Job Description
Haystack News is the leading local & world news service on Connected TVs reaching millions of users and empowering them with a personalized newscast. We are one of the fastest-growing TV News companies in the world, and are already preloaded on 37% of all TVs shipped in the US!
Haystack News already has direct relationships with all major TV companies (Samsung, Sony, Vizio, LG, etc) as well as 350+ premium TV news channels including ABC News, CBSi, Bloomberg, and local TV stations for 90% of the country. Haystack News is redefining the future of TV news and we pride ourselves on our ability to move faster and execute better than anyone else in our industry. We accomplish this by working with the smartest people and staying on the cutting-edge. We measure ourselves by the impact we are having on individuals’ daily lives and on the television industry as a whole.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience on at least one native platform (Android/iOS. Preferably more
- Experience with Javascript/HTML/CSS
- Collaboration
- Ability to give and receive code reviews and provide constructive feedback
- Experience mentoring or managing other engineers. You enjoy it and want to continue developing yourself in that regard.
- Worked with designers and product leads
- Experience diagnosing complex production bugs, debugging them, and resolving them
- Have built an app or product from inception to launch
- Data-driven and ability to use data to drive engineering decisions
- Strong Architectural Know-how.
- Object Oriented Design fundamentals and application of OOD patterns in your work
- Knowledge and usage of client Architecture design patterns (know the pros and cons between MVP, MVC, MVVM, etc). Uni-directional vs bi-directional data flow
- Proven ability to analyze trade-offs to inform your engineering decisions
STRONG PLUSSES:
- Experience implementing, debugging, bug fixes client video-related issues. Knowledge of some or multiple player libraries (video.js or similar, ExoPlayer for Android, AVPlayer for iOS)
- Acted as a scrum master, or having done some level of software project management