188 Web Engineer jobs in Hong Kong

Viu, a leading pan-regional over-the-top (OTT) video streaming service, is available across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. We serve a large user base of 62M monthly active users (December 2023) and 13.4M premium subscribers and counting.

We are seeking a talented Web Engineer to join our team. As a member in web team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our web streaming platform for better user experience and engagement through strategic insights and continuous data analysis from different teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop web applications, ensure that they are scalable, maintainable, and meet business requirements
• Build components and libraries in a readable and reusable manner
• Optimize applications to improve speed and scalability
• Work closely with product team to clarify project requirements
• Perform troubleshooting for ongoing production issues
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies and best practices in web development

Requirements

• Proven experience in software and web development
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, and related web technologies
• Proven experience in complex projects, with a deep understanding of software and website development methodologies and best practices
• Experience with React, Vue, Angular, or other modern front-end frameworks
• Experience with HTML5 video player development is a plus
• Experience with Agile development methodologies is a plus
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
• Be self-motivated and able to work independently without supervision
• Fast learner with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Great command of both written and spoken English and Mandarin

Why Joining Us

• Opportunity to work on web projects that handle high traffic volume and performance requirements, with a strong emphasis on web development best practices
• Streamlined team structure, you will be able to work independently with the priority always on getting the job well done
• Guidance and mentorship to help teammates overcome challenging tasks and polish their professional skills
• Attractive remuneration package and benefits such as medical insurance, birthday leave, etc.

Viu, a leading pan-regional over-the-top (OTT) video streaming service, is available across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. We serve a large user base of 62M monthly active users (December 2023) and 13.4M premium subscribers (2023) and counting.

We are seeking a talented Web Engineer to join our team. As a member in the web team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our web streaming platform for better user experience and engagement through strategic insights and continuous data analysis from different teams.

• Develop web applications, ensure that they are scalable, maintainable, and meet business requirements
• Build components and libraries in a readable and reusable manner
• Optimize applications to improve speed and scalability
• Work closely with product team to clarify project requirements
• Perform troubleshooting for ongoing production issues
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies and best practices in web development

• Proven experience in software and web development
• Proven experience in complex projects, with a deep understanding of software and website development methodologies and best practices
• Experience with React, Vue, Angular, or other modern front-end frameworks
• Experience with HTML5 video player development is a plus
• Experience with Agile development methodologies is a plus
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
• Be self-motivated and able to work independently without supervision
• Fast learner with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Great command of both written and spoken English and Mandarin

• Opportunity to work on web projects that handle high traffic volume and performance requirements, with a strong emphasis on web development best practices
• Streamlined team structure, you will be able to work independently with the priority always on getting the job well done
• Guidance and mentorship to help teammates overcome challenging tasks and polish their professional skills
• Attractive remuneration package and benefits such as medical insurance, birthday leave, etc.

Location: Kwun Tong District, Hong Kong SAR

Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of globally distributed collaboration, with 1100+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable and growing.

Location : This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

We are hiring a Senior Web Engineer on the Web Engineering team to drive best practices across the team, identify risks, and lead technical conversations. They identify risks and communicate them to relevant stakeholders, asking the right questions to move a project forward. Within the team there are opportunities to gain deep technical knowledge of complex products in innovative and fast-growing areas with space to hone your craft. We value transparency, intellectual honesty and teamwork. You will own the development of large projects, encourage rigorous and efficient engineering processes, write specifications and understand risks, work to reduce complexity, and take on technical lead responsibilities to drive initiatives to completion. You will follow industry trends and new technologies, and represent your team as a subject-matter expert with cross-team credibility. You will mentor and develop those around you in a structured and systematic manner, sharing this responsibility with your manager.

• Identifying what matters for the team and driving initiatives to improve them
• Design and implement well-tested and documented software
• Debug and fix issues encountered by your users
• Leading in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews
• Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind
• Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices
• Deploy and operate services developed by the team
• Contribute to the success of your product through technical advocacy

• Curate technical quality standards by designing the architectural approach to support business objectives
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
• Drive and a track record of going above and beyond expectations
• Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
• Displays competency in researching new technology or approaches, and is able to tastefully and sustainably integrate changes and more modern approaches to technical projects
• Provides comprehensive and insightful code review on items of any size within the project
• An eye for accessibility and performance
• Professional written and spoken English
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events for up to two weeks each

• Experience with container tech such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience fostering and maintaining a talented team by defining excellence
• REST API design, development and governance
• Drive to deliver performance engineering and security experience

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal-opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology

• Software Development

Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of globally distributed collaboration, with 1100+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable and growing.

