Staff Software Developer, Platform

Posted Jul 6

At Vidyard, we make life easier for sellers, marketers and corporate communicators. Our video messaging tools, digital sales room platform, 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 looking for a Staff Software Developer to join our Platform team. Reporting to the Director of Platform & Infrastructure, your contributions will have a meaningful impact on the company’s success as you lead, mentor, and influence cross functional teams across engineering in building secure and scalable services. We are looking for someone with a broad range of knowledge and skills on software development with a deep expertise in cloud infrastructure from your experience leading these efforts in the past.

This is a remote position available to candidates located in Canada.

About the Team

Our engineering team consists of over 70 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 Platform team’s focus is on optimizing the foundational and cross-cutting elements of our product and internal development to enhance the efficacy of developer experience on the platform.

As a Staff Software Developer You Can Expect to:

  • Work with a cross functional team consisting of developers, designers and product managers to solve customer problems and deliver amazing software. 
  • Mentor senior and intermediate developers.
  • Contribute code to projects, review code, and have a large engineering wide impact doing things such as architecting core services, developing internal tools, maintaining repositories, and leading technology guilds.
  • Master our large areas of relevant codebase to provide technical leadership to the teams that work in those areas
  • Push large technical initiatives forward and think strategically about our platform.
  • Learn and apply new technologies to relentlessly drive developers, and our platform, forward.

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

  • A solid background in software engineering—you have had 8+ years of experience building scalable web products.
  • A high tolerance for ambiguity and a recognition that action is sometimes the best path to discovery.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills—you strive for clarity and understanding, and you can navigate discussions around risks and tradeoffs.
  • The desire to drive improvements to our standards of quality, reliability, and performance.
  • Lean thinking and an experimental, metrics-driven mindset.
  • Eagerness to knowledge share among other senior - staff level developers and provide mentorship to all developers across the organization.
  • You can break down complex problems rigorously and understand the tradeoffs necessary to deliver great, impactful solutions.

Our Tech Stack

  • AWS Cloud Infrastructure and services
  • Infrastructure as Code tooling - Terraform
  • Version control - Git
  • Testing frameworks such as RSpec, Jest, Mocha
  • Modern front-end stacks - e.g. Webpack,, Vue.js, React.js
  • Server technologies such as Node.js and Ruby on Rails
  • Relational Databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Container Orchestration platforms such as AWS ECS and Kubernetes
  • Security Infrastructure Tooling (WAF, Guard Duty, Datadog)

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, so if this role sounds like your next adventure, but you don’t feel entirely qualified, apply! 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.

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 recruitment@vidyard.com.