Software Engineer
Engineering
Canada - Remote
About the role
As a Software Engineer, you will be joining one of the teams that are building the next generation of Verbit's realtime captioning solution. This team is responsible for a set of cloud-based services and processes which consume customer audio/video media streams and provide realtime caption delivery to a wide variety of customer equipment and platforms. These services must be highly scalable, with high uptime and stability, and the lowest possible latency. This team is fully remote (in U.S. timezones), and works collaboratively with other teams responsible for automated speech recognition (ASR), ordering, sales engineering, research, etc.
Responsibilities:
- You will take responsibility for the life cycle of features and components from early design, through implementation and testing, and eventually into production.
- You will work closely with other team members under the agile development methodology.
- You will coordinate with other software teams and departments as needed (e.g. Product, DevOps, other development teams).
- You will provide some amount of operational support for production systems as needed (e.g. root cause analysis).
- Candidates are expected to have good communication skills and the ability to work efficiently both individually and within a team.
If you want to join our journey, you’ll need:
- At least 5 years of experience with modern C++: C++11 and later, smart pointers, etc.
- At least 5 years of experience with Linux server
- 2-3 years of experience with APIs (e.g. REST) and network/cloud applications
- Experience with cloud providers (e.g. AWS, GCP)
- Experience with modern development methodologies: source code control (e.g. Git), CI/CD, automated testing/deployment
Advantage:
- Experience with Docker, serverless, and other deployment technologies
- Experience with microservices architecture concepts
- Experience with Python, or willingness to learn it
- Experience with specific protocols: WebSocket, WebRTC, streaming media (RTSP/RTMP/SRT)
What makes Verbit unique?
Verbit’s team is committed to putting our customers words to work! Join a team of 400 incredible individuals who share a vision of making all video and audio content accessible to people with disabilities and more actionable and engaging for everyone. Verbit’s in-house, AI-based solutions take live and recorded audio and video to the next level. We do more than just provide the best captioning, transcription, translation and audio description - we offer helpful insights through Generative AI and other features on top of these tools. With Verbit, our 3,000 customers globally can make the most out of their content, events and conversations. Leading universities, corporations, legal agencies and media entities benefit from Verbit’s customized offerings and verbal intelligence platform which is built for the needs of speech-intensive industries.
Do you have Verbit DNA?
Verbit’s people are committed to “winning together” through constant collaboration to have an impact on the world. They share a “do good” mentality and apply it daily in their work.
We’re a group of:
- Tech-savvy individuals who are always open to growth and learning
- Adaptable and flexible people who thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Creative minds who rethink and question how to outperform past results
- Effective communicators who can promote and represent Verbit’s tech and brand