Lead Software Engineer – Content Systems

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🏄 California, New York – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $164.6k - $247k / year

⏰ Full Time

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✍️ Content Marketing Manager

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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

• Serve as the established technical owner of one or more core CMS systems (API layer, integration services, search pipeline, or admin UI) • Drive architectural decisions across the CMS platform, including API design, data modeling, event-driven integrations, and search infrastructure • Lead the design and implementation of scalable, robust services across a polyglot stack: Java/Spring Boot APIs, Next.js/React frontends, Python services, Kafka/PubSub messaging, and Solr search pipelines • Define and promote engineering best practices • Explain what team members do well and where they need supervision • Identify, prioritize, and strategically reduce technical debt across the domain • Write and review RFCs, architecture decision records, and technical design documents for significant changes • Set the team's bar for AI-assisted development — including review standards for agent-generated PRs, prompt and context patterns. • Stay involved in coding. Write important production code. • Lead large projects and initiatives from conception through delivery — break down ambiguous, large-scale problems into actionable work • Assess technical risk, make pragmatic trade-off decisions, and communicate them clearly • Own end-to-end delivery: from design through production observability and reliability • Set a high bar for quality through automated testing, peer review, CI/CD pipelines, and observability • Mentor and coach engineers through code reviews, design sessions, pairing, and architectural guidance.

🎯 Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent useful 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 • Solid 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) • Solid CI/CD experience — building and maintaining automated build, test, and deployment pipelines • Exemplary written and oral communication skills, with the ability to translate technical complexity for diverse audiences • Demonstrated ability to balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical • Dental • Vision • 401(k) plan • Life insurance coverage • Disability benefits • Tuition assistance program • PTO