Staff Engineer, Rotten Tomatoes

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