Backend Engineer with Streaming Experience

Description of role/assignment

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our clients’ services team in Stockholm. You will be part of a dedicated group that delivers streaming media to millions of people across the noridcs.

Info about the role

Star: ASAP

Length: 30th of June with possible extension

Location: Stockholm hybrid - 3 days on-site presence required

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend systems for video and radio encoding, packaging, and distribution

• Contribute to the design and scaling of our clients’ CDN and origin services

• Collaborate closely with other development teams, network and datacenter colleagues and support functions

• Troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain services in production

• Work in an agile setup with freedom under responsibility

Required skills

• A minimum of 3 year's professional experience with Java SE

• Solid knowledge of OTT streaming protocols (HLS, DASH, SRT/MPEG-TS, RTMP) and common video/audio codecs and containers

• Experience designing distributed systems

• Experience with native development in C or C++

• Experience with an interpreted scripting language such as Python or shell script

• Solid knowledge of GNU/Linux systems, including configuration and troubleshooting

• Good knowledge about TCP/IP and common application protocols, HTTP in particular

• The ability to reason about modern software design principles

• Comfortably communicating in spoken and written English is necessary, good understanding of Swedish beneficial but not a pre-requisite.