Company Overview:

At Praetorian, our vision is to create a future without compromise and our mission is to prevent breaches before they occur. By emulating attackers, we uncover the materials risks that lead to compromise before hackers are aware they exist. From cryptocurrency exchanges to autonomous vehicles and from medical device platforms to space telescopes, we leverage offensive security to instill a prevention first strategy in our customers. Checkout our new hire survival guide for more information on Praetorian's mission, vision, values, and culture.

Career opportunity:

• Work in a modern stack in AWS, DynamoDB, Golang, Lambda, SQS
• Join an industry with massive societal, economic, and political importance in the 21st century
• Work alongside some of the best and the brightest minds in the security industry 
• Leave an indelible mark on a company where individual input has a real impact
• Align your career trajectory with a hyper-growth company that is on the move

Core responsibilities:

• Design, build, and test backend microservice software in Golang
• Write clean and scalable code with automated tests
• Backend engineers, as a team, run the production systems
• Provide technical leadership for an agile engineering team
• Mentor engineers on architecture, coding craft, infrastructure, and operations

Top skills we are looking for:

• Problem solving
• Design and coding
• Golang expertise
• Experience scaling up systems
• Systems expertise: distributed systems, databases, and infrastructure

Desired Qualifications:

• At least 10 years professional experience writing enterprise grade software
• Deep experience with Golang
• Deep experience with large-scale distributed systems
• Proven experience in operating production software
• Experience with microservice, event-driven, and multi-tenant architectures
• Bachelors in computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, or related fields

Desired behaviors:

• End-to-end ownership on problems
• Ability to maintain high levels of output and work ethic
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity in an environment where we build the plane as we fly it
• Pragmatic program solving
• Personable individual who enjoys working in a team-oriented environment
• Obsession with addressing customer problems

• Experience a highly competitive salary that recognizes and rewards your unique talents and contributions.
• Benefit from an Employee Stock Option Plan that lets you share in the growth and success of our company.
• Enjoy an annual budget dedicated to training, certifications, and conferences, empowering you to expand your skills and knowledge.
• Receive access to top-tier medical plans, ensuring you and your family's health and well-being are always a top priority.
• Secure your future with our 4% company 401K matching, available to you from day one, committed to your long-term financial well-being.

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 Senior Software Developerto join our Accounts & Billingteam. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will be a key part of the team responsible for our critical Account and Billing platforms! Through your technical mentorship and leadership capabilities, you will play an important role in supporting the team to thrive while working cross functionally with our product and design teams to ensure our users are able to achieve their goals and seamlessly navigate our pricing and packaging opportunities.

This position is available to candidates located in Canada.

About the Team

Our engineering team consists of over 50 developers across multiple product streams. Each team owns a key portion of our experience. We are passionate about creating awesome products and making Vidyard an amazing place to grow and ship.

The Accounts & Billing team focuses on developing and optimizing the core systems and services that support permissions, accounts, and billing functionalities across Vidyard's applications and services. Our role is to deliver scalable and extensible platforms, enabling other teams to efficiently iterate on our existing products as well as easily launch and monetize new products.

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.

Our Tech Stack

• Version control - e.g. Git
• Testing frameworks such as RSpec, Jest, Mocha
• Modern front-end stacks - e.g. Vue.js, React.js
• Modern mobile frameworks - React Native
• Server technologies such as Node.js and Ruby on Rails
• Relational Databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Nice to have experience architecting microservice infrastructures 
• Distributed computing concerns such as message queues and pub/sub
• Operational concerns such as monitoring and logging

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 togetherand 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:

• Competitive pay
• Comprehensive, flexible benefits on day one
• Wellness allowance to spend on what's important to you 
• Flexible hours + unlimited vacation + programs to support travel while working, enabling you to live your best life
• Access to Inkblot, a digital mental health platform + $1,500/person/year for mental health coverage
• Allowance to support your ongoing growth and development
• Parental leave top-up
• Paid volunteer hours
• Employee resource groups to empower and drive change at Vidyard and in our communities
• RRSP match
• Stock options
• Flexible holiday program
• Home office stipend 
• Flexibility 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.

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

The salary range for this role is $4,600 - $8,500 per month (Gross in USD) 

About Sezzle:

With a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We’re not just transforming payments; we’re redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we’re building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you’re excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping!

Compensation:

For this senior development role, with 8+ years of experience, the compensation range is $4,600 - $8,500 USD per month. This range acknowledges the extensive expertise, leadership capabilities, and significant contributions expected at this level, offering a competitive salary to reflect the value of advanced skills and experience.

