Overview

Position Title:Software Development Engineer

Company:Twitch

Location:Hull, UK

Job Description:

Twitch Customer Support is passionate about solving issues for all of Twitch’s community members. We are looking for, and motivated people. With Amazon’s customer obsession philosophy we are bolstering our Customer Support team to provide excellent service to all of our community members, whether they be creators, customers, developers, or viewers.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain performant, reliable web services and applications
  • Establish and champion engineering best practices within your group and Twitch
  • Produce clean, high-quality code, tests, and documentation
  • Actively contribute to code and design reviews with peers and partners
  • Mentor junior peers to develop their talent and help them grow
  • Contribute engineering input and feedback into product planning processes
  • Partner with fellow engineering teams to accomplish complex projects together

Requirements:

  • Readiness to try new things and work with a diverse group of people
  • 6+ years of relevant work experience as a software engineer
  • 3+ years of experience architecting and building applications or web services at scale
  • Experience writing high-quality production code at scale
  • Proficiency with Ruby on Rails, Database management at scale, concurrency, data modeling, and distributed systems fundamentals
  • Sound technical judgment and a bias for action
  • Strong organizational and communication skills

About Twitch

Launched in 2011, Twitch is a one-of-a-kind collision of subcultures, games, communities, and streamers co-creating content around everything they’re into.