Senior Software Engineer

Title:
Senior Software Engineer

Location:

Los Angeles or Seattle or Remote
Duration: 6+ months project
Compensation: $90.00-$98.25/Hour
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

As a Lead Software Engineer (P4), Full Stack, you will play a key technical leadership role on the video and image asset processing team, which is responsible for the ingestion, transcoding orchestration, metadata storage, and Asset Reviewing UI used to review every video and display advertisement. This role combines hands‑on full‑stack development with technical leadership, including owning medium‑to‑large features, influencing architecture within the team, mentoring other engineers, and collaborating closely with Product, Design, QA, and partner engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable tools that enable the management, processing, and availability of all video and display advertisement media used in all Advertising Campaigns.

• Design, develop, test, and maintain full‑stack software solutions, including backend services and user‑facing web applications supporting ad asset workflows.
• Own medium‑to‑large scope features and technical initiatives from design through production, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Contribute to and influence service‑level and system‑level design decisions within the team's domain.
• Write high‑quality, production‑grade code and participate actively in code reviews, design reviews, and technical discussions.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, UX Designers, and QA to translate requirements into well‑designed technical solutions.
• Support operational excellence by improving observability, performance, resiliency, and on‑call readiness for owned services.
• Mentor and support other engineers through technical guidance, feedback, and knowledge sharing.
• Participate in incident response and root‑cause analysis for production issues within owned systems.

• Strong understanding of modern full‑stack architectures, including client‑server communication, RESTful APIs, and distributed backend systems.
• Working knowledge of cloud‑native development concepts such as stateless services, horizontal scaling, and service observability.
• Familiarity with ad‑tech or media‑processing workflows (asset ingestion, metadata management, review pipelines) is a plus but not required.
• Applies established engineering best practices while helping evolve team standards where appropriate.
• Understands downstream impacts of design decisions across interconnected systems.

• Proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python) and modern frontend technologies (e.g., React, Type Script).
• Experience building and consuming APIs (REST and/or GraphQL).
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational and/or No
  
  SQL databases.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and cloud services.
• Ability to break down ambiguous or complex problems into actionable technical work.

• Proven ability to deliver results independently while coordinating effectively within a team. Communication and Collaboration
• Communicates clearly and effectively with both technical and non‑technical partners.
• Participates constructively in technical debates and design discussions.
• Proactively surfaces risks, tradeoffs, and blockers.
• Provides timely, respectful feedback to peers and acts on feedback received.
• Works effectively across engineering, product, design, and QA functions.

• Solves medium‑to‑high complexity technical problems with limited guidance.
• Exercises sound…