Senior node.js backend software engineer

About the Client

Our Client is a free online television service broadcasting over 75 live channels full of TV shows, movies and Internet videos, all on one dial. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California. TechHive, a home technology review site, is referred as the best cord-cutting application. The product runs as an app on AppleTV, Android TV, Amazon Fire Stick, Roku, and PlayStation. The company currently has around 75 content partners. The company also as of October 2016 has around 5 million monthly active users up from 500,000 in early 2015. This video-streaming product generates revenue from video advertisements between programming, and has a goal to continue to stay as free television.

Project Details

Our client is led by a seasoned team of entrepreneurs, TV and technology executives, and top-of-class team members. $43M+ funding with investors like US Venture Partners, Sky, Chicago Ventures, Universal Music Group, United Talent Agency and Pritzker Group.Top app with millions of users across platforms like web, iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Vizio, Samsung, and more. One of the hottest startups in Los Angeles and one of the leading video platforms in the industry – often covered in NY Times, Forbes, Techcrunch, Variety, USA Today, CNN, Mashable and more! High energy culture. Passionate entrepreneurial team. Massive market. Employing the best of the best in the industry.We’re building the future of television.

Your Team

Our team is led by some of the best entrepreneurs and executives in media and technology. Our Executive Chairman was the Chief Content Officer of Spotify. Our co-founder and CEO was the CEO of Threadless and board member of Trunk Club and Smule. Our principal architect built the first Roku for Netflix. You’ll be joining a world-class startup team, with multiple exits under their belt, to build the future of television. Our team solves business and technology problems. We run many experiments. We iterate on successful tests and turn them into products. We deploy those products across our apps to millions of users. We obsess over data. We run a lean, agile, vegan, non-gmo, all organic development process. Our team is aligned with company goals and KPIs. We have autonomy on how to solve problems. We bring out the entrepreneur in every engineer. We work together to build the future of TV.

What's in for you

• 20 days per year for your recreation and health
• Long term and stable projects
• Strong experts you can collaborate with and learn from
• Smooth and respectful interviews

Responsabilities

• Implementing backend services using Node.js, PostgreSQL / Mongo DB, AWS etc.
• Participating in design reviews and recommending new technology to make ad services robust and easily maintainable.
• Working with Product Managers and other scrum teams.

Skills

• 5+ years of backend software development experience.
• Upper-intermediate level of English
• Experience in implementing backend services using Node.js
• Experience with AWS, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB