Job Description
We love technology, and we enjoy what we do. We are always looking for innovation. We have social awareness and strive to improve it daily. We make things happen. You can trust us. Our Enrouters are always up for a challenge. We ask questions, and we love to learn. We pride ourselves on having great benefits and compensations, a fantastic work environment, flexible schedules, and policies that positively impact the balance of work and life outside of it.
At Enroute, we are looking for a Mid-Level Video Engineer to join a high-impact engineering team responsible for building, supporting, and optimizing scalable video streaming solutions.
The ideal candidate has solid backend development experience—especially with Node.js—and hands-on familiarity with video technologies, adaptive streaming, and media delivery systems. This role is perfect for someone who enjoys working with real-time data streams, video processing pipelines, and distributed systems.
You will work closely with video segments, APIs, backend services, and streaming workflows that support video processing, analysis, and delivery. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in technically complex environments, enjoys troubleshooting, and is passionate about improving performance and reliability at scale.
This role requires availability to support APAC time zones, with an expected working schedule between 6:00 PM – 5:00 AM (CDMX time). We are open to candidates based in APAC regions such as India, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, and other countries within similar time zones who can accommodate this schedule.
✅ Must-Have Requirements
Backend & Engineering
- Strong experience with Node.js in backend, microservices, or data-streaming environments
- Experience building and maintaining APIs and backend services
- Experience working with microservices architectures
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills
Video & Streaming
- Working knowledge of HLS and adaptive streaming
- Understanding of video formats, segmented video, and media delivery workflows
- Hands-on experience with FFmpeg, media codecs, and video processing concepts
Data & Systems
- Experience working with data streams and event-driven architectures
- Ability to work in distributed systems and scalable environments
✨ Nice-to-Have Requirements (Extras)
Experience with TypeScript, Python, or other backend languages
Familiarity with video tools such as GStreamer, OpenCV, or VLC
Knowledge of streaming protocols such as RTMP or WebRTC
Experience with:
- Cloud storage (e.g., Amazon S3)
- CDNs (Content Delivery Networks)
- Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
Experience optimizing:
- Network performance
- Disk I/O
- Processing performance for large media files
🎯 Responsibilities
Use Node.js to process and manage data streams in a microservices-based environment
Build and support workflows for fetching, handling, and analyzing video segments
Implement and troubleshoot video workflows involving HLS, adaptive streaming, FFmpeg, and codecs
Develop and maintain APIs for video delivery, metadata handling, and backend integrations
Work with event-driven architectures for real-time or near-real-time video processing
Collaborate with developers, QA engineers, and operations teams to improve:
- Streaming quality
- Performance
- Reliability
Identify technical issues, propose improvements, and support scalable backend solutions
Contribute to system optimization across network, storage, and processing layers
Benefits
- Monetary compensation
- Year-end Bonus
- IMSS, AFORE, INFONAVIT
- Major Medical Expenses Insurance
- Minor Medical Expenses Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Funeral Expenses Insurance
- Preferential rates for car insurance
- TDU Membership
- Holidays and Vacations
- Sick days
- Bereavement days
- Civil Marriage days
- Maternity & Paternity leave
- English and Spanish classes
- Performance Management Framework
- Certifications
- TALISIS Agreement: Discounts at ADVENIO, Harmon Hall, U-ERRE, UNID
- Taquitos Rewards
- Amazon Gift Card on your Birthday
- Work-from-home Bonus
- Laptop Policy
Equal employment
Enroute is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
