Full-Time Senior Frontend Engineer - Backbone Player
Dailymotion is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Frontend Engineer - Backbone Player. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting Valbonne, France based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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As a Senior Frontend Engineer in the Backbone Player team, you'll work on the company's flagship product, the HTML video player. You will join the Player Perf team, and work with a diverse group of people from around the world. You will collaborate with experienced engineers, product managers, designers and data analysts across the company, to deliver features to our users and publishers, with a focus on video streaming experience. Our remote policy is quite flexible, and it's fine if you choose to work from home. Or you can also enjoy our very nice office located in the heart of Sophia-Antipolis.
The ideal candidate has a collaborative mindset and a demonstrated experience building and delivering high-performance web applications.
- Contribute to the team effort to develop new features, fix bugs and deliver a state of the art user experience
- Maintain existing codebase, with a focus on the HTML video player
- Write and maintain technical specifications and technical documentation about the codebase
- Take part in a collaborative culture
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to growth of the team
Skills:
- Strong proficiency with Git
- Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS (vanilla) and JavaScript (vanilla)
- Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks & state management (ideally React/Preact)
- Experience in performance initiatives like observability, monitoring, code optimization
- Experience with build tools (Webpack, Rollup, esbuild...)
- Experience with unit tests tools (Jasmine, Jest, Vitest...)
- Professional experience building advanced reactive web applications using modern tooling
- Strong teamwork mindset
- Excellent problem-solving analytical skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Bonus points:
- Experience with standard HTML5 video API
- Experience with browser-based testing frameworks (Cypress, Playwright)
- Experience with adaptive streaming format such as HLS or MPEG-DASH