About the Role: 

We are seeking a talented and motivated Senior Software Engineer who is best in class with a high IQ plus a high EQ. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement.

As a Senior Software Engineer with Sezzle, you will work with a highly-motivated team to tackle interesting and challenging problems across multiple areas of the organization. Your experience and guidance will help other members of the team level-up their own skills as well.

In this backend focused role, you will work closely with stakeholders from Product, Support and the business. You’ll also partner with other engineering teams to provide high-quality, scalable, and innovative solutions to internal and customer problems. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include designing, developing, and delivering new features, as well as unblocking and mentoring your teammates.

This role has both an internal and external focus, your contributions will make a meaningful difference in the day-to-day lives of your peers at Sezzle, enhancing their ability to support our business and customers, and you will have opportunities to take any feedback and iterate.

Key Role Responsibilities: 

• Design software applications and features in Golang and React
• Help build out a distributed architecture, creating solutions that work within it, maintaining consistency while scaling highly
• Coordinate with internal company stakeholders to design market winning products
• Develop and collect metrics to drive continuous improvement of existing products
• Deliver high quality features which can be tested and adheres to reporting standards
• As needed, lead small development teams to bring a project to market
• Mentor other engineering teammates to help elevate their experience and knowledge

Minimum Requirements: 

• At least 7 years of full-stack software engineering experience
• Experience bringing new ideas and building consensus on the path forward
• Experience with building and serving REST APIs using Go and Java Python or a similar language.
• Experience working in a distributed, cloud-based architecture, with either design patterns like transactional outboxes, or queuing tools like RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka
• BS in Computer Science or similar degree, or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience with SQL based RDMS through an ORM tool
• Comfortable using observability platforms like Prometheus, or vendor solutions like NewRelic or Datadog to instrument your code for production monitoring and alerting.
• DevOps experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with containerized micro-service architecture deployed with Kubernetes on AWS
• Demonstrated history of delivering commercial APIs and web applications
• A clear record of getting products to market and prioritizing solutions and improvements based on stakeholder/customer feedback.

About You: 

• You have relentlessly high standards - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You’re not bound by convention - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
• You need action - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
• You earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit- you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results- you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.

Sezzle’s Technology Stack:

• Languages:Golang, Typescript, Python
• Frontend:Typescript - React and React Native
• Backend:Golang
• Database:MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch
• DevOps & Cloud:AWS, Kubernetes
• Version Control:Git
• CI/CD:Gitlab
• Testing:Developer-driven, focus on automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Sezzle is focused on using open source, and we build what we can before buying!

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome? 

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire. 

#Li-remote

About the Role: 

By applying to this position you have an incredible opportunity to make an impact within a growing FinTech company. As a Senior Software Engineer with Sezzle, you will work with a highly-motivated team to tackle interesting and challenging problems across multiple areas of the organization. Your experience and guidance will help other members of the team level-up their own skills as well.

In this backend focused role, you will work closely with stakeholders from Product, Support and the business. You’ll also partner with other engineering teams to provide high-quality, scalable, and innovative solutions to internal and customer problems. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include designing, developing, and delivering new features, as well as unblocking and mentoring your teammates.

This role has both an internal and external focus, your contributions will make a meaningful difference in the day-to-day lives of your peers at Sezzle, enhancing their ability to support our business and customers, and you will have opportunities to take any feedback and iterate.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Design software applications and features in Golang and React
• Help build out a distributed architecture, creating solutions that work within it, maintaining consistency while scaling highly
• Coordinate with internal company stakeholders to design market winning products
• Develop and collect metrics to drive continuous improvement of existing products
• Deliver high quality features which can be tested and adheres to reporting standards
• As needed, lead small development teams to bring a project to market
• Mentor other engineering teammates to help elevate their experience and knowledge

Minimum Requirements

• At least 7 years of full-stack software engineering experience
• Experience bringing new ideas and building consensus on the path forward
• Experience with building and serving REST APIs using Go and Java Python or a similar language.
• Experience working in a distributed, cloud-based architecture, with either design patterns like transactional outboxes, or queuing tools like RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka
• BS in Computer Science or similar degree, or equivalent work experience.

Ideal Skills & Experience (the more the better)

• Experience with SQL based RDMS through an ORM tool
• Comfortable using observability platforms like Prometheus, or vendor solutions like NewRelic or Datadog to instrument your code for production monitoring and alerting.
• DevOps experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with containerized micro-service architecture deployed with Kubernetes on AWS
• Demonstrated history of delivering commercial APIs and web applications
• A clear record of getting products to market and prioritizing solutions and improvements based on stakeholder/customer feedback.

