Senior Software Developer (Nova)

At 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.

About the Role

Vidyard is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join our innovative Nova Team, a pivotal force behind our cutting-edge AI Avatar feature and experimental functionalities. As a key player in this team, you will contribute to the development and enhancement of our AI video creation capabilities, enabling users to easily create AI videos of themselves and others by providing just a text script. This role is instrumental in shaping the advanced features and experimental projects that define Vidyard's offerings to our valued customers.

Reporting directly to the Software Development Manager, you'll collaborate with a cross-functional team of developers, a designer, and a product manager to address customer challenges and deliver exceptional software solutions.

This is a remote role open to candidates located in Canada.

About the Team

Our Nova Team is composed of five developers, a designer, a product manager, and a software development manager. We are dedicated to creating and enhancing Vidyard’s AI Avatar feature, continually improving and expanding its functionality. Additionally, we are focused on implementing more experimental features into our product in the future.

What You’ll Bring to this Role and Your New Team :

• A solid background in software engineering—you have had 6+ years of experience shipping user-facing, scalable web products.
• The ability to work across the software stack as a generalist while bringing experience to either front-end or back-end development.
• Proven ability to make informed architectural decisions and contribute to the overall technical strategy.
• Strong documentation skills, with a commitment to maintaining clear and comprehensive technical documentation.
• Proficiency with AWS services, including S3, Lambda, SQS, and other related technologies.
• A history of success delivering on different initiatives in an agile, iterative environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills—you strive for clarity and understanding and can navigate discussions around risks and tradeoffs.
• The desire to drive improvements to our quality, reliability, and performance standards.
• Lean thinking and an experimental, metrics-driven mindset.
• A high tolerance for ambiguity and a recognition that action is sometimes the best path to discovery.
• Eager to share knowledge among other senior - staff level developers and mentor junior and intermediate developers on your team.
• Experience with video effects and ffmpeg are a plus.
• Familiarity with AI and machine learning technologies is a plus.

Our Tech Stack

Our 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.

Job descriptions can be overwhelming. At Vidyard we are motivated to drive change together  and deeply value the unique experiences, abilities and opinions you possess. We value candidates who  own it,  and if you’re  relentlessly resourceful  too, you might be exactly who we are looking for.

As 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.

What You’ll Love about Vidyard :

We 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.

Vidyard is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to complete the application and / or interview process should notify us at .