Senior Frontend Engineer

Company Description

Dailymotion is the leading video discovery destination & technology that learns about your tastes over time, constantly surfacing the best, most relevant content on the web. Our mission is to provide the best video user experience for consumers on the market, connecting publishers and advertisers to engaged viewers who turn to dailymotion for their daily fix of the most compelling music, entertainment, news and sports content around.

Through partnerships with the world's leading publishers and content creators, France Télévisions, Le Parisien, CBS, Bein Sports, CNN, GQ, Universal Music Group, VICE and more, Dailymotion commands 3 billion monthly pageviews across its mobile app, desktop and connected TV experiences. Dailymotion is owned by Vivendi, one of the largest mass-media corporations in the world.

At Dailymotion, we‘re storytellers. We build the best place for people to enjoy the videos that matter. We do this through utilizing and developing cutting-edge technology and pushing the envelope to bring discoverable stories to life through premium content from the world’s best publishers. We do this by helping these publishers grow their audiences and monetize their content, their way.

Dailymotion is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. We value inclusion and we want you to help us thrive for a more diverse community.

**Job Description**:
As a Senior Frontend engineer in the Partner Experience Engineering Craft, you'll work on the company's flagship product, the HTML video player. Our video player is used by more than 300 million users every month, directly on our platform and on high-traffic websites using our technology.

Reporting to your Engineering Manager, you will join the Player UX team, and work with a diverse group of 15 people from around the world, all of them committed in improving our video player - in a caring, agile and highly-technical environment.

You will collaborate with experienced engineers, product managers, designers and data analysts across the company, to deliver features to our users and publishers, with a focus on video streaming experience.

Our remote policy is quite flexible, and it's fine if you choose to work from home. Or you can also enjoy our very nice office located in the heart of Sophia-Antipolis.

**Responsibilities**
- Contribute to the team effort to develop new features, fix bugs and deliver a state of the art user experience to a variety of browsers and devices (mobiles, tablets, desktops)
- Write and maintain technical specifications and technical documentation about the codebase
- Maintain existing codebase, with a focus on the HMTL video player, and contribute to keep it up to date with current technology and best practices (tests, coding guidelines, continuous deployment)
- Take part in a collaborative culture that encourages every member of our team to bring their added value.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to growth of the team

**Qualifications**:
**Requirements**:

- Strong proficiency with Git
- Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS (vanilla) and JavaScript (vanilla)
- Strong proficiency in standard web development (how the web platform works outside of any framework or library)
- Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (ideally React of Preact)
- Experience with build tools (ideally Webpack)
- Experience with unit tests tools (ideally Karma/Jasmine)
- Professional experience with development best practices (unit tests, functional tests, CI, code reviews, documentation, agile processes)
- Excellent problem-solving analytical skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Comfortable speaking in english

**Bonus points**
- Experience with standard HTML5 video API
- Experience with testing frameworks (ideally Cypress)

Additional Information
- Location**: Full Office or Flex Office in Valbonne / Sophia
- Antipolis**:

- Start Date: depending on your availabilities
- Contract Type**:Permanent**

Want to learn more about us:

- New-York office - BuiltIn
- Offices in France - Welcome to the Jungle
- Our articles

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Career development support (training / internal mobility / compensation cycle / 360 quarter feedback review)

High-end Health Insurance and Personal Services Vouchers (CESU)
- ️ Paid Time off - RTT and Saving time plan (CET)

Meal Vouchers - Public Transport and Bike refund

European Economic and Social Committee (sport membership/cinemas vouchers/gift vouchers/discount)