Senior Backend Software Engineer

Job Description

We are seeking a backend engineer to join a large Media company! The Content APIs team is helping to design, build, and maintain the services that power the media company's digital experiences. It's a fast-paced, collaborative environment where this engineer will own the end-to-end API and microservice development, from API schema design through deployment and monitoring.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Design and implement GraphQL APIs and resolvers to expose content data

• Design and implement content ingestion pipelines, storing/indexing data in MongoDB

and Elasticsearch backends

• Build, test, and maintain microservices in Golang and Node.js

• Develop serverless functions on AWS Lambda, integrating with API Gateway,

DynamoDB, SNS, etc.

• Architect for scalability, reliability, and performance in a microservice ecosystem

• Design and maintain content caching and cache-invalidation strategies to optimize

distributed system performance

• Collaborate closely with product owners, frontend engineers, and DevOps

• Own QA: write strong unit tests and end-to-end tests to ensure code quality

• Participate in code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions

• Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous improvements to CI/CD pipelines

and monitoring

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Skills and Requirements

• 8+ years as a backend or API engineer

• Strong proficiency in Golang and Node.js

• Hands-on experience designing and consuming GraphQL services

• Solid understanding of AWS serverless architectures, especially Lambda

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

• Deep knowledge of microservices patterns (service discovery, circuit breakers,

distributed tracing)

• Proven track record in collaborative, agile teams - Prior work in media, streaming, or content-heavy applications

• Good grasp of GraphQL/RESTful API best practices and API versioning strategies

• Experience with MongoDB and Elasticsearch, including data modeling and optimization

• Strong communicator who enjoys mentoring junior engineers and contributing to

architectural decisions