VERSANT is a leading force in news, sports and entertainment, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead complex technical initiatives. In this role, you will mentor engineers and shape the long-term direction of their brands while focusing on enriching the fan experience through innovative software solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Lead development efforts for a diverse portfolio of product offerings spanning Fandango, Fandango at Home, and Rotten Tomatoes, delivering experiences that reach millions of users
- Architect platforms for ingesting, normalizing, and distributing studio catalogs, ratings, and metadata at scale
- Expand features that let fans rate, review, and share their opinions, strengthening the community aspect of entertainment
- Collaborate with product and design to deliver personalized discovery, recommendations, and curated content
- Ensure studio data and metadata flows seamlessly between ticketing, streaming, and review platforms
- Provide technical leadership and guide best practices for handling large-scale, content-rich systems
- Build API- and AI-driven SaaS products designed to scale—serving both internal teams and external clients through powerful distribution channels
- Partner with Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Legal, and Privacy teams to ensure products meet the highest standards of trust, safety, and compliance
Requirements:
- 8+ years of engineering experience in data-rich or content-heavy platforms
- Strong background in API-first development, integrations, and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Proficiency in Python, C#, Node.js, Typescript or equivalents with a focus on scalable and maintainable backend development
- Expertise in scalable distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure
- Expertise in metadata management, APIs, and content distribution
- Experience with community or social platforms, especially review/rating systems
- Strong collaborator with a history of building systems that serve multiple teams and products
- Passion for building tools that enrich audience engagement
- Excellent collaboration skills, especially in cross-functional and cross-border contexts
- Track record of building diverse, inclusive teams and fostering a strong engineering culture
- Experience partnering with cybersecurity, data governance, legal and compliance teams to ensure secure, and compliant product delivery
- Change management skills – going from monolith to micro-services, on-premise to cloud, manual to automated, VMs to containers, etc
- 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