Senior Golang Fullstack Software Engineer

Our client is the leading free streaming television service in America, delivering 250+ live and original channels and thousands of on-demand movies in partnership with major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. The product is available on all mobile, web, and connected TV streaming devices, and millions of viewers tune in each month to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, lifestyle, and trending digital series. Headquartered in West Hollywood, has offices in New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago, and Berlin.

Customer creates entertainment experiences that drive conversation and culture around the world. Through television, film, digital media, live events, merchandise, and solutions, our brands connect with diverse, young, and the young at heart audiences in more than 180 countries.

We are looking for a highly skilled Software Engineer with strong experience in Java, distributed systems, and stream-based processing to join our engineering team. You will design, build, and operate backend services that handle high-throughput workloads, integrate with cloud platforms, and support business-critical applications. This role also involves working with Node.js services, CI/CD pipelines, and modern infrastructure tooling, including Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, AWS, and GCP.

• Interview process that respects people and their time
• Professional and open IT community
• Internal meet-ups and resources for knowledge sharing
• Time for recovery and relaxation
• Bright online and offline events
• Opportunity to become part of our internal volunteer community

• Design, implementation and deployment of new scalable and secure Golang and Node.js services.
• Refactoring and modernizing of legacy services.
• Integration of external services.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure other developers adhere to team’s best practices and processes.
• Actively participate in the design & architecture phases of upcoming features and services.
• Work collaboratively and productively with other project team members from Product, Program Management, and QA.
• Provide realistic (not optimistic) LOE estimates during Quarterly PI planning, accounting for likely set-backs and external constraints.
• Prototyping of new technologies to reduce cost and increase engineer velocity.

• Experienced full-stack developer that will be focusing initially on backend Java development
• BS degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field required
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience developing application services using Golang + Node + Mongo + Express + front-end frameworks/libraries like Canjs or React.
• 3+ years of experience building highly scalable, performant and responsive web applications
• 3-5 years of experience developing applications deployed on cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)(preferred) or comparable cloud provider
• 2+ years of Golang experience
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
• VOD Streaming experience is desired
• Experience with as much of our technology stack as possible: AWS, Golang, Node.js, MongoDB, Javascript, React, Git
• Bonus: Google Cloud, Java Spring Boot, Postgresql
• Ability to work within a distributed team