Twitch is looking to empower live communities by building innovative discovery experiences, and this role is focused on leading the development of software and services that power critical discovery features such as recommendations, search, feed ranking, and notification relevance.
Requirements
- Development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages such as: Golang, Python, C/C++, Java
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scalability) of new and existing systems
- Experience developing and running large-scale consumer services
- Familiarity in the AWS ecosystem of service
- Experience utilizing Agile development methodologies
- Experience building or partnering to build ML-driven products
- Experience working with logging and both offline and online data pipelines
Responsibilities
- Build the systems that provide the critical connection between viewers and creators within the Twitch ecosystem
- Design and run consumer-scale services powering recommendations, ranking, and search results for tens of millions of users a day
- Power and enable ML applications at scale
- Partner with applied scientists and other engineering teams to design ML-powered systems that effectively solve customer problems
- Drive the professional growth and career advancement of team members through structured development planning, mentorship, and strategic talent management
- Partner with stakeholders across the company integrating recommendations into their product features
- Oversee the development of software and services that power critical discovery features
Other
- BA/BS in computer science or equivalent industry experience
- 3+ years of experience as software engineering manager
- 5+ years of working in software engineering
- Proven ability to identify user needs and deliver customer-centric product solutions
- Experience in hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of software engineers
