Staff Engineer - JavaScript (100% Remote)

About the team
We are looking for an experienced JavaScript / Frontend engineer to join our editor team.
VEED is no longer a simple website that runs on a single server. We have managed to build a truly browser-based game engine that runs on 100s of machines. We were told that we can’t do it, that it’s impossible, but hey we did it anyway!
So we need someone to come in and help us manage this complexity to make our systems simpler, faster and more maintainable.
Being within the video editing space brings a unique set of challenges. Web JS frameworks were never designed originally to host heavy duty video applications, so we really need to think outside the box when building. Code efficiency really matters here because it impacts frame rates, latency and buffering.
So, if you are looking for a new challenge and all of the above sounds fun to you, this may be the role for you!
Of course, you will also have plenty of support from other teams, whether it is cloud infrastructure, rendering, frontend or backend, because we know that developing such features can sometimes touch the whole stack. You will have the opportunity to influence how these features are built and also to grow the team.
What You'll Do

• As a Staff Software engineer you will act as an engineering multiplier for the entire division you will serve. You will be a group engineering managers’ technical partner and the ultimate responsible person when it comes to the technical work being carried out by a division. The Staff Engineer for JavaScript will have a strong emphasis on cross-team collaboration, setting technical direction, coaching and supporting teams across Veed to integrate AI tools.
• You will be responsible for the technical output of your teams both in terms of code quality as well as creating monitoring, handling and resolving alerts. You will contribute to building a culture of responsibility and accountability.
• You will work closely with the CTO, Architects, Group Engineering Managers and Engineering Managers in supporting the rest of the Engineering Team. You will not have any line management responsibilities.

Core responsibilities of the Staff Engineer:

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your division and others.
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for your team.
• Provide mentorship for all Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers.
• Exert significant influence on the overall vision and long-range goals of your team.
• Shepherd the definition and improvement of our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of immense complexity and scope.
• Proactively seek out difficult impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions that will enable the entire team to iterate faster.
• Represent VEED and its values in public communication around broad initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions. Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your team.
• Consistently ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Participate in Incident Management.

About the team
We are looking for an experienced JavaScript / Frontend engineer to join our editor team.
VEED is no longer a simple website that runs on a single server. We have managed to build a truly browser-based game engine that runs on 100s of machines. We were told that we can’t do it, that it’s impossible, but hey we did it anyway!
So we need someone to come in and help us manage this complexity to make our systems simpler, faster and more maintainable.
Being within the video editing space brings a unique set of challenges. Web JS frameworks were never designed originally to host heavy duty video applications, so we really need to think outside the box when building. Code efficiency really matters here because it impacts frame rates, latency and buffering.
So, if you are looking for a new challenge and all of the above sounds fun to you, this may be the role for you!
Of course, you will also have plenty of support from other teams, whether it is cloud infrastructure, rendering, frontend or backend, because we know that developing such features can sometimes touch the whole stack. You will have the opportunity to influence how these features are built and also to grow the team.
What You'll Do

• As a Staff Software engineer you will act as an engineering multiplier for the entire division you will serve. You will be a group engineering managers’ technical partner and the ultimate responsible person when it comes to the technical work being carried out by a division. The Staff Engineer for JavaScript will have a strong emphasis on cross-team collaboration, setting technical direction, coaching and supporting teams across Veed to integrate AI tools.
• You will be responsible for the technical output of your teams both in terms of code quality as well as creating monitoring, handling and resolving alerts. You will contribute to building a culture of responsibility and accountability.
• You will work closely with the CTO, Architects, Group Engineering Managers and Engineering Managers in supporting the rest of the Engineering Team. You will not have any line management responsibilities.

Core responsibilities of the Staff Engineer:

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your division and others.
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for your team.
• Provide mentorship for all Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers.
• Exert significant influence on the overall vision and long-range goals of your team.
• Shepherd the definition and improvement of our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of immense complexity and scope.
• Proactively seek out difficult impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions that will enable the entire team to iterate faster.
• Represent VEED and its values in public communication around broad initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions. Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your team.
• Consistently ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Participate in Incident Management.