Video/Streaming Engineer (part-time)

The role

You will own the video and streaming layer end-to-end for a greenfield digital news platform. This includes platform integration, adaptive playback, livestream workflows, and resilience testing.

What you will do

• Own video, livestream, and player technical implementation across the platform.
• Integrate the selected video platform and player with the broader content and delivery architecture.
• Implement adaptive bitrate streaming and device-aware playback across web and mobile environments.
• Support livestream and breaking-news streaming workflows.
• Implement clipping and newsroom video-processing capabilities.
• Integrate captions, subtitles, thumbnails, and poster frames.
• Support rights management, availability-window controls, and geoblocking requirements.
• Integrate video advertising and analytics capabilities.
• Implement playback telemetry, error handling, and fallback logic.
• Support load testing, resilience validation, and major-event readiness testing.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience integrating and configuring enterprise video platforms — Brightcove, JW Player, Mux, THEOplayer, or similar.
• Strong understanding of adaptive bitrate streaming — HLS, DASH — and device-aware playback implementation.
• Experience implementing livestream workflows in a production environment.
• Familiarity with video processing concepts — clipping, transcoding, thumbnail generation, caption and subtitle integration.
• Experience integrating video advertising — VAST, VPAID, or similar — and video analytics.
• Ability to implement playback telemetry, error detection, and fallback handling.
• Experience supporting performance and resilience testing for high-traffic video delivery scenarios.
• Strong collaboration skills — able to work across CMS, frontend, and infrastructure teams.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering video infrastructure for news, media, or broadcast organizations.
• Familiarity with rights management, availability windows, and geoblocking implementation.
• Experience with CDN configuration for video delivery at scale.
• Background working on platforms designed for major-event traffic spikes.
• Familiarity with DRM implementation — Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady.
• Experience with poster frame, chapter marker, and structured metadata workflows for editorial video.

About the company

Solvd Inc. is an AI-native consulting and technology services firm delivering enterprise transformation across cloud, data, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. Following the acquisition of Tooploox, Solvd now offers end-to-end delivery from strategic advisory to custom AI development.