About Agora
Agora is the world’s leading video, voice and live interactive streaming platform, helping developers deliver rich in-app experiences – including embedded voice and video chat, real-time recording, interactive live streaming, and real-time messaging.
We power an average of over 60,000,000,000 minutes of human connection per month across the globe. Our mission is to make real-time engagement ubiquitous, allowing everyone to interact with anyone, anytime and anywhere.
We are customer-centric and results driven, and we foster an environment that values diversity, teamwork, mindful communication and excellence. With accelerating global growth, we are looking for exceptional people to enhance our team of world-class technology evangelists. This is a rare opportunity to join a fast-growing multinational company that both values teamwork and recognizes individual impact. Your voice and ideas are welcome here.
Position Summary
The mission of the Developer Evangelist team is to win the hearts and minds of Developers to secure the future of the platform. As a Developer Evangelist, you’ll be instrumental in building a large and vibrant developer community for Agora real-time communication cloud services. You will be leading the prioritization and design of use case demo apps that will help accelerate developer adoption of our platform. You’ll build and nurture great relationships with developers online and offline, create amazing sample codes, be our developer ambassador, trainer and guide-to-all-things for the developer community. You will also be a key partner to our Sales, Engineering, Marketing and Product teams, delivering outstanding content and feedback to internal teams to improve developer experience.
Responsibilities
● Design and create demo apps, reference apps and sample codes that closely match our target customer use cases. Publicly share the source code on Github, blog posts, and other developer channels.
● Create and deliver training content, tutorials, starter kits, best practices, and provide feedback on Agora developer documentation as needed.
● Champion relevant Agora products and services to your target community at conferences, meetups, coding boot camps, online forums, Twitter, Stack Overflow, Hacker News, and more.
● Evangelize new Agora services, features, and products to the technical stakeholder community.
● Build relationships with key influencers, foster a healthy technical community, and collect and prioritize product feedback and technical blockers with Product and Engineering teams.
● Explore technologies (i.e. Augmented reality) that could complement Agora’s real-time communication to solve customer uses cases.
● Use data, experiments, and customer feedback to drive growth in your community.
A Sr. Developer Evangelist will do the same as a Developer Evangelist plus:
• Mentor teammates and support team members, including senior staff, in content creation efforts
• Lead cross-functional projects with team members across the organization
Required Skills, Experience and Competencies
● 2-3 years of overall experience, and previous experience as an app developer.
● Technical acumen and ability to write code for mobile and/or web applications; must have skills in at least three of these languages/frameworks: JavaScript (strongly preferred), Android (strongly preferred), Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin, Electron, ReactNative.
● Excellent communication skills - ability to be both a strong technical writer as well as a dynamic public speaker.
● Passion for helping developers connect people and communities through the cloud.
● Proven experience working with 3rd party communities, social media and blogging required.
● Experience conducting one or all of these is highly preferred: webinars, podcasts, presentations, training and writing blogs.
● A Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience/education, is required.
● Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.
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Agora values its employees and provides a complete compensation package that includes benefits, equity and competitive base salaries.
Agora is an equal opportunity employer and makes hiring decisions solely on the basis of merit.