Software Engineer I, Twitch Chat
Amazon
Description
If you are interested in this position, please apply on Twitch's Career site https://www.twitch.tv/jobs/en/
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 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
Perks
* Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
* 401(k)
* Maternity & Parental Leave
* Flexible PTO
* Amazon Employee Discount
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.