Senior Software Developer (Nova)

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 in Canada.

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.

 
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:
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.