About You: 

• A+ character. We are team-first here at Sezzle. 
• A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build. 
• An excellent communicator. 
• A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things. 
• Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others. 

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome?

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire. 

Equal Employment Opportunity: Sezzle Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other legally protected status. Sezzle recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting our mission.

Compensation:

For this senior development role, with 8+ years of experience, the compensation range is $4,600 - $7,500 USD per month. This range acknowledges the extensive expertise, leadership capabilities, and significant contributions expected at this level, offering a competitive salary to reflect the value of advanced skills and experience.

#Li-remote

The salary range for this role is $4,600 - $8,500 per month (Gross in USD) 

About Sezzle:

With a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible. We’re not just transforming payments; we’re redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values. As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we’re building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey. If you’re excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping!

Compensation:

For this senior development role, with 8+ years of experience, the compensation range is $4,600 - $8,500 USD per month. This range acknowledges the extensive expertise, leadership capabilities, and significant contributions expected at this level, offering a competitive salary to reflect the value of advanced skills and experience.

About the Role: 

We are seeking a talented and motivated Senior Software Engineer who is best in class with a high IQ plus a high EQ. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement.

As a Senior Software Engineer with Sezzle, you will work with a highly-motivated team to tackle interesting and challenging problems across multiple areas of the organization. Your experience and guidance will help other members of the team level-up their own skills as well.

In this backend focused role, you will work closely with stakeholders from Product, Support and the business. You’ll also partner with other engineering teams to provide high-quality, scalable, and innovative solutions to internal and customer problems. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include designing, developing, and delivering new features, as well as unblocking and mentoring your teammates.

This role has both an internal and external focus, your contributions will make a meaningful difference in the day-to-day lives of your peers at Sezzle, enhancing their ability to support our business and customers, and you will have opportunities to take any feedback and iterate.

Key Role Responsibilities: 

• Design software applications and features in Golang and React
• Help build out a distributed architecture, creating solutions that work within it, maintaining consistency while scaling highly
• Coordinate with internal company stakeholders to design market winning products
• Develop and collect metrics to drive continuous improvement of existing products
• Deliver high quality features which can be tested and adheres to reporting standards
• As needed, lead small development teams to bring a project to market
• Mentor other engineering teammates to help elevate their experience and knowledge

Minimum Requirements: 

• At least 7 years of full-stack software engineering experience
• Experience bringing new ideas and building consensus on the path forward
• Experience with building and serving REST APIs using Go and Java Python or a similar language.
• Experience working in a distributed, cloud-based architecture, with either design patterns like transactional outboxes, or queuing tools like RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka
• BS in Computer Science or similar degree, or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience with SQL based RDMS through an ORM tool
• Comfortable using observability platforms like Prometheus, or vendor solutions like NewRelic or Datadog to instrument your code for production monitoring and alerting.
• DevOps experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with containerized micro-service architecture deployed with Kubernetes on AWS
• Demonstrated history of delivering commercial APIs and web applications
• A clear record of getting products to market and prioritizing solutions and improvements based on stakeholder/customer feedback.

About You: 

• You have relentlessly high standards - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You’re not bound by convention - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
• You need action - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
• You earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit- you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results- you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.

Sezzle’s Technology Stack:

• Languages:Golang, Typescript, Python
• Frontend:Typescript - React and React Native
• Backend:Golang
• Database:MySQL, Postgres, Elasticsearch
• DevOps & Cloud:AWS, Kubernetes
• Version Control:Git
• CI/CD:Gitlab
• Testing:Developer-driven, focus on automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Sezzle is focused on using open source, and we build what we can before buying!

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome? 

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire. 

#Li-remote

Who are Tide:

At Tide, we’re on a mission to save businesses time and money. We’re the leading provider of UK SME business accounts and one of the fastest-growing FinTechs in the UK. Using the latest tech, we design solutions with SMEs in mind and our member-driven financial platform is  transforming the business banking market. Not only do we offer our members business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly connected admin tools for businesses. 

Tide is about doing what you love. We’re looking for someone tojoin us on our exciting scale up journey and be a part of something special. We are wanting passionate Tideans to drive innovation and help build a best-in-class platform to support our members. You will be comfortable in ambiguous situations and will be able to navigate the evolving FinTech environment. Imagine shaping how millions of Tide members discover and engage with business banking platforms and building this on a global scale.

