Staff Software Developer

Vidyard is the video platform that's built for business. Sales reps, marketers, and corporate communicators use Vidyard to record and share videos that grab attention and deliver their message in a personal, impactful way. It's the video tool of choice for 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 looking for a Staff Software Developer to join our Development team. Reporting to the VP of Software Development, you’ll work with a cross functional team consisting of developers, designers and product managers to solve customer problems and deliver amazing software.

About the Team

This Staff Software Developer role will support our Idea Labs team which is focused on new, experimental products within the Vidyard product portfolio which target uncharted territory beyond Vidyard’s core product scope. On this team, you’ll have the opportunity to work on projects which include high usage of third party AI systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and be on the lookout for new emerging tools & technologies to give us a competitive edge!

Idea Labs, the team that launched Vidyard Prospector, is currently working on bringing personalized AI content at scale to Vidyard’s user base.

This role is open to folks who are currently located and eligible to work in Canada.

What You’ll Work On

• Designing, building and scaling distributed systems
• Leading architecture design + documentation for upcoming projects
• Designing and architecting core services; developing internal tools and maintaining repositories
• Contributing code to projects, reviewing and testing code while ensuring security standards are at the forefront of development
• Pushing large technical initiatives forward and thinking strategically about our platform
• Mentoring and knowledge sharing across all levels of development
• Supporting and collaborating with a cross functional team consisting of developers, designers and product managers to solve customer problems and deliver amazing software
• Building observability + resilience around third-party integrations
• Setting up Automated Testing (unit, integration, e2e)
• Dealing with authentication / authorization / security within distributed systems
• Delivering software with an Iterative approach, experience running experiments & updating designs / deliverables based on results
• Implementation of monitoring / alerting, using feedback loops to understand system performance
• Mastering our large areas of relevant codebase to provide technical leadership to the teams that work in those areas
• Learning and applying new technologies to relentlessly drive developers, and our platform, forward

What You’ll Bring to this Role and Your Team

Technical Skills We’re Targeting :

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 :

Vidyard is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to complete the application and / or interview process should notify us at . Unsolicited resumes from Agencies will not be accepted.