Software Engineer I, Twitch Chat

Twitch; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 127,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Parental leave

Flexible PTO

Employee discount

Job summary

Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, where communities come together around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, and more. On our Application Experiences team, you’ll improve app performance, especially on mobile, and support Twitch Chat across large-scale services.

This frontend role is primarily React-focused but expects fullstack contributions to backend systems. You will work with product managers, technical leads, and engineers to design, develop, launch, and operate

Qualifications

• 1+ year of professional software development experience.
• Experience building consumer-facing products at scale.
• Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent required.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, launch, and operate interactive experiences.
• Investigate, instrument and solve performance problems.
• Build distributed applications at scale.
• Collaborate with team and related teams to solve problems.
• Work backwards from customer problems to drive business impact.

Skills

React

Frontend development

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Kotlin

Swift

Objective-C

Typescript

AWS

Job description

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 Team

The Application Experiences org builds products that help communities connect with each other, and ways for viewers to find and interact with their favourite content. We are exploring how we can evolve the mobile experience, as well as deliver performant and delightful experiences across mobile and web.

About The Role

On our team you’ll be primarily working to improve our Application Performance, making our mobile experiences faster. We also own and support Twitch Chat, you’ll be working with large-scale services and partnering with other teams at Twitch regularly. This position is primarily focused on frontend development (React) but is expected to be fullstack, with some responsibilities around supporting and maintaining backend systems.

You Will:

• Work with product managers, technical leads, and other engineers to design, develop, launch, and operate interactive experiences
• Investigate, instrument and solve performance problems
• Build distributed applications at scale
• Collaborate with both your team and related teams - fostering shared understanding of how to solve common problems and deliver solutions
• Work backwards from customer problems to drive business impact

You Have:

• 1+ Years 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 React, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C etc
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure
• Experience with languages/frameworks we use at Twitch: React, Typescript, Golang
• Experience with mobile development (although, this is not a mobile development role)
• Experience building software and services using AWS technologies such as ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions
• 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.

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

Job ID: TW9130

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

US, CA, San Francisco

$127,100—$185,000 USD

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