\nAt Vidyard, we make life easier for sellers, marketers and corporate communicators. Our video messaging tools, AI tools, and other products are used by Microsoft, LinkedIn, and thousands of other companies. We’re passionate about elevating our customers, our teammates, our communities, and ourselves.\nAbout the Role\n\nVidyard is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join our dynamic Core Team, a pivotal force behind our leading video platform and user experience. As a key player in this team, you will take ownership of critical services, including encoding, dashboard, chrome extension, mobile app, captions, thumbnails, and AI integrations. This role is instrumental in shaping the core features and functionality that define Vidyard's offerings to our valued customers.\n\nReporting directly to the Software Development Manager, you'll collaborate with a cross-functional team of developers, designers, and product managers to address customer challenges and deliver exceptional software solutions. \n\nThis is a remote role open to candidates located in Canada. \nAbout the Team\n\nOur Core Team is composed of ten developers, a product manager, and a designer divided into 2 streams of work:\n\nScale Stream: The Scale Stream takes charge of our enterprise accounts, meticulously curating the features and functionalities essential for our corporate customers and partners. This team is focused on ensuring our product meets and exceeds the unique requirements of our enterprise accounts, empowering them with innovative AI functionalities to increase efficiency of their sales cycle.\n\nTech Stream: At the heart of our Core Team's responsibilities lies the Tech Stream, which takes ownership of a substantial portion of our application. This stream is tasked with spearheading projects to guarantee the performance, quality, availability, and scalability demanded by our system and valued customers.\n\nWe are currently hiring for the Scale Stream!\nWhat You’ll Bring to this Role and Your New Team:\n\n\n* A solid background in software engineering—you have had 6+ years of experience shipping user-facing, scalable web products.\n\n* The ability to work across the software stack as a generalist while bringing experience to either front-end or back-end development.\n\n* A history of success delivering on different initiatives in an agile, iterative environment.\n\n* Strong communication and collaboration skills—you strive for clarity and understanding and can navigate discussions around risks and tradeoffs.\n\n* The desire to drive improvements to our quality, reliability, and performance standards.\n\n* Lean thinking and an experimental, metrics-driven mindset.\n\n* A high tolerance for ambiguity and a recognition that action is sometimes the best path to discovery.\n\n* Eager to share knowledge among other senior - staff level developers and mentor junior and intermediate developers on your team.\n\n* Bonus if you have previous experience with Generative AI or AI tooling.\n\n\n\nOur Tech Stack\n\n\n* Version control - e.g. Git\n\n* Testing frameworks such as RSpec, Jest, Mocha\n\n* Modern front-end stacks - e.g. Vue.js, React.js\n\n* Server technologies such as Node.js and Ruby on Rails\n\n* Relational Databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL\n\n* Nice to have experience architecting microservice infrastructures \n\n* Distributed computing concerns such as message queues and pub/sub\n\n* Operational concerns such as monitoring and logging\n\n\n\n\nOur engineering team consists of generalists with expertise leaning toward either front-end or back-end development, all maintaining a comprehensive understanding of the full stack. Join us in shaping the future of Vidyard's core offerings and delivering unparalleled value to our customers.\n\n \nJob descriptions can be overwhelming. At Vidyard we are motivated to drive change together and deeply value the unique experiences, abilities and opinions you possess, so if this role sounds like your next adventure, but you don’t feel entirely qualified, apply! We value candidates who own it, and if you’re relentlessly resourceful too, you might be exactly who we are looking for.\n\nAs we also value user obsession, we prioritize our users, customers and community so you can expect to hear from our team even if you are not selected to move forward.\nWhat You’ll Love about Vidyard:\n\nCompetitive pay\n\nComprehensive, flexible benefits on day one\n\nWellness allowance to spend on what’s important to you\n\nFlexible hours + unlimited vacation + programs to support travel while working, enabling you to live your best life\n\nAccess to Inkblot, a digital mental health platform + $1,500/person/year for mental health coverage\n\nAllowance to support your ongoing growth and development\n\nParental leave top-up\n\nPaid volunteer hours\n\nEmployee resource groups to empower and drive change at Vidyard and in our communities\n\nRRSP match\n\nStock options\n\nFlexible holiday program\n\nHome office stipend\n\nFlexibility to work in the place that brings out your best: whether you thrive in the comfort of your home office, or are local to, and prefer the energy of our collaboration space in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, there is flexibility for all.  Although we default to remote-first there will be occasional in-person meetings/events purposefully designed for connection and collaboration.\n\n\n\nWe thank all applicants for your interest in Vidyard. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Unsolicited resumes from Agencies will not be accepted.\nVidyard is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to complete the application and/or interview process should notify us at [email protected]. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Designer, Travel, Video, Ruby, Mobile, Senior, Junior and Sales jobs that are similar:\n\n $52,500 — $102,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nToronto, Ontario, Canada