Senior Software Developer

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 RoleVidyard 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 TeamOur 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. GitTesting frameworks such as RSpec, Jest, MochaModern front-end stacks - e.g. Vue.js, React.jsModern mobile frameworks - React NativeServer technologies such as Node.js and Ruby on RailsRelational Databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQLNice to have experience architecting microservice infrastructures Distributed computing concerns such as message queues and pub/subOperational 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 payComprehensive, flexible benefits on day oneWellness allowance to spend on what’s important to youFlexible hours + unlimited vacation + programs to support travel while working, enabling you to live your best lifeAccess to Inkblot, a digital mental health platform + $1,500/person/year for mental health coverageAllowance to support your ongoing growth and developmentParental leave top-upPaid volunteer hoursEmployee resource groups to empower and drive change at Vidyard and in our communitiesRRSP matchStock optionsFlexible holiday programHome office stipendFlexibility 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. We thank all applicants for your interest in Vidyard. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Unsolicited resumes from Agencies will not be accepted.Vidyard is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to complete the application and/or interview process should notify us at .