Joining the Dailymotion engineering team means deploying cutting-edge video technologies on a global scale and taking on technical challenges to develop innovative products and services.

We are currently seeking a talented software developer specializing in video to join our team. The successful candidate will be experienced in optimizing video-based applications, with a focus on video encoding, native video players and other video-related features.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Design and build advanced video features to provide equivalent user experience for the iOS and Android platform

• Improve video playback performance and other video-related functionalities. 

• Experiment video streaming optimizations through PoC and provide ways to industrialize the outcome

• Provide technical analysis about new video codec implementation possibilities and their potential gains

At Dailymotion, we empower candidates to take action. If this job sounds like a great opportunity for you, be confident in your skills, we are always happy to meet you! If needed, we can accommodate our recruitment process for your special abilities.

Qualifications: 

• Good Knowledge of video file formats, video metadata, streaming protocols and optimizations (HLS/Dash/SRT/RTMP/Smooth…) 

• Provide a unified experience across all platforms through knowledge of iOS and Android video possibilities:  

Has previous development experience on Native stacks such as: 

- NDK (Native C++ on Android) / Swift / Objective-C 

- ExoPlayer or AVPlayer usage optimization 

• Good knowledge of: 

- common video tools (ffmpeg, mediainfo, …) 

- video codecs (H264/H265, GOPS, KeyFrames,…) 

- audio codecs (AAC/AC3/…) 

• Video editing, overlay (stickers on top of video), pip, filters (on iOS & Android), trim 

• Scripting (Python3, bash, Perl, JS, …) 

• Programming languages knowledge (C/C++, Golang) 

• POC & keeping us up to date with latest video technologies / possibilities. 

• Good communication skills and ability to work effectively in a small fast-paced team.  

• Be self-motivated to explore new technologies, apps, tools and frameworks.