Senior Front End Engineer, Viewing Experience

Wistia is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team! This role is a great opportunity to work closely with a thoughtful, creative, and collaborative team working on exciting products that make business more human with video.

Our embeddable video player is the most visible and used part of our video marketing platform, loaded into browsers millions of times a day. It needs to be small, fast, accessible, easily embedded in all sorts of websites, and work across the vast majority of end user devices and browser combinations. Our Channels feature likewise is embedded in customer websites to provide a binge-worthy experience for their viewers and presents the same technical challenges.
We’re a diverse and inclusive team composed of engineers, product managers and designers. We’re technology-minded, but customer focused, always aiming to deliver the highest-impact features that prioritize the long-term success of the product.
We’re looking for someone who:

• Has multiple years of experience working in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Is interested not just in building components, but using JavaScript in ways that get into the guts of internet video.
• Is excited by the challenge of having to make our product work fast and well in the wild, under all kinds of conditions (browser-specific constraints, connection speed constraints, constraints of the sites we embed in).
• Cares about increasing the accessibility of the web generally and video on the web in particular.
• Has experience working on cross-functional product teams.
• Enjoys working with others to solve not just technical, but people, design, and product challenges.
• Likes to help other engineers grow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with your product manager and designer to deeply understand the strategy and issues faced by our customers and their customers, the end users.
• Collaborate with your team to make technical and product decisions that are consistent with Wistia’s company values: center the customer, keep it simple, stay nimble, take ownership, and focus on outcomes.
• Take responsibility for scoping, technical design, and implementation of major features, as well as helping out with ongoing team activities such as bug fixes, responding to outages, addressing technical debt in the code base, working with our customer support folk to troubleshoot customer issues, and participating in cross-team discussions and initiatives.

About Wistia
We try to ensure Wistia is an inclusive and diverse place where everyone feels happy, fulfilled, respected, comfortable, and welcome. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We care a lot, so our benefits are actually benefits, not just the fun stuff like swag and snacks in the office (though we also have lots of those too!).
We know the biggest investment we can make is in our employees, so we provide:

• A great compensation package
• 401k with 3% company contribution, regardless of whether you contribute
• Profit sharing!
• Flexible hours
• Fully paid healthcare coverage for you and your family (including dental) and a healthcare FSA
• Up to 16 weeks paid family leave
• Flexible vacation and sick leave
• Transportation subsidies

Location/Remote Opportunities
Wistia is a hybrid in-person/remote company. Engineers can work from our beautiful office in Cambridge, MA, or anywhere in the continental US.