFront, and a bunch more!). 
• Experience with building cloud applications at scale, and ability to design and implement services that exhibit excellent performance, robustness, and efficiency under load.
• Experience designing and implementing REST API services as well as client applications that interact with third party REST API services.
• Positive attitude with highly collaborative approach in solving problems and executing on deliverables with accountability and purpose.
• Ability to solve difficult problems, write thorough unit tests, and communicate well both verbally and in writing.

Nice to have: 

• Direct experience working with social platform APIs (Facebook Graph API, etc.) and SDKs
• Experience with the Dropwizard REST service framework
• Experience with containerized application technologies like docker and kubernetes
• Javascript/TypeScript development experience
• Exposure to Datadog, Sumo Logic
• CI/CD (TeamCity, Jenkins)
• Terraform

About Brightcove 

Brightcove is a team of smart, passionate people who are revolutionizing the way organizations deliver video. We’re hyped up about storytelling, and about helping people connect, share experiences, and view the world. Bottom line: video is the world’s most compelling, exciting medium, and Brightcove exists to demonstrate that video means business.

As the industry leader in this space, we empower our customers to deliver top-notch video experiences to audiences on every screen in bold and innovative ways. When video is done right, it can have a powerful and lasting effect. Hearts open. Minds change. Creativity thrives. Since 2004, Brightcove has been supporting customers that are some of the largest media companies, enterprises, events, and non-profit organizations in the world. There are over 600 Brightcovers globally, each of us representing our unique talents and passions and we have built a culture that values individual empowerment, excellence and collaboration. This culture enables us to develop technologies once thought impossible, provide customer support without parallel or excuses, and leverage the expertise and resources of a global infrastructure. We take our video seriously, and we take great pride in doing it as one team.

WORKING AT BRIGHTCOVE 

As the undisputed global leader in powering premium video for our customers, Brightcove recruits and retains highly qualified and motivated individuals, creating an environment where people can innovate and achieve their best, and we reward them for their performance by giving them the opportunity to share in the company’s success. We offer competitive benefits and compensation packages. 

This role is designated to be located in our brand new Guadalajara office which is in Puerta de Hierro, part of the metropolitan area of Guadalajara. We offer 3 work arrangements: 100% remote, hybrid, or onsite. The office has been designed with the latest technology, an open yet focused working space layout and employees enjoy access to stocked kitchens with daily catered lunches and social activities. We have plenty of opportunities to meet your colleagues around the globe and we also celebrate a variety of personal interests with organized groups and clubs including an Employee Action Committee, Women of Brightcove, Pride of Brightcove, Parents of Brightcove … and more to come!

If you've gotten all the way to the bottom of this description, thank you for your interest in Brightcove!  If this role sounds like something that is exciting to you please don't hesitate to apply, even if you don't meet all of our qualifications.  We recognize that no candidate is perfect and Brightcove would love to have the chance to get to know you.   

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Send us your resume if you are interested and want to learn more!

**Please submit your resume in English to be considered for this role.**

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