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Video Engineer
20 160 - 33 600 PLN net/m Long-Term Contract (B2B) Poland (Remote)
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job_description: {
We are Flip, a ground-breaking platform that combines e-commerce with social media and a unicorn startup. We populate the feed of our application with video reviews from our users, and now we want to add a seasoned Video Engineer to help us with our video processing pipeline. We are looking for someone with in-depth knowledge of video packaging and encoding across common VOD multimedia formats. Our backend work is based on TypeScript and FFmpeg in a highly asynchronous, cloud-based microservice environment. If you want to learn more about the video team and the challenges it faces, watch this speech given by the team leader.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_KKN4fSD0U&ab_channel=SoftwareMansion] .
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What we offer:
  • Fully remote job.
  • 20 days of paid holiday.
  • 400 PLN each month to spend on +750 perks via Worksmile.
  • Working hours from 8:00 / 9:00 AM CEST to 4:00 / 5:00 PM CEST.
  • Integration events.
  • Informal atmosphere.
  • Non-corporate communication across teams.
  • An international English-speaking environment.
Our tech stack:
  • TypeScript, NodeJS, NestJS.
  • FFMPEG.
  • Encoding standards: H.264, AV1.
  • Media delivered via: HLS.
  • Message broker: RabbitMQ.
  • Microservices based on: K8s.
  • Monitoring & APM: DataDog, Grafana + Prometheus.
  • Our main cloud: AWS.
Your role:
  • Develop our upload, transcoding, packaging, and playback media delivery solutions.
  • Design, maintain, and build services and video processing workflows.
  • Do research and development to optimize content, workflow, new media formats, codecs, and more.
  • Impact the future of Flip’s video services.
  • Collaborate with your team on a technical roadmap.
Qualifications:
  • At least 2 years of commercial experience in a similar role.
  • Understanding of at least one modern video format (fMP4, MP4, MPEGTS, ISOBMFF, WebM)
  • Experience with HTTP media delivery standards/protocols, such as HLS or similar (MPEG-DASH, smooth streaming).
  • Solid technical video-related knowledge including experience in some of these areas: encoding, packaging, video formats, video codecs, audio codecs.
  • Experience with TypeScript or willingness to learn it.
  • Confidence in working with video, streaming, and media.
  • Problem-solving skills and a “can do” attitude.
  • Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
  • Commitment to creating clean code, delivering exceptional products, and constantly improving your skills.
  • Proficient in English (minimum B2 level).
Awesome to have:
  • Familiarity with FFMPEG, libav, shaka-packager, or other video-related tools & utilities.
  • Experience with Javascript/TypeScript.
  • Experience with modern video encoding standards (preferably H.264, AV1 or VP9).
  • Experience in C/C++/Rust or other low-level programming languages.
  • Experience with video quality assessment tools.
  • Experience with video encoding optimizations.
  • Strong experience with data analysis & data-driven decision-making.
  • Experience with other media formats (image, audio, subtitles).
  • Experience with CDN configuration and edge computing.
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