Software Engineer

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers, with more than 100 million visitors per month. We connect gamers from around the world by allowing them to broadcast, watch, and chat with each other. Twitch’s live and on-demand video platform forms the backbone of a distribution network for video game broadcasters including pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations.

• Our chat system, which supports millions of concurrent users
• Our video distribution system, which is one of the largest in the world
• Elegant, highly-available web services to support one of our many front end platforms
• Front end web engineering that is functional, beautiful, and delightful
• Building applications for one of the many non-web platforms we support, including iOS, Android, XBox 360, XBox One, and Playstation 4
• Building new features that millions of users will be seeing
• Helping build robust deployment tools to help us move forward rapidly
• Building great tools that lets us support our customers and partners

• Professional software development experience, the more the better
• You don’t need a degree, but you should know how engineering works in the real world.
• Proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Javascript, Ruby, Python, Go, or C++
• A strong knowledge of internet and web technology fundamentals
• Experience working in agile development teams
• Experience working on complex, multi-layer applications
• A passion for games or other interactive media