Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Whip Media is transforming the global content licensing ecosystem with a market leading enterprise software platform that centrally connects data, processes and teams throughout the digital distribution journey. Powered by predictive insights and proprietary data, we enable the world’s top entertainment organizations to efficiently distribute, control and monetize their TV and movie content to drive revenue and direct-to-consumer growth.
Whip Media is primarily a Java, Spring, JavaScript, Python and PostgreSQL shop, but we also leverage a wide variety of technologies like Amazon Web Services. Our platform helps leading media and entertainment companies operate more efficiently with greater visibility and control in the new world of digital distribution.
What will you do?
- Design and write new APIs and data processing code in Java or Python
- Create new data models to handle our ever-increasing data volume
- Devise algorithms to handle data synchronization across distributed systems
- Write technical requirements and design documents
- Work closely with a cross-functional team on the development of our new platforms and internal tools
- Design and implement ETL processes that integrate with a variety of customer and third-party data sources
What do you need?
- Bachelors or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of experience with software design and development skills in Java.
- Experience with Spring and core Spring components (especially Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Data and Spring Data REST)
- Familiarity with agile development
- Experience and comfort working in a startup or fast moving environment
- Experience with data modeling, in both SQL (ideally PostgreSQL) and non-relational technologies
- Experience with data warehousing, ideally with Amazon Redshift, a plus
- Experience with AWS APIs and services a plus (s3, lambda, SNS, SQS)
- Experience with Web Services (REST) a plus
- Experience with a scripting language, ideally Python, a plus
- Experience with git and unit testing
- Experience mentoring other engineers
Whip Media prioritizes the health and well-being of employees and vaccines are the best tool currently available to help control this global pandemic and protect our employees. Therefore, for everyone's safety, as a condition of employment: all employees will be required to demonstrate that they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to the commencement of their employment (subject to the availability of reasonable accommodation when required by law). Some roles may be 100% remote, and could be exempt from the vaccine mandate.
Requirements may change in the future with the evolving public health landscape.