Senior Node.js Full Stack Engineer

Our Customer 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 service 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, the company has offices in New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago, and Berlin.

The company 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 full-stack experience, expertise in

distributed systems, and an understanding of product analytics tools to join our engineering team. You

will design, build, and 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

This is a critical role with a wide range of responsibilities, including:

• Design, implement, and maintain distributed backend services using Node.js and front-end applications in React
• Develop scalable, resilient APIs and backend services.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following industry best practices.
• Deploy, monitor, and support applications running on Kubernetes across cloud environments.
• Work closely with architects and product teams to design system components and integrations.
• Participate in code reviews, system design discussions, and operational readiness efforts.
• Troubleshoot production issues across services and infrastructure.
• Prototyping of new technologies to reduce cost and increase engineering velocity.

We believe the right individual will have the following skills and experience to be successful in this role:

• A BS degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field is required 
• 5+years of software engineering experience
• Strong Node.js experience in backend or distributed systems environments.
• Proficiency in React for front-end application development.
• Experience deploying and maintaining services running in Kubernetes
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP cloud platforms.
• Solid understanding of software design patterns, system architecture, and microservices principles.
•  Experience working with MongoDB and PostgreSQL (schema design, performance considerations, migrations).
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
• Ability to work within a distributed team

 Nice to have:

• Experience with React (basic front-end integration work, context management, UI components).
• Exposure to product analytics tools like Mixpanel, Optimizely, etc.
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Helm, etc.).
• Monitoring/observability tools (Datadog, NewRelic).