Senior Front End Engineer

About Riverside

Riverside empowers media companies to record podcasts and video interviews remotely in studio-quality. Since launching, we have experienced rapid growth and are trusted by customers such as Spotify, NY Times, NBC, CNN, and iHeartMedia.

At Riverside, every engineer is a product engineer. Our engineers are focused on building the easiest and most powerful content creation platform and bringing value to thousands of creators around the world. They love the fact that their favorite dev podcast () is recorded with the software they built.

At Riverside, we were the first to record local video in the browser. And our next features are even more bold and innovative. This is your chance to be a key player in a world-class fastly growing team.

REQUIREMENTS

About the position

We’re looking for a sharp Frontend Developer ready to take on serious engineering challenges and create an impact on our product - making high quality content creation accessible to everyone.

We're building the next-generation platform for fast, easy creation of high-quality audio and video content, using hybrid recording technology and AI powered editing. As a young company with a rapidly growing product, our engineers are making key technical choices to scale our system beyond its current limitations.

As part of the team, you’ll help design and evolve our product by developing the full stack architecture - building our APIs and implementing end-to-end features that allow us to create a performant content creation platform within the browser. We're aiming for developers with keen architectural sense, who choose practical technologies and make smart bets that increase the advantage of our compact yet highly talented team, and who aren’t afraid to dive deep into the weeds to understand and fix thorny technical problems.

As a member of the engineering team you’ll play an integral role in the following:

- Implementing an interaction paradigm that applies easy recording and editing tools for intuitive audio and video production
- Designing and executing implementation of Database models and APIs serving our web and mobile clients
- Collaborate with product and design teams early on to design and scope features, and prepare our data layers, APIs, and services to accommodate them
- Write high-quality testable code that's functional, maintainable and performant

Requirements:

- 5+ years of professional frontend development experience with significant work on both client and server projects
- Solid knowledge of back-end development - databases, middleware, MVC, background processing, API implementation and versioning, working with external services (emailing, storage, notifications, web socket platforms, analytics, CRMs), more specifically using - Node.js, MongoDB, Redis.
- Strong knowledge of web technologies (HTML/JS/CSS) applied using React.JS to build sophisticated yet elegant web applications
- Self-aware of strengths and self-motivated to constantly learn and improve
- Strong written and verbal communication in English
- A true team player with great communication skills