Software Engineer II

Well, hello there 👋

More than 15 million people use Screencastify to record, edit and share all sorts of amazing videos. We like to think that we've democratized video creation by making it simpler and more affordable than ever before.

Working at Screencastify

At Screencastify, we value accountability, commitment, and speed. We take our responsibility to our users very seriously, so when we miss a deadline or slow down, it matters.

We’re not a pay-your-dues culture; we will train you quickly and then give you substantial responsibility. The better the results you drive, the more you’ll be rewarded.

We’re a competitive culture in some ways, but not in others. On one hand, we love to win, and hate to lose, and if you do great work, you’ll probably inspire someone working with you to try to do even better. But someone else does not need to lose for you to win.

We constantly challenge each other and push our quality of thought and work to new limits. But no matter how strong a disagreement may be, we want to work in a company of deeply good people who treat their colleagues exceptionally well. No matter how talented, we won’t hire jerks.

About the role

We built the simplest and most reliable screen recorder in the world, but that’s only the beginning. Our near future is full of ambitious new goals, features, and products that will enable us to further improve how we provide service to our users and accelerate our already fast growth.

We prioritize fast iteration without compromising quality while maintaining attention to detail that creates the kind of delightful interactions we’re known for. We’re looking for an experienced, energetic, and thoughtful engineer to build effective tools for video communication.

Why is this role special?

1. Tackle our most interesting and impactful problems. Our team is still small, and people wear many hats. You'd jump between product, marketing, internal tools, and design — participating in every phase from inception to implementation. Absolutely no boredom.
2. Work with an extremely talented team. Our team has built a product used by millions of people. We focus on solving problems that matter and putting product quality above all else.
3. Join us at a magical time. We're profitable and support tens of millions of users with a small team, which gives us a huge green field to work with. You'll join at the perfect time to shape how we grow from here.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with our Product and Engineering teams to design, develop, test, and ship features
• Design and implement medium to large size user-facing features while reducing the system's tech debt
• Cultivate expertise for one or more technologies in our stack and take initiative to learn new ones
• Proactively support other team members and help them to be successful
• Help define platform capabilities and implement core solutions using solid design principles, while balancing complexity, speed of implementation, reliability, and expandability
• Diagnose and improve the quality of our end-to-end video experience
• Uphold the highest standard of engineering excellence because the performance and reliability of media infrastructure directly impact our product experience and our overall brand

Requirements

You’re perfect for this role if you:

• Have 2-4+ years building and maintaining quality user interfaces that have reached a large audience, ideally while the product is experiencing rapid growth
• Have a Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
• Have experience developing end-to-end application software development, including front end, back end, UI, and UX; we use TypeScript, React, and Node.js
• Have relational database familiarity technologies with SQL
• Can readily learn most technologies as you go
• Care about the business implications of anything you build. You're not just going after cool stuff — you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line
• Are flexible, dedicated, and curious

This is a Chicago-based hybrid position with 2 days a week in the office.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation. We take a data-driven approach to our compensation strategy so all employees are paid competitively and fairly.
• 401k plan. We want to invest in present you and future you, which is why we offer a generous 401k match with our 401k plan.
• Flexible time off (FTO) policy. We recognize that time off to rest and recharge is important. The Flexible Time Off Policy (FTO) is designed for our employees to do just that -- balance wo