What we’re looking for:

As aSenior Engineerat Tide you will be working on new and existing projects for our Payments area. We have a long roadmap ahead of us, with exciting new features and you’ll be solving interesting problems while collaborating with the rest of the Tide team to achieve our mission to save small and medium businesses time and money.

With our expanding business, we will encourage you to outgrow your initial responsibilities, if you so desire. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to make a real difference by taking ownership of engineering practices in a rapidly expanding company!

Technology and our people are what make Tide possible. We work in autonomous teams, self-organise, discuss technical challenges, and set our own guidelines in the different Community of Practices.

On the backend we see Java 8 as legacy and use Java 11+ for our micro-services. We provide RESTful APIs to our colleagues in the frontend. Spring Boot is our work horse, but we are open to new experiments. We are cloud-native and run everything on AWS. You’ll see containers (Docker), queues (SNS+SQS, Kafka) and events everywhere. The nature of our business naturally fits with relational databases, but we have also found some use cases for NoSQL. Our frontends have done an incredible job at consuming our APIs and providing the best UX to our members. They are native Android and iOS apps or Angular 2+ web apps. The Cloud Engineering team provides us with vital infrastructure and DevOps support on the cloud.

As a Senior Backend Engineer you’ll be:

• Working on projects for the Payment area solving interesting challenges and problems that will save small business time and money globally.
• You will be the person who less experienced engineers turn to when seeking advice and the one that ensures that things get done with a professional seal of quality.
• Joining one of our expanding multidisciplinary agile teams, you will work closely with product owners, mobile engineers, and other business members to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions.
• You will ideally join our backend community of practices and your input on how to improve processes and maintain a high quality across the backend will be very welcomed. Career progression is as important to us as it is for you!

What makes you a great fit:

• Have experience (5+ years) building server-side applications and detailed knowledge of the relevant programming languages for your stack (i.e Java 8 or newer).
• Have sound knowledge of a Java backend framework (e.g. Spring/Spring Boot).
• Have experience with microservices and implementing and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Have experience engineering scalable and reliable solutions.
• Demonstrate a mindset of delivering secure, well-tested and well-documented software.
• Are willing to own your code and your team’s processes from development to production.
• Have experience with relational databases.
• Are comfortable working in agile methodologies, ideally Scrum.
• Have the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Have experience integrating to third parties.
• Have exposure to continuous integration, delivery and deployment.
• Have experience leading and coaching of technical staff.

What you’ll get in return: 

Make work, work for you! We are embracing new ways of working and support flexible working arrangements. With our Working Out of Office (WOO) policy our colleagues can work remotely from home or anywhere in their home country. Additionally, you can work from a different country for up to 90 days a year. Plus, you’ll get:

• Competitive salary 
• Self & Family Health Insurance
• Term & Life Insurance
• OPD Benefits
• Mental wellbeing through Plumm
• Learning & Development Budget
• WFH Setup allowance
• 25 Annual leaves
• Family & Friendly Leaves

Tidean Ways of Working 

At Tide, we’re Member First and Data Driven, but above all, we’re One Team. Our Working Out of Office (WOO) policy allows you to work from anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year. We are remote first, but when you do want to meet new people, collaborate with your team or simply hang out with your colleagues, our offices are always available and equipped to the highest standard. We offer flexible working hours and trust our employees to do their work well, at times that suit them and their team.

Tide is a place for everyone

At Tide, we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture. Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels. We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status. We believe it’s what makes us awesome at solving problems! We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment, where everyone’s voice is heard.

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 inCanada.

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

• Version control - e.g. Git
• Testing frameworks such as RSpec, Jest, Mocha
• Modern front-end stacks - e.g. Vue.js, React.js
• Modern mobile frameworks - React Native
• Server technologies such as Node.js and Ruby on Rails
• Relational Databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Nice to have experience architecting microservice infrastructures 
• Distributed computing concerns such as message queues and pub/sub
• Operational concerns such as monitoring and logging

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.

What You’ll Love about Vidyard:

• Competitive pay
• Comprehensive, flexible benefits on day one
• Wellness allowance to spend on what’s important to you
• Flexible hours + unlimited vacation + programs to support travel while working, enabling you to live your best life
• Access to Inkblot, a digital mental health platform + $1,500/person/year for mental health coverage
• Allowance to support your ongoing growth and development
• Parental leave top-up
• Paid volunteer hours
• Employee resource groups to empower and drive change at Vidyard and in our communities
• RRSP match
• Stock options
• Flexible holiday program
• Home office stipend
• Flexibility 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.