About Us

Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.

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About the Role

Twitch is building the future of interactive entertainment. The services we create for our users have deep, lasting effects on their lives. For many of our creators, streaming on Twitch is a career, and our payment systems are central to making this possible. We're operating at a massive scale and you'll help millions of creators to earn a living doing what they love.

As a key member of the engineering team, you will have the opportunity to design, build and scale solutions that affect millions of users and broadcasters.  You will take high ownership of your services - architecting, building and operating them.  You will partner with other engineers, product managers, designers and data specialists to deliver solutions.

You Will:

• Work with product managers, technical leads and other engineers to design, develop and launch commerce and payments platform experiences 
• Customer-focused to contribute towards timely project deliveries with exceptional quality
• Improve engineering process and tools to improve efficiency and productivity
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Mentor and cultivate junior engineers

You Have:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or prior relevant engineering experiences
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, data modeling and schema design
• Prior experience building consumer-facing products at scale
• Experience with modern SRE/Devops practices and culture
• 5+ years as an software engineer
• Proficient experience level in one or more of the following language: Go, Ruby, Java, C++, Typescript/React

Bonus Points

• Previous experience in commerce/payments domain
• Experience building software and services using AWS technologies such as ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions
• Twitch user, broadcaster, or partner or experience in the gaming industry

Perks

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Twitch. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

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Job ID: TW8640