Software Engineer I, Commerce

Location: San Francisco, CA

Department: Community Growth

About Us

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.

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 LinkedIn and X, and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process.

About the Role

Join Twitch’s Memberships team within the Commerce Engineering organization, where we’re building rewarding experiences allowing creators to make a living doing what they love. We’re the team behind our continuous patronage features including channel Subscriptions, Gifting, and Turbo.

As a member of our team, you’ll work alongside our highly engaged and collaborative team to design, build and maintain systems that scale to millions of concurrent users. We actively seek to improve our experiences and are looking for members that are passionate about our end users.

You Will:

• Work with product managers, designers, technical leads, and other engineers to design, develop, launch, and operate interactive experiences and products
• Work backwards from customer problems to drive business impact
• Create interactive experiences that are rewarding for both viewers and creators 
• Architect and build robust, scalable applications that can handle millions of concurrent users
  Participate in Operational Excellence work to maintain and support our live services

You Have:

• Experience developing software in a professional environment
• Prior experience building consumer-facing products at scale
• Proficient coding skills in modern languages and frameworks such as Go, React, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C etc
• Proven ability with thinking though and delivering quality user experiences.
• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Bonus Points

• Experience with languages/frameworks we use at Twitch: React, Typescript, Golang
• Experience building software and services using AWS technologies such as ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions
• Experience working with mobile development, either native or hybrid
• Familiarity with Twitch, gaming, and/or streaming on Twitch

Perks

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.  

Job ID: TW9323