iOS Engineer

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About Brightcove

Brightcove is a team of smart, passionate people who are revolutionizing the way organizations deliver video. We’re hyped up about storytelling, and about helping people connect, share experiences, and view the world. Bottom line:

video is the world’s most compelling, exciting medium, and Brightcove exists to demonstrate that video means business.

As the industry leader in this space, we empower our customers to deliver top-notch video experiences to audiences on every screen in bold and innovative ways. When video is done right, it can have a powerful and lasting effect. Hearts open. Minds change. Creativity thrives. Since 2004, Brightcove has been supporting customers that are some of the largest media companies, enterprises, events, and non-profit organizations in the world. There are over 600 Brightcovers globally, each of us representing our unique talents and passions and we have built a culture that values individual empowerment, excellence and collaboration. This culture enables us to develop technologies once thought impossible, provide customer support without parallel or excuses, and leverage the expertise and resources of a global infrastructure. We take our video seriously, and we take great pride in doing it as one team.

Team Overview

Our professional services team, Brightcove Global Services, builds highly scalable and complex solutions on our platform for some of the best known companies in the world and we're expanding. If you have a strong professional services background, a passion for working on high-functioning teams, a keen sense of creativity and a willingness to work with our clients to build awesome experiences, we'd love to talk.

Brightcove’s global services team is not a typical professional services organization, but is Brightcove’s full-service agency for our clients. The team designs and develops custom video-centric web, mobile, and OTT solutions for a variety of customers across the globe. Our mission is to offer designs that enhance the video experience and to utilize the latest technologies to build purposeful products that push boundaries. Our solutions often involve multiple products and services including Brightcove cloud-based services, Content Management System (CMS), Digital Right Management (DRM), Analytics, Advertising, subscription and monetization engines. We have a team of smart individuals who are passionate about solving complex and interesting problems for our clients and who are driven to ensure those clients are successful.

Job Responsibilities

Collaborate with project managers, user experience leads, QA leads and technical leads to analyze user needs and business requirements

Design and implement features using iOS, Brightcove and other SDKs

Integrate with RESTful and GraphQL APIs using well known SDKs/libraries

Collaborate with other team members, participating in Scrum meetings, design discussions and team code reviews

Qualifications/Experience

5 years of hands-on experience developing and supporting iOS applications

A solid understanding of the Apple monetization ecosystem including subscriptions and Apple Pay

2 years working with Swift (preferably including 5.0 ) and Xcode

Familiarity with code written in Objective C

Strong experience with debugging tools

Intimate experience with several iOS SDKs such as UIKit, Core Animation, AVFoundation & Core Graphics

Experience using non-Apple libraries, e.g. AlamoFire, Moya, RxSwift, Realm or other open source libraries

Experience writing multi-threaded/asynchronous code; solid understanding of threading in iOS applications

Familiarity with cloud development environments, including API design and integration

Understanding of continuous integration process and unit testing

Strong knowledge of iOS UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

Comfortable using git as source control

Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment

Sharp analytical abilities, proven design skills, excellent communication skills

Comfortable mentoring junior developers

Experience implementing robust testing frameworks

Advanced degree in similar fields a plus

Experience building applications on AppleTV / tvOS is a plus

Experience working with React Native is a plus

These are the qualifications and experience we are targeting but we also are excited to have an opportunity to teach you technologies and skills you've never used before. All we ask for is creativity and tenacity in solving the problems that we are tackling together.

Working at Brightcove

As the undisputed global leader in powering premium video for our customers, Brightcove recruits and retains highly qualified and motivated individuals, creating an environment where people can innovate and achieve their best, and we reward them for their performance by giving them the opportunity to share in the company’s success. We offer competitive compensation, stock options, 401k matching, and tuition reimbursement, as well as generous PTO - and we expect you to use it!

We are currently all working remotely due to Covid-19 and plan to return to an in-office experience once it is safe to do so. When we return, this role will be located in our Boston office which is located downtown, in Fort Point harbor. This Brightcove office has an open working space layout with beautiful water views. Employees enjoy access to fully-stocked kitchens and social activities including: happy hours, trivia and movie nights, ping pong tournaments, and philanthropy events. While you won’t get to experience the in-office culture immediately, you will feel it remotely and be able to participate actively. We have plenty of opportunities to meet your colleagues around the globe and we also celebrate a variety of personal interests with organized groups and clubs including an Employee Action Committee, Women of Brightcove, Pride of Brightcove, Parents of Brightcove … and more to come!

If you've gotten all the way to the bottom of this description, thank you for your interest in Brightcove! If this role sounds like something that is exciting to you please don't hesitate to apply, even if you don't meet all of our qualifications. We recognize that no candidate is perfect and Brightcove would love to have the chance to get to know you.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Please note that while this job description is an accurate description of the role, it is also subject to change during the course of this search.

Send us your resume if you are interested and want to learn more!

Company info

Brightcove Inc.
Website : http://www.brightcove.com