Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Job
Senior Software Engineer

POSITION TITLE: Senior Software Engineer

Experience: 5+ years
Location: Onsite
Industry: Media & Entertainment
ABOUT THE ROLE:
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in with expertise in backend systems, databases, and cloud platforms. This role blends hands-on backend engineering with higher-level responsibilities in design, architecture, and team leadership. You'll play a key role in shaping solutions, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software.
This role requires strong technical depth combined with the ability to design scalable systems, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver business-critical solutions.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Lead the design and development of backend services and APIs using modern backend frameworks.
• Design and implement backend systems that are highly scalable and easily expandable, ensuring they can adapt to evolving business needs and future growth.
• Contribute to system architecture discussions and own module/service-level designs.
• Design and build client-facing APIs that are scalable, reliable, and secure, ensuring services and APIs comply with security best practices in collaboration with the security team.
• Design and build internal APIs that are consumed by frontend applications and services.
• Write clean, maintainable, and performant code.
• Design and optimize solutions using relational and non-relational databases.
• Adopt and champion AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and share best practices across the team.
• Partner with QA to deliver quality features in a timely manner.
• Ensure sufficient unit test coverage for backend services, working closely with the Tech Lead to validate test quality and completeness.
• Support and mentor junior engineers in writing effective unit tests and fostering a test-first mindset.
• Collaborate with product managers to refine requirements and ensure engineering alignment with business goals.
• Partner with engineers to confirm solutions meet product and technical requirements.
• Contribute to Agile development processes by participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and ensuring timely delivery of features.
• Guide junior engineers through mentorship, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Champion best practices in CI/CD, containerization, and observability/monitoring.
• Contribute to technical decision-making and process improvements.
• Participate in the hiring and interview process as needed.
QUALIFICATIONS:
• 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
• Strong proficiency in backend service development
• Strong hands-on experience with relational databases
• Hands-on experience working with to non-relational databases
• Experience with distributed systems, including microservices and event-driven messaging architectures
• Proven experience with AWS (preferred) or other cloud platforms and building distributed, scalable systems
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Git, and containerization
• Experience embedding security and compliance best practices into backend and API design
• Strong understanding of system design principles, including scalability, performance optimization, and high availability.
• Proficiency in leveraging and evaluating AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development, improve code quality, and enhance productivity.
• Experience implementing observability practices, including monitoring, logging, and alerting, to ensure system reliability.
• Strong experience in Agile development, including contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives to ensure high-quality delivery.
• Experience writing and maintaining unit and integration tests, with the ability to guide less-experienced engineers in adopting testing best practices.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• Media & entertainment industry experience
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Nomad)
• Exposure to multiple backend frameworks is a plus (including .NET Core and its ecosystem)
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted tools, and advocate for their adoption to improve engineering productivity.
SOFT SKILLS:
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to work effectively with product managers, frontend engineers, QA, and backend peers.
• Ability to mentor and guide junior engineers effectively
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving ability
• Proactive ownership of projects and deliverables
• Adaptability in fast-changing environments
• Ability to balance hands-on contributions with mentoring and influencing technical direction across the team

This role is based in Los Angeles, California and the base pay range for this role is $161,500.00 - $190,000.00 annually. Actual amounts will vary depending on education, skills, experience, and geographic location.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-new19k-216-73-216-131-42 in your application.