Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. iSpot is a media and advertising technology company operating a high-scale AWS environment that processes massive streams of media metadata. The Senior Software Development Engineer will own technical domains, design scalable and reliable systems, advance AI-native development practices, improve platform and operational efficiency, and mentor engineers while collaborating cross-functionally.
Responsibilities
- Coding & Debugging: Design domains with testability and multiple teams in mind, creating extensible and shareable codebases. Provide prescriptive code reviews that suggest more acceptable code patterns and contribute to company-wide style guidelines
- Quality & Release: Maintain a high standard of quality, setting the example for the team. Develop the architecture for our automation systems and expertly debug complex issues within the CI/CD pipeline. Implement secure deployment strategies, especially for large-scale, high-risk projects
- AI-First Mindset: Be “AI-native.” Actively explore and learn about AI technologies that enhance the efficiency of the entire team’s work
- Leading Adoption: Don’t just use AI; “create space” for teammates to improve their AI tooling through pairing, providing demos, and writing documentation
- Creative Problem Solving: Act as a pioneer in critical technologies, bringing creative solutions to complex, large-scale projects and ensuring your contributions can be extended far into the future
- Data-Driven RCA: Propose and implement viable domain measurement solutions. Play a lead role in researching external solutions and leading root cause analysis (RCA) for complex, multi-domain incidents
- Operational Efficiency & Toil Reduction: Proactively improve the current state of operations by identifying and reducing toil. Apply a “Platform Engineering” mindset to automate repetitive manual tasks, ensuring the team remains focused on high-value engineering
- Scalability & Influence: Build internal networks to improve organizational speed and the quality of technology solutions, removing obstacles for the team as they arise. Serve as the “go-to” person for the team, identifying trends and introducing broad solutions to address systemic issues
- Cost-Conscious Engineering: Drive a mature cost-optimization strategy, ensuring that architectural decisions and cloud resource utilization are both performant and cost-efficient. Balance technical excellence with business value, treating cost-consciousness as a core pillar of system reliability
- Strategic Alignment: Routinely work cross-functionally to align partners and stakeholders with the project vision and strategy
- Mentorship: Mentor less experienced team members, ensuring your communication promotes clarity and inspires action. Onboard and coach other engineers in adopting an AI-first mindset, focusing on low-risk strategies
- Conflict Resolution: Handle personal conflicts within the team and navigate ambiguity to reach strategic milestones
Skills
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States
- * **Experience:** Significant experience developing software for shareable features across multiple engineering projects
- Experience leading small-to-mid-sized technical initiatives is required
- * **Architectural Leadership:** Proven ability to make high-level architectural decisions, including redesigning legacy services to ensure they are highly reliable and operable
- Follows industry best practices for high-availability API design and the streamlining of complex database operations
- * **Platform Engineering:** Hands-on experience with Platform Engineering principles, focusing on internal developer experience, infrastructure abstraction, and building self-service capabilities for engineering teams
- * **Cloud Native:** Expert knowledge of AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, IAM)
- * **Tech Required:** Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, RabbitMQ (or similar message broker), Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines
- * **AI Native:** Experience using AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development (e.g., Kiro, Gemini, Copilot, Cursor, or similar, Claude Code)
- * **Soft Skills:** Strong communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences (from junior devs to senior leadership)
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- * Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD concepts (CircleCI)
- * A track record of identifying trends in incidents and introducing broad solutions to address them
Benefits
- All full time iSpotters are eligible to participate in iSpot’s equity plan to receive stock options.
- Variable commission for employees in eligible roles.
- Annual bonus targets for eligible roles.
- Non-exempt roles will also be eligible for (pre-approved) overtime pay.
- Hybrid and flexible workplace: those local or living in surrounding areas to one of iSpot’s offices (Bellevue, WA or New York, NY) will work a hybrid schedule, coming into their local office 1-3 days a week.
- Employees in roles that are not office-based and are located further away from iSpot’s offices will work a fully remote schedule.
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