Software Engineering Manager

Clipchamp is the go-to video platform with one simple mission: to empower anyone to tell stories worth sharing. Since 2016 we’ve attracted over seventeen million registered users globally and counting, and that’s only the beginning. We've now joined Microsoft's Office Media Group (OMG) - to empower every person and organisation to achieve more with media.

Building and maintaining strong connections across location and time is critical in the world we live in, and the emotional power of media - video, audio, and photos - makes it perfect for fostering personal connections and sharing information.

Our in-browser platform gives users access to professional video editing tools and features alongside a one million asset-strong stock library and hundreds of editable video templates. We're the video platform that's built with everyday editors and creators in mind.

**About the Team**

While Clipchamp is predominantly based in Australia, Office Media Group is a global team with offices in five countries. Joining Clipchamp means you'll join a team of colleagues who live all around the world. We’re committed to each team member feeling connected, regardless of where they work and live.

**Clipchamp’s Technical Stack**

Our video editing experience lives completely in-browser, which means pushing the boundaries of what web technologies can do. We hold a high bar for performance and user experience and invest in unique technologies like in-browser file caching, video composition, and video encoders.

Our frontend codebase is built on React, TypeScript, WebAssembly, ServiceWorkers, and WebGL. On the backend we use Python and are introducing C# for native apps and services. We deploy code to production daily, supported by a culture of automated testing and our dedicated engineering productivity team.

**Responsibilities**:
**As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be**:

- Empowering software engineers to continuously learn, improve their skills, and grow their careers
- Advocating for software engineers, help them remove obstacles, unlock their potential and improve their performance
- Helping software engineers to break down squad objectives into something they can deliver
- Providing and receiving honest feedback, fostering open communication
- Helping build and embody Clipchamp's high-performance and healthy engineering culture and principles
- Conducting regular one-on-ones, identifying top performers and supporting their growth into leadership roles

**Qualifications**:
**Who we’re looking for**:

- 2+ years managing software engineering teams
- 4+ years software engineering experience
- Strong servant leadership skills and passion for supporting and developing people
- Proven experience recruiting, hiring, coaching and defining growth paths for engineering teams
- Great communication - you can consider others’ ideas, implement new methods, surface and resolve disagreements and empathize with users without breaking a sweat
- Ambition to get things done, now, the fast lane, no bureaucracy, idleness is boring

**Bonus points if you love**:

- Online video and contributing to the technically challenging problems we’re solving
- Startups - incomplete briefs, unpredictability, urgency, the need for initiative and the rapid growth opportunities that come with it
- Maxing out what browsers can do, that’s what we’re about We were told you can’t build a video editing platform in browser, including encoding the final video - but we did

Please note: All new employees of OMG/Clipchamp will be required to partake in a background check.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Clipchamp #OMG #Office Media Group

Australia #Sydney #Melbourne #Brisbane #Perth #Darwin #Hobart #New Zealand #Remote