Video & Streaming Engineer for Digital News Platform

About the role

Solvd is seeking a Video & Streaming Engineer to build a greenfield digital news platform for a major international news brand. The platform centers on an always‑on livestream, automated broadcast clip ingestion, and a high‑performance player architecture designed for breaking‑news traffic.

Key responsibilities

• 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 (HLS, DASH) and device‑aware playback for web and mobile.
• Support livestream and breaking‑news workflows, including failover and resilience requirements.
• Implement clipping, transcoding, thumbnail generation, caption and subtitle integration for broadcast clip ingestion.
• Integrate captions, subtitles, thumbnails, poster frames, rights management, availability‑window controls, and geoblocking.
• Integrate video advertising (VAST, VPAID) and analytics, and implement playback telemetry and error handling.
• Conduct load testing, resilience validation, and major‑event readiness testing ahead of launch.

Required profile

• Hands‑on experience integrating and configuring enterprise video platforms such as 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 including clipping, transcoding, thumbnail generation, and caption/subtitle integration.
• Experience integrating video advertising (VAST, VPAID) 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 across CMS, frontend, and infrastructure teams.

Required skills

• Brightcove
• JW Player
• Mux
• THEOplayer
• HLS
• DASH
• VAST
• VPAID
• CDN
• Widevine
• FairPlay
• PlayReady