Senior Software Developer

Vidyard is the video platform that’s built for business. Sales reps, marketers, and corporate communicators use Vidyard to record and share videos that grab attention and deliver their message in a personal, impactful way. It’s the video tool of choice for Microsoft, LinkedIn, and thousands of other companies. We’re passionate about elevating our customers, our teammates, our communities, and ourselves.

About the Role

Vidyard is looking for a Senior Software Developer to join our Accounts & Billing team. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will be a key part of the team responsible for our critical Account and Billing platforms! Through your technical mentorship and leadership capabilities, you will play an important role in supporting the team to thrive while working cross functionally with our product and design teams to ensure our users are able to achieve their goals and seamlessly navigate our pricing and packaging opportunities.

This position is available to candidates located in Canada.

About the Team

Our engineering team consists of over 50 developers across multiple product streams. Each team owns a key portion of our experience. We are passionate about creating awesome products and making Vidyard an amazing place to grow and ship.

The Accounts & Billing team focuses on developing and optimizing the core systems and services that support permissions, accounts, and billing functionalities across Vidyard’s applications and services. Our role is to deliver scalable and extensible platforms, enabling other teams to efficiently iterate on our existing products as well as easily launch and monetize new products.

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.

Our Tech Stack

• Version control - e.g. Git
• Testing frameworks such as RSpec, Jest, Mocha
• Modern front-end stacks - e.g. Vue.js, React.js
• Modern mobile frameworks - React Native
• Server technologies such as Node.js and Ruby on Rails
• Relational Databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Nice to have experience architecting microservice infrastructures 
• Distributed computing concerns such as message queues and pub/sub
• Operational 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 pay
• Comprehensive, flexible benefits on day one
• Wellness allowance to spend on what’s important to you 
• Flexible hours + unlimited vacation + programs to support travel while working, enabling you to live your best life
• Access to Inkblot, a digital mental health platform + $1,500/person/year for mental health coverage
• Allowance to support your ongoing growth and development
• Parental leave top-up
• Paid volunteer hours
• Employee resource groups to empower and drive change at Vidyard and in our communities
• RRSP match
• Stock options
• Flexible holiday program
• Home office stipend 
• Flexibility 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.

Vidyard is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to complete the application and/or interview process should notify us at [email protected]. Unsolicited resumes from Agencies will not be accepted.