Location : This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

We are hiring a Senior Web Engineer on the Web Engineering team to drive best practices across the team, identify risks, and lead technical conversations. They identify risks and communicate them to relevant stakeholders, asking the right questions to move a project forward. Within the team there are opportunities to gain deep technical knowledge of complex products in innovative and fast-growing areas with space to hone your craft. We value transparency, intellectual honesty and teamwork. You will own the development of large projects, encourage rigorous and efficient engineering processes, write specifications and understand risks, work to reduce complexity, and take on technical lead responsibilities to drive initiatives to completion. You will follow industry trends and new technologies, and represent your team as a subject-matter expert with cross-team credibility. You will mentor and develop those around you in a structured and systematic manner, sharing this responsibility with your manager.

• Identifying what matters for the team and driving initiatives to improve them
• Design and implement well-tested and documented software
• Debug and fix issues encountered by your users
• Leading in our engineering process through code and architectural reviews
• Contribute to technical documentation to make it the best of its kind
• Seek improvements to engineering and operations practices
• Deploy and operate services developed by the team
• Contribute to the success of your product through technical advocacy

• Curate technical quality standards by designing the architectural approach to support business objectives
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
• Drive and a track record of going above and beyond expectations
• Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
• Displays competency in researching new technology or approaches, and is able to tastefully and sustainably integrate changes and more modern approaches to technical projects
• Provides comprehensive and insightful code review on items of any size within the project
• An eye for accessibility and performance
• Professional written and spoken English
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events for up to two weeks each

• Experience with container tech such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience fostering and maintaining a talented team by defining excellence
• REST API design, development and governance
• Drive to deliver performance engineering and security experience

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal-opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology

• Software Development

Overview

• Develop, implement the web engine and web app framework.
• Optimize rendering performance and memory usage of web engine.
• Build new web technologies and apply to engineering.

Qualifications

• A BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.

Required Skills

• Excellent design, coding, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Competence in writing at least one of the programming languages in C / C++ / Rust.

Preferred Skills

• Good knowledge of popular web engines, e.g. Blink/V8/Webkit and etc is a plus.
• Good knowledge of new Web technologies, like WASM, WebXR and etc is a plus.
• Good knowledge of architecture of framework, like Angular, React, Vue and etc is a plus.
• Good knowledge of Android or iOS is a plus.

• Not Applicable

• Full-time

• Information Technology, Engineering, and Research

• Software Development

We’re refining the job description to remove boilerplate and ensure the responsibilities and requirements are clearly presented.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development, testing and performance analysis of Web API;
• Responsible for communication and support of application technology with customers.

Job requirements:

• Bachelor degree or above in computer related major or related professional experience;
• strong learning ability, strong teamwork ability, and strong communication skills.

Ideal requirements:

• Familiarity with a web development framework (e.g., Django, Flask, AngularJS, Meteor, RoR, etc.).
• Familiarity with databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, etc.).
• Familiarity with setting up web servers (e.g., Apache, Nginx, Gunicorn, etc.).
• Familiarity with Bash and Python.
• Experience with developing multi-concurrent web services is preferred.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development, testing and performance analysis of Web API;
• Responsible for communication and support of application technology with customers.

Job requirements:

• Bachelor degree or above in computer related major or related professional experience;
• Strong learning ability, strong teamwork ability, strong communication ability.

Ideal requirements:

• Familiarity with a web development framework (e.g., Django, Flask, AngularJS, Meteor, RoR, etc.).
• Familiarity with databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, etc.).
• Familiarity with setting up web servers (e.g., Apache, Nginx, Gunicorn, etc.).
• Familiarity with Bash and Python.
• Experience with developing multi-concurrent web services is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement the web engine and web app framework.
• Optimize rendering performance and memory usage of web engine.
• Build new web technologies and apply to engineering.

Qualifications

• A BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.

Required Skills

• Excellent design, coding, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Competence in writing at least one of the programming languages in C / C++ / Rust.

Preferred Skills

• Good knowledge of popular web engines, e.g. Blink/V8/Webkit and etc is a plus.
• Good knowledge of new Web technologies, like WASM, WebXR and etc is a plus.
• Good knowledge of architecture of framework, like Angular, React, Vue and etc is a plus.
• Good knowledge of Android or iOS is a plus.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development, testing and performance analysis of Web API;
• Responsible for communication and support of application technology with customers.

Job requirements:

• Bachelor degree or above in computer related major or related professional experience;
• Strong learning ability, strong teamwork ability, strong communication ability.

Ideal requirements:

• Familiarity with a web development framework (e.g., Django, Flask, AngularJS, Meteor, RoR, etc.).
• Familiarity with databases (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, etc.).
• Familiarity with setting up web servers (e.g., Apache, Nginx, Gunicorn, etc.).
• Familiarity with Bash and Python.
• Experience with developing multi-concurrent web services is preferred.