Software Engineer (Video Player)

Genius Sports; Medellín; Presencial; COP 113.357.264 - 264.500.283; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary

Support for employee wellbeing

Career growth opportunities

Descripción de la vacante

Genius Sports is seeking a Software Engineer specialized in video player development in Medellín, Colombia. This role involves building and maintaining video playback solutions, focusing on performance and viewer experience. Candidates should have experience with lower-level software development and video technologies, preferably in browsers, along with knowledge in 3D graphics. Benefits include competitive salary and support for career development.

Formación

• Experience with lower-level software development.
• Experience with video in the browser.
• Experience with 3D or games graphics in the browser.

Responsabilidades

• Build and maintain the video player with a focus on playback performance.
• Contribute to broadcast augmentation features.
• Develop tools for the content team.

Conocimientos

Lower-level software development

Video playback in browsers

3D or games graphics in browsers

Herramientas

JavaScript

Rust

Descripción del empleo

The Role – Software Engineer (Video Player)

You’ll be responsible for building, maintaining, and hardening our video player, with a strong focus on playback performance, rendering, integrations, and overall viewer experience. You’ll also contribute to broadcast augmentation features and the development tools used by our content team. Over time, there will be opportunities to expand your impact into our video processing pipeline and our content and augmentation engines.

What You Will Use Day To Day

You should expect to work in JavaScript and Rust almost every day, with some tasks needing other languages. The balance shifts by task (browser and player code, transcoder and augmentation-related tooling, API). You will predominantly work around video and augmentation.

Qualifications

• Experience with lower-level software development
• Experience with video, ideally in the browser (for example streaming, timing, latency, encrypted playback)
• Experience with three-dimensional or games graphics, ideally in the browser

Preferred Qualifications

• Streaming or transcoding experience
• Sport graphics
• Automated quality assurance for media content

Benefits

As well as a competitive salary and range of benefits, we’re committed to supporting employee wellbeing and helping you grow your skills, experience and career.

Let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability.