Software Engineer, Player

JW Player

(New York, New York)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About JW Player

Jeroen "JW" Wijering was a student in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in 2005 when he took up programming. One of his first late-night creations was a small piece of open-source software that enables images and sound to play on the Internet. Jeroen was still in college when his product became the basis for YouTube, which relied on JW Player until it was acquired by Google.

Summary

JW Player is the world's most widely-adopted web video player, generating more than 15 billion video streams a month. We're looking for a JavaScript programmer to join a world-class team of front-end software engineers dedicated to building cutting-edge features while maintaining our best-in-class performance.

Responsibilities
  • Contribute to the development of the JW video player
  • Design and build cross-platform components using the latest web technologies
  • Develop technical specifications and take ownership over product releases
  • Work on a cross-functional team to define business requirements and set product direction
  • Contribute to and work across many different projects and technologies, as needed
Ideal Candidate
  • B.S. degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical field
  • 3+ years of practical experience in web development
  • Expertise and interest in JavaScript development
  • Comfortable reading and reviewing other's’ code, and having your work reviewed
  • Motivated, self-starter who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment

Bonus Points

  • Git, Grunt, CommonJS/AMD, ES6/2015, W3C, Node and/or ActionScript
  • Experience with web video, 3rd party advertising or analytics
  • Experience programming devices like Chromecast, Roku or Fire TV Stick

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New York, New York
Skills Desired
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  • JavaScript
  • Web Development
  • ActionScript
  • Git
  • Node.js
  • W3C Widget API
  • Computer Science
  • Grunt
  • ECMAScript 6
  • JW Player

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