Lead Software Engineer – Content Systems

🕒 May 17

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $157k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Paramount

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1912

📱 Media

👥 B2C

Media • B2C • Entertainment

Paramount is a global multimedia entertainment and news company that offers a range of services including direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming through Paramount+. It also owns Pluto TV, a leading free streaming television service, MTV, the world’s premier youth entertainment brand, and CBS Sports, a leader in television sports broadcasts. Paramount Pictures, since 1912, has been a legendary producer and distributor of films, hosting a library of over 1,000 titles. The company is deeply committed to inclusion and impact, focusing on diversity, global sustainability, and content that affects change. Being a significant player in both live and on-demand streaming services, Paramount embraces a wide array of content from sports to kids’ entertainment, comedy, and groundbreaking documentaries, impacting both linear and streaming platforms globally.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable APIs that power content management, metadata services, and interaction experiences • Lead the evolution of Content Systems APIs, including content ingestion, metadata management, search, and editorial workflows • Define and apply API standards and best practices, including versioning, contract design, and backward compatibility • Evolve existing content metadata models and services to support personalization, discoverability, and real-time engagement use cases • Integrate Content Systems with personalization engines, enabling real-time decisioning based on content metadata and user behavior • Collaborate with content, editorial, and product teams to ensure APIs support content lifecycle workflows (ingestion, curation, publishing, and updates) • Design APIs for event-driven content pipelines, integrating with Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar messaging platforms • Enable seamless data flow between content systems, personalization services, ad systems, and client applications • Optimize APIs for performance, scalability, and reliability under high traffic conditions and global usage • Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate API and service development, testing, and debugging • Participate in architecture discussions, RFCs, and cross-team technical initiatives • Mentor engineers and promote best practices in API design, content systems architecture, and distributed system development

🎯 Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent functional experience • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical lead or senior engineering role • Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives to successful completion • Experience using or solid knowledge with AI-powered development tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, code generation and debugging assistants) to improve engineering productivity • Strong proficiency in Java (17+) and Spring Boot — building RESTful APIs, data access layers, and microservices • Production experience with React and Next.js (or equivalent modern frontend frameworks) using TypeScript • Experience with Python for services, scripting, or data pipelines • Solid knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) — schema design, query optimization, and migration tooling (e.g., Liquibase, Flyway) • Experience with message brokers and event-driven architecture — Apache Kafka, GCP Pub/Sub, or similar • Experience with search infrastructure — Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, or equivalent • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS) and containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes) • Strong CI/CD experience — building and maintaining automated build, test, and deployment pipelines • Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to translate technical complexity for diverse audiences • Demonstrated ability to balance technical excellence with realistic delivery.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical • Dental • Vision • 401(k) plan • Life insurance coverage • Disability benefits • Tuition assistance program • Paid time off • Bonus eligible