Software Engineer (Flexible/Remote)

At Vidyard, we make life easier for sellers, marketers and corporate communicators. Our video messaging tools, AI tools, and other products are used by Microsoft, LinkedIn, and thousands of other companies. We're passionate about elevating our customers, our teammates, our communities, and ourselves.

Vidyard is seeking a Full Stack Intermediate Software Developer to join our innovative Nova Team, a pivotal force behind our cutting-edge AI Avatar feature and experimental functionalities. As a key player in this team, you will contribute to the development and enhancement of our AI video creation capabilities, enabling users to easily create AI videos of themselves and others by providing just a text script. This role is instrumental in shaping the advanced features and experimental projects that define Vidyard's offerings to our valued customers.
Reporting directly to the Software Development Manager, you'll collaborate with a cross-functional team of developers, a designer, and a product manager to address customer challenges and deliver exceptional software solutions.
This is a remote role open to candidates located in Canada.
Our Nova Team is composed of five developers, a designer, a product manager, and a software development manager. We are dedicated to creating and enhancing Vidyard's AI Avatar feature, continually improving and expanding its functionality. A solid background in software engineering—you have had 3+ years of experience shipping user-facing, scalable web products.
The ability to work across the software stack as a generalist while bringing experience to either front-end or back-end development.
A history of success delivering on different initiatives in an agile, iterative environment.
Strong communication and collaboration skills—you strive for clarity and understanding and can navigate discussions around risks and tradeoffs.
The desire to drive improvements to our quality, reliability, and performance standards.
Eager to share knowledge among other developers and mentor junior developers on your team.
Version control - e.g. Testing frameworks such as RSpec, Jest, Mocha
Modern front-end stacks - e.g. Vue.js, React.js
Server technologies such as Node.js, Bun and Ruby on Rails
Relational Databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL
Operational concerns such as monitoring and logging
Familiarity with AI and machine learning technologies is a plus
Our engineering team consists of generalists with expertise leaning toward either front-end or back-end development, all maintaining a comprehensive understanding of the full stack. Join us in shaping the future of Vidyard's core offerings and delivering unparalleled value to our customers.
As we also value user obsession , we prioritize our users, customers and community so you can expect to hear from our team even if you are not selected to move forward.
Competitive pay
Comprehensive, flexible benefits on day one
Flexible hours + unlimited vacation + programs to support travel while working, enabling you to live your best life
Access to Inkblot, a digital mental health platform + $1,500/person/year for mental health coverage*
Parental leave top-up
Employee resource groups to empower and drive change at Vidyard and in our communities
Flexible holiday program
Home office stipend
Flexibility to work in the place that brings out your best: whether you thrive in the comfort of your home office, or are local to, and prefer the energy of our collaboration space in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, there is flexibility for all. Although we default to remote-first there will be occasional in-person meetings/events purposefully designed for connection and collaboration.