Versant MediaRemote
Senior Software Engineer - AI/Full Stack
United States of America
Full Time
3 weeks ago
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
Backend developmentPlatform developmentGoJavaNode.jsDistributed systemsAPI designData pipelinesCloud-native platformsAWSAzureGCPContainerizationDockerKubernetesDatabase systemsSQLNoSQLCachingData modelingCI/CD pipelinesAutomated testingMonitoringEvent-driven architecturesStream processingSecurity systemsCompliance systemstackle ambiguityCI/CDMentoring
About this role
VERSANT Media is a leading force in news, sports and entertainment, and they are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build the services, systems, and infrastructure that power new platforms and products. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and scalable backend systems while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring production readiness.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs
- Take ownership of complex features end-to-end, from design through deployment and monitoring
- Architect key system components that balance performance, reliability, and maintainability
- Collaborate with cross-functional peers to define data models, service contracts, and integration patterns
- Address ambiguous, cross-team challenges, introducing innovative solutions to systemic problems
- Implement CI/CD, observability, and automation practices to ensure production readiness
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, raising code quality and technical standards
- Balance technical decisions with user impact and long-term business goals
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional backend or platform development experience
- Strong proficiency in one or more modern backend languages (e.g., Go, Java, Node.js)
- Experience designing and scaling distributed systems, APIs, and data pipelines
- Familiarity with cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong understanding of database systems (SQL and NoSQL), caching, and data modeling
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring/observability practices
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment where projects evolve rapidly
- Experience with event-driven architectures, stream processing, or security/compliance-sensitive systems
- Experience building MCP services for LLMs
- Experience with other large entertainment focused platforms, centered around being consumer-facing at a large scale
- Familiarity and hands-on exposure with MCP Servers and highly accessible and available API platforms
- Knowledge of microservices and event-driven architectures at enterprise scale
- Cloud-native, global scaling experience (AWS and their various tool offerings)
- Understanding of the mindset of 'Fail Fast, Learn Fast' and continuous improvement