Video Engineering Manager, Front-End

Full Time Job
We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager who is passionate about building publishing workflows and Content Management Systems. You will be working with engineers to build and release products and front-end integrations for various content management systems. You will be contributing to the design and implementation of components that will guarantee video processing quality at rapid speeds as we cover the ViacomCBS Business Units requirements for on-demand and live streaming workflows.

Your Day-to-Day:
• Lead a team of engineers working with business units on integrations between our platforms and their content management systems
• Collaborate with other engineers, leadership, and members of the Central Video Technology Group distributed across multiple locations to determine priorities and best practices and refine functional requirements
• Co-ordinate and run the teams Agile/Sprint process and always be on-top of assignment of tasks and project deliverables and deadlines
• Participate in software architecture discussions and code review
• Effectively work on Architect, design, develop, test, maintain and improve software systems
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product Teams as well as third-party partners to develop both short and long-range strategic roadmap planning

Key Projects:
• Build, maintain and take the leadership on our standalone live streaming CMS and implement UI widgets for the latest features
• Assist in designing and implementing a new real-time dashboard for our Video Platform products
• Work with teams on enhancing and extending our partner integrations with brands like CBS Sports, CBS Media Ventures, MTV, VidCon, PlutoTV, Paramount , and others.
• Help to design and maintain front-end panels and integrations for Live and VoD streaming workflows at an incredible scale

QUALIFICATIONS:

What you bring to the team:

You have -
• 3 years of people management experience and the ability to operate with influence, leading engineering teams working on online video streaming
• Be a leader that your team is excited to follow, both through regular and planned activities, but also when plans change unexpectedly due to outside influence
• Promote an open environment of mutual support and knowledge sharing across teams
• Experience leading the hiring process, conducting interviews, and finding suitable candidates for open engineering positions
• OTT, Web and Mobile video streaming experience
• Experience with technical writing and design documentation
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Experience working with contractors and consultants as an extension of your internal team, clearly defining project/work deliverables
• Front-end engineering experience with an understanding of UI/UX patterns
• Excellent core JavaScript, HTML, and CSS skills and experience working in modern JavaScript frameworks (React, EmberJS, Vue, Angular, etc)
• Experience with PHP frameworks such as Symphony, Drupal
• Experience with Unit and Integration testing
• Experience integrating with NoSQL databases
• Comfortable with CI/CD Pipelines, and deploying code
• Experience with Git version control, and other software adjacent tools
• Ability to quickly prototype and contribute to UX/UI designs
• Excellent knowledge of browser troubleshooting and debugging practices and techniques
• Knowledge of graphics software such as Adobe Suite, Photoshop etc.
• Critical thinker with good problem-solving and time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience with technical writing and design documentation
• Have a sense of humor, humility, and curiosity

You might also have -
• Experience with open-source
• Patches or code publicly available
• Passion for UX/UI and software design

FUNCTION: Software Engineering