About the Role
Title: Intermediate Software Developer (Nova)
Location: Remote, Canada
Job Description:
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 Role
Vidyard is seeking a Full Stack Intermediate 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 Team
Our 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 3+ 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.
- 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 developers and mentor junior 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
- Server technologies such as Node.js, Bun 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
- Familiarity with AI and machine learning technologies is a plus