Backend Engineer (Video REST API / Streaming Platform Focus)

Selly Cloud Solutions Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company in Singapore is seeking a developer proficient in Go or Java to design and develop video streaming REST APIs. Responsibilities include managing API features and supporting various streaming protocols. The ideal candidate will have experience with AWS and containerization technologies. This role offers the chance to work on innovative streaming solutions.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go or Java required.
• Strong expertise in RESTful API design and best practices essential.
• Experience with cloud platforms AWS and containerization needed.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop video streaming REST APIs for varied applications.
• Implement security and management features for the APIs.
• Support and manage multiple streaming protocols effectively.

Skills

Proficiency in Go

Proficiency in Java

RESTful API design

Understanding of streaming protocols

Experience with PostgreSQL

Experience with MySQL

Experience with Redis

Familiarity with Kafka

Familiarity with RabbitMQ

Experience with AWS

Experience with Docker

Experience with Kubernetes

Knowledge of Grafana

Knowledge of Prometheus

Experience with Jest

Experience with Mocha

Familiarity with GitHub Actions

Experience with Jenkins

Job description

Selly Cloud Solutions Pte Ltd – Central Singapore

Responsibilities

• Design and develop video streaming REST APIs (live streaming, video-on-demand, advertising, analytics)
• Implement JWT authentication, version management, rate limiting, and Webhook notifications
• Develop video ingestion, transcoding, and multi-bitrate streaming modules
• Support various streaming protocols: HLS, RTMP, SRT, WebRTC
• Build playback data analytics and monitoring systems
• Manage cloud deployment, scaling, and performance optimization

Requirements

• Proficiency in Go/Java
• Strong expertise in RESTful API design and best practices
• Understanding of protocols such as HLS/DASH/RTMP/SRT/WebRTC
• Experience with databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Redis)
• Familiarity with distributed systems and message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ/SQS)
• Experience with cloud platforms AWS (S3, CloudFront, ECS/EKS) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of logging and monitoring systems (Grafana/Prometheus/ELK)
• Experience with unit testing and CI/CD pipelines (Jest/Mocha/GitHub Actions/Jenkins)

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with platforms such as Wowza/Mux/Agora/Livepeer
• Knowledge of FFmpeg/GStreamer transcoding
• Experience with API gateways/microservices (Kong/Traefik/Nginx)
• Background in analytics and visualization systems