tvOS Engineer
Verkada is the largest cloud-based B2B physical security platform company in the world. Only Verkada offers six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace and intercoms — integrated with a single cloud-based software platform.
Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations the real-time insight to know what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations and costly inefficiencies.
Founded in 2016 with more than $460M in funding raised to date, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 16 offices across three continents, 1,700+ full-time employees and 20,000+ customers across 70+ countries.
About the Viewing Station Team
As a member of the Viewing Station engineering team, you’ll work alongside a small, dynamic team of iOS and backend engineers to build compelling user experiences for Verkada’s real-time video monitoring device that can stream up to 300 camera feeds with ultra-low latency video playback, customizable layouts, and configurable Smart Tiles.
You’ll solve complex and interesting technical challenges, ranging from elegant and performant UI animations to streaming dozens of videos simultaneously in a memory-efficient way. Additionally, you'll implement industry standard and proprietary video streaming technologies, working with Apple Frameworks such as CoreMedia, AVFoundation and Metal. Our team owns the entire tech stack including the backend, web frontend and tvOS, so there are opportunities to contribute and own entire features end to end.
Responsibilities
- Design, code, and test high-quality tvOS applications, ensuring they meet performance and user experience standards. Additionally, contribute to the development of internal libraries that can benefit other iOS apps within our organization.
- Become the in-house expert on tvOS development, staying current with the latest updates and features.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including designers and QA engineers, to create seamless tvOS user experiences.
- Collaborate on the design and implementation of user interfaces that are visually appealing and user-friendly on TV screens.
- Identify and resolve software defects and performance issues, ensuring a smooth and reliable user experience. Work closely with technical support and customers to resolve issues promptly.
- Build automations and create tests to maintain quality and streamline development.
- Continuously improve your craft as a software engineer by learning and leveraging the latest design patterns, principles and technologies.
Requirements
- A degree in Computer Science (BS/MS) or a similar field, or equivalent work experience.
- Profound expertise in Swift, tvOS SDK, and/or iOS SDK.
- Experience in video rendering, CoreMedia, AVFoundation, or Metal is highly beneficial.
- Proficiency in writing multi-threaded, asynchronous code.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers at all levels.
Nice to Have
- Interest or experience in Backend development (Python and/or Flask).
- Interest or experience in Web Frontend development (Typescript and/or React).
Pay Disclosure
At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate’s skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. This estimate can vary based on the factors described above, so the actual starting annual base salary may be above or below this range. This estimate is also just one component of Verkada’s total rewards package. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
Estimated Annual Pay Range
$130,000—$280,000 USD
As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
