Senior Backend API Software Engineer, Spotter

$100-500k

+ Stock options

SQL
AWS
GCP
Python
Django
Node.js
Postgres
Azure
Redshift
REST API
DynamoDB
Senior and Expert level
Los Angeles

3-4 days a week in office (Culver City, CA)

Spotter

Finance solution for content creators

Open for applications

Spotter

Finance solution for content creators

201-500 employees

FintechB2BLendingDigital MediaSaaS

Open for applications

$100-500k

+ Stock options

SQL
AWS
GCP
Python
Django
Node.js
Postgres
Azure
Redshift
REST API
DynamoDB
Senior and Expert level
Los Angeles

3-4 days a week in office (Culver City, CA)

201-500 employees

FintechB2BLendingDigital MediaSaaS

Company mission

To catapult creative potential with lucrative deals that make you unstoppable.

Role

Who you are

  • You are a Senior-level Backend Software Engineer with experience building performant API services that serve data at large scale
  • Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar technical or engineering discipline
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience specializing in backend services
  • Proficient with Python (Django) to serve large scale datasets
  • Experience running software and services in the cloud
  • Proficiency with SQL on RDBMS and data warehouse solutions like Redshift
  • Proficiency with maintaining fault tolerant systems in production
  • Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure

Desirable

  • Experience with YouTube APIs and YouTube/video performance data
  • Experience with data acquisition from external APIs at large scale / in parallel processing
  • Experience with Data-Lake technologies
  • Experience with vector databases
  • Experience with AWS Glue metastore
  • Experience with Data-Mesh approaches
  • Experience with data cataloging, data lineage and data governance tools and approaches

What the job involves

  • We are in search of a talented Senior Backend API Software Engineer specializing in scalable data serving via Restful APIs, and working with big data sets from various databases
  • This position will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and optimizing data infrastructure
  • You will be a key player empowering us to make data-driven SaaS applications and internal system integrations that will fuel our innovation and growth
  • Design and develop RESTful APIs for internal data consumers using performant API frameworks such as Python Django, NodeJS or similar
  • Ensure optimal latency, authentication, and scalability of Spotter Data API. Follow API server best practices and standards
  • Implement and maintain backend transactional databases and document stores, ensuring data integrity and consistency
  • Work closely with the data engineering team to understand existing datasets that need to be queried via API endpoints
  • Work with various database systems (Postgres, Elastic Search, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, vector databases, data warehouses) and data lake technologies, applying optimization techniques for scalable queries
  • Explore new scalable solutions to meet our growing needs
  • Work with product engineering team to learn about the upcoming needs
  • Benchmark existing solutions periodically to ensure low latency, make recommendations when needed

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

33% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Medical insurance covered up to 100%
  • Dental & vision insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Stock options
  • Autonomy and upward mobility

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Sep 2024

$7.4m

LATE VC

Sep 2022

$9.4m

LATE VC

Total funding: $247.4m

Our take

Spotter offers digital-creatives the opportunity to transform content creation as a hobby to a full-time job by providing them with the capital to do so. The company provides cash upfront to creators in exchange for ownership of any future ad revenue their videos generate.

Not dissimilar to venture capital investments, Spotter has applied this model to the digital content world, an increasingly lucrative industry. It is well placed to continue rapid ascension given its impressive clientele, some of YouTube’s most popular creators - such as Mr.Beast and Dude Perfect - whose cumulative content has amassed a combined 50 billion minutes in watch time.

2022 investment from Japan’s SoftBank and further venture capital positions Spotter to invest $1 billion with YouTube creators through 2023, cementing it as the leading partner of content creation.

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