Senior Backend API Software Engineer

Overview: 

Spotter is a platform for Creators, providing services and software designed to accelerate growth for the world’s best Creators and brands. Creators working with Spotter can access the capital, knowledge, community, and personalized AI software products they need to succeed. With unique knowledge of how Creators work, the resources they need to grow, and the challenges they face, Spotter is empowering top YouTube Creators to succeed.

Spotter has already deployed over $940 million to YouTube Creators to reinvest in themselves and accelerate their growth, with plans to reach $1 billion in investment by 2024. With a premium catalog that spans over 725,000 videos, Spotter generates more than 88 billion monthly watch-time minutes, delivering a unique scaled media solution to Advertisers and Ad Agencies that is transparent, efficient, and 100% brand safe. For more information about Spotter, please visit https://spotter.com.

Are you ready to become a pivotal member of Spotter's outstanding data engineering team? 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.

Overview:

You are a Senior-level Backend Software Engineer with experience building performant API services that serve data at large scale

What You’ll Do:

• 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

Who You Are: 

• 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

Additional Valued Skills: 

• 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

Why Spotter

• Medical and vision insurance covered up to 100%
• Dental insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Stock options
• Complimentary gym access
• Autonomy and upward mobility
• Diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture, where your voice matters.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles that will be performed in Culver City. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The overall market range for roles in this area of Spotter are typically: $160K-$200K salary per year. The range listed is just one component of Spotter’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual discretionary bonus and equity. 

Spotter is an equal opportunity employer. Spotter does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic characteristics or information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, use of or request for family or medical leave, political affiliation, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state or local laws. 

Equal access to programs, services and employment is available to all persons. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodations as part of the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.