Vimeo Software Engineer

Our engineering team is a small-but-mighty group of craftspeople who love to collaborate, encourage curiosity, and uphold technical excellence. We continuously deliver small, impactful improvements, always striving to make world-class software that empowers people to build their business with video. We believe diversity of perspective and experience are key to building great tech Write well-tested and performant code for our web platform using Ruby, JavaScript, and other languages when they are the right tool for the job Make important contributions to the Vimeo OTT platform and expand our ability to deliver rich experiences to our users Grow your technical expertise to become an effective collaborator with teammates on tough problems and innovative technical solutions Improve performance, monitoring, alerting, and security for our services

Vimeo was founded by filmmakers who wanted an efficient way to share videos with others. It is more creator-oriented than YouTube, with professional software, technology, and tools for creators to produce, share, and sell their videos. In 2007, it became the first online video sharing site to support HD playback for consumers, updating to 4K playback in 2016. Vimeo's app has also been updated to allow recording and live streaming as well as watching video. This service is aimed predominantly at enterprise customers although they have millions of small-time users too. Vimeo has risen to become the world's biggest ad-free open video platform, with significant funding that has allowed it to expand operations and build up the business. Recently, however, the company has found itself struck by the effects of the economic downturn felt by much of the industry, and has been forced to reduce its workforce - a step taken to ensure it comes out of this rough time "a stronger company". On top of this, it received a hefty fine for failure to remove copyrighted content back in 2019, after losing an appeal against the initial ruling. In 2024, Vimeo is rumoured to be in the process of acquisition by leading mobile app developer Bending Spoons, which could signify a major shift in the tech landscape.