Senior Software Engineer

🕒 June 30

🏄 California, New York – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $160k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Whip Media

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

🤝 B2B

💰 $50M Series D - Whip Media on 2020-01

SaaS • Media • B2B

Whip Media is the leading SaaS company powering the global media and entertainment industry. Its AI-native platform, Helix, provides data and actionable intelligence to power the content supply chain, improve operational efficiency, and enable profitable decision-making at scale. Whip Media focuses on revenue and contract management, content licensing, title and avails management, partner payments, content performance tracking, and order & offer management for media and entertainment companies.

📋 Description

• Build and operate core Helix services and shared platform capabilities (tenant foundations, auth patterns, metadata and records patterns, eventing patterns, shared libraries) • Design and implement APIs using gRPC protobuf and REST • Work in PostgreSQL every day, including schema design, migrations, JSONB modeling, and performance tuning • Deploy and run services on AWS EKS, including ALB ingress, health checks, scaling, and production debugging • Publish and consume events via Kafka and design event contracts that hold up over time • Improve developer velocity by contributing to Helm templates, CI CD workflows, service scaffolding, and configuration standards (including secrets and environment management) • Raise the bar on testing, code quality, observability, and operational hygiene • Mentor other engineers and lead technical conversations that unblock teams

🎯 Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience and production ownership • Experience building microservices and running them in production • Go experience, or deep systems language experience and you can ramp to Go quickly • API design experience, gRPC and protobuf experience is a strong plus • Strong PostgreSQL fundamentals and real experience with migrations and performance tuning • Kubernetes experience in production, EKS is a plus • A practical quality mindset, you write tests and you care about operability • Nice to have: Multi tenant SaaS experience and an opinion on tenant isolation and authorization boundaries • Kafka experience (consumer groups, idempotency, event schemas) • Envoy or gRPC Web experience • Helm, GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS networking and ingress patterns • Observability experience (structured logs, metrics, tracing, OpenTelemetry)

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive health plan • Wellbeing bundles • Competitive Maternity/paternity leave • Remote office stipend • Flexible PTO • Referral bonuses • Access to FSA plans • 401k retirement plan • Monthly mobile reimbursement