At 3Play Media, we're revolutionizing media accessibility through a powerful blend of AI and human expertise. We're seeking a Sustaining Engineering Team Lead to join our collaborative and innovative development team.
About the Role: As our Sustaining Engineering Team Lead, you'll be at the forefront of maintaining and improving our core platform. You'll lead efforts to resolve support escalations, implement strategic, high impact features, and drive systematic improvements across our codebase.
What You'll Do:
- Lead a collaborative sustaining engineering team, tackling support escalations and sustaining "bugs and features" work
- Dive deep into our codebase, becoming an expert in its intricacies and potential
- Provide key contributions to roadmap planning, using insights from your on-the-ground experience with the existing product
- Develop a data-driven approach to identify and resolve generalized, higher level pain points in our codebase
- Interface seamlessly with support, ops, and other dev teams, fostering our collaborative culture
We're Looking For:
- Mid to senior-level experience in software development
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
- A systematic approach to tackling complex issues across a large codebase
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to turn metrics into actionable insights
- Excellent communication skills, able to explain technical concepts to various audiences
- Leadership potential and the ability to effectively guide a team
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in Rails and React, but we value your ability to learn and adapt quickly over specific language and framework experience
- Experience with AWS, video and media transcoding, or SQL is a plus
- Familiarity with accessibility technologies, captioning, and internationalization is a bonus
Why Join 3Play Media?
- Be part of a company making a real difference in media accessibility and localization
- Work on exciting projects involving AI in captioning, audio description, and dubbing
- Enjoy a flexible, hybrid work environment with collaborative in-office Wednesdays
- Shape the future of our sustaining engineering function as we grow
- Join a collaborative, low-ego environment where your ideas are valued
If you're passionate about digging into technical customer problems and enjoy the challenge of maintaining and improving complex systems, we want to hear from you. At 3Play Media, you'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our platform and contribute to our mission of making media accessible to everyone.
Ready to tackle the challenges that keep our systems running smoothly? Apply now and be part of our journey!
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3Play Media Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
Within walking distance of T stops at North Station & Haymarket, we're located in the historic North End. Good eats abound at local lunch spots, coffee shops, and after-work bars – including Boston's best slice right down the street.
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