About Brightcove

Brightcove is a team of smart, passionate people who are revolutionizing the way organizations deliver video. We’re hyped up about storytelling, and about helping people connect, share experiences, and view the world. Bottom line: video is the world’s most compelling, exciting medium, and Brightcove exists to demonstrate that video means business.

As the industry leader in this space, we empower our customers to deliver top-notch video experiences to audiences on every screen in bold and innovative ways. When video is done right, it can have a powerful and lasting effect. Hearts open. Minds change. Creativity thrives. Since 2004, Brightcove has been supporting customers that are some of the largest media companies, enterprises, events, and non-profit organizations in the world. There are over 600 Brightcove employees globally, each of us representing our unique talents and passions and we have built a culture that values individual empowerment, excellence and collaboration. This culture enables us to develop technologies once thought impossible, provide customer support without parallel or excuses, and leverage the expertise and resources of a global infrastructure. We take our video seriously, and we take great pride in doing it as one team.

About the Team

Our professional services team, Brightcove Global Services, provides consulting and delivery services to guide some of the best known companies in the world through their OTT journeys and we're expanding. If you have a strong consulting and professional services background, a passion for working on high-functioning teams, a keen sense of creativity and a willingness to help our clients achieve their business goals through video technology, we'd love to talk.

Brightcove’s global services team is not a typical professional services organization, but is Brightcove’s full-service agency for our clients. The team augments our platform and product by building custom video-centric web, mobile, and OTT solutions for a variety of customers across the globe. Our mission is to offer services that maximize customer KPIs in the video space leveraging their content. Our solutions often involve multiple products and services including Brightcove Beacon (OTT Platform), cloud-based services, Content Management System (CMS), Digital Right Management (DRM), Analytics services, Advertising services, subscription and monetization services. We have a team of smart individuals who are passionate about solving complex and interesting problems for our clients and who are driven to ensure those clients are successful.

About the Role

Have you led technical teams, mentored and learned from them? Impressed clients with your ability to simplify and solve complex technical problems? Been on journeys with customers as a partner to build systems that evolve with evolving needs? If so, and if you’re looking for a chance to grow and work with some of the most well-known media brands in the world, we’d love to talk.

We're currently looking for a Technical Manager/Lead to join our India-based team. The perfect candidate for this role will have strong technical architecture and design skills; have organized and led teams with a keen eye to meet company business goals, mentored teams on delivery best practices (unit testing, code reviews, security and performance audits); and, most importantly, will have delighted clients with their teams’ work.

This role is a highly visible and important role in pre-sales and delivery consulting, working with Client Partners (sales), Business Analysts and Project Managers to help size and scope opportunities with our customers who need services assistance. In this capacity you will need to be comfortable with leading conversations with customers on their OTT journeys, capturing requirements, designing solutions and coming up with development estimates.

Job Responsibilities

Consulting. Technical Leads are part of the senior team that manage the client and are called upon to facilitate user requirements sessions, design technical specifications, and manage development of documentation to meet client expectations. This role requires you to constantly keep evolving with the fast evolving OTT industry and provide strategic, technical and solution expertise for clients in their journeys.
Solution Architecture. Technical Leads design solutions for various client needs. TLs support the analysis of client processes and recommend new business models, workflows, or solutions to best meet client needs.
Technical Leadership. Technical Leads manage all technical aspects of the project and also contribute directly by writing code, managing builds and performing other hands-on tasks. TLs have the ability to exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
Team Management. You will manage a team of developers and quality analysts to successfully deliver agreed-upon solutions of the highest quality, exceeding customer expectations. They mentor and guide less experienced consultants. They are expected to be role models for best practices and to provide technical knowledge sharing.

Qualifications/Experience

3+ years prior experience as a technical developer or related work experience; 3+ years in technical leadership roles; experience in a project-based consulting environment
Expertise architecting and designing software solutions for various problem types
Extensive knowledge in the areas of custom software development: OO Design Patterns; microservices, middleware, etc.
Strong proficiency with at least one server-side language (Node.js and/or Python preferred)
Strong proficiency with vanilla JavaScript
Strong Object Oriented Programming skills
Deep understanding of at least one modern JavaScript framework (React, Angular, Vue, etc.)
Broad knowledge of technologies in the OTT and complementary industries including ads, monetization, analytics, authentication and stores
Understanding data security compliance and security best practices
Experience in profiling, debugging and troubleshooting systems
Solid understanding of databases and data modeling/design techniques; data interface protocols; database deployment and scalability; database tuning
Extensive experience with designing systems for scale and reuse, source code management strategies, and release management
Strong and effective verbal and written communications skills; as well as strong and effective presentation and facilitation skills
Willingness to travel to client locations and collaborate with distributed delivery teams as needed
Solid knowledge of system administration and software and hardware configuration and production system deployments; ability to make informed recommendations to customer IT staff; ability to troubleshoot pre- and post-production implementations; security; load balancing and performance
Extensive AWS experience or certification
Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
Experience working with JavaScript or React Native is a plus
Experience working with smart TV frameworks such as Samsung (Tizen), LG (webOS) is a plus
Experience working with Chromecast/AndroidTV/tvOS/Roku is a plus
Experience working with iOS/Android is a plus

Working at Brightcove

As the undisputed global leader in powering premium video for our customers, Brightcove recruits and retains highly qualified and motivated individuals, creating an environment where people can innovate and achieve their best, and we reward them for their performance by giving them the opportunity to share in the company’s success. We offer competitive benefits and compensation packages.

Brightcove is headquartered in Boston and while we are currently remote due to Covid-19, this role is designated to be located in our Chennai office once it is safe to do so. Working at Brightcove affords you unparalleled access to scale, distribution and operational maturity while maintaining a small, agile and entrepreneurial culture. We recruit and retain highly qualified and motivated individuals, create an environment where they can innovate and achieve their best, and reward them for their performance by giving them the opportunity to share in the company’s success. We recognize and reward performance - so when the business wins, our colleagues do too.

If you've gotten all the way to the bottom of this description, thank you for your interest in Brightcove! If this role sounds like something that is exciting to you please don't hesitate to apply, even if you don't meet all of our qualifications. We recognize that no candidate is perfect and Brightcove would love to have the chance to get to know you.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Send us your resume if you are interested and want to learn more!

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