Overview

Twitch’s Platforms Engineering team is responsible for developing our viewing applications on a wide variety of target platforms including mobile (iOS, Android), consoles (Xbox, Playstation), set-top boxes (Fire TV, Roku) and any other current and future video platforms (e.g. Smart TVs, VR, etc.). A high-quality user experience on mobile platforms such as iOS and Android is increasingly important to us as smartphones and tablets account for an ever larger share of Twitch usage. As a Mobile Software Engineer, you will be writing native code on one or more of these platforms to bring a great Twitch experience to our users.

Responsibilities

  • Develop new features and improve our iOS and/or Android applications
  • Work closely with Design and Product Management to build the best possible UX for the platform
  • Perform code reviews, write unit tests, and contribute to improving code quality in general
  • Collaborate with and provide feedback to backend teams responsible for the APIs and other services supporting the mobile applications

Requirements

  • 2+ years of application development experience on iOS and/or Android
  • Mastery of Objective-C or Java
  • Demonstrated experience and passion for delivering the best user experience on mobile

Bonus Points

  • Familiarity with video streaming technologies
  • Experience with video playback on iOS and/or Android
  • Knowledge of C/C++
  • Familiarity with web technologies and languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

Perks

  • Full benefits, including medical, dental, vision and life
  • Catered daily lunch and dinners (and hearty breakfasts three times a week)
  • Unlimited snacks and drinks
  • Monthly in-office massages
  • Corporate gym membership
  • Free Clipper Card to pay for your commute from anywhere in the Bay Area
  • Flexible time off policy
  • Weekly happy hours and opportunity to attend one gaming event or tournament
  • Top of the line technology to help you build your own workspace

About Twitch

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. More than 100 million gamers gather every month to broadcast, watch and chat about gaming.

Twitch’s video platform is the backbone of live and on-demand distribution for leading video game broadcasters including casual gamers, pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations. Twitch is leading a revolution in the gaming community, working to create a participatory experience that transcends gameplay.

Our Challenges:

Twitch is tackling and solving some of the hardest technology problems on the planet and doing things that nobody’s done before, or at least haven’t done well.

• Twitch is one of the biggest users of bandwidth in the U.S. and in the world. We’re building our own video CDN to make sure that we provide the best service possible, and we’re doing it as quickly and efficiently as possible.
• Our live chat system, TMI, regularly delivers over 1 million messages a second, and that number is growing rapidly.
• Our engineering team is targeting platforms from the desktop web, to iOS, Android, and every next generation gaming console.

Our People:

It’s sort of a given—every career page invariably talks about how awesome and incredible the people you’ll be working with are. But objectively, we ARE the most awesome and incredible! We’ve got everyone from young grads who are excited to try to change the world, to grizzled dot-com veterans who have done it before and want to do it again.

We have people with graduate degrees from some of the world’s most prestigious universities, and college dropouts whose primary qualification is the ability to get things done.

Our Perks

You should never work somewhere just because of their perks, but we do have some awesome ones. Happy people are productive people, so we have catered lunches and dinners, snacks, gym memberships, massages and more.