Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Backend

Summary

Join Evertz.io's Engineering Team and build next-generation systems for content management and distribution in the Media and Entertainment industry. We work with high-quality video in real-time and non-real-time scenarios using a serverless microservice architecture on AWS. You will participate in design discussions, take features from scoping to launch, collaborate with various teams, develop high-quality software, and engage in continuous learning and mentoring. This role offers full flexibility in terms of location and working hours. We provide a competitive salary and benefits package, including a performance-based bonus, stock options, pension plan, health and medical plan, life insurance, long-term disability coverage, paid time off, and more.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience with Python
• 6+ years of experience with design, planning & implementation of APIs (REST, protobuf)
• At least 4 years of exposure to AWS Cloud computing
• A good eye for well-structured, modular and maintainable code
• A passion for writing unit tests for your code
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate clearly
• Keen on participating in peer-reviewing code for technical accuracy, ensuring that technical standards are met

Responsibilities

• Participating in design discussions with Head of Stream Automation, Product Owners and Solution Architects for adding new or improving existing features
• Taking a feature from scoping requirement to actual launch in our cloud platform
• Design & document requirements/features/API
• Close collaboration with UI & QA team
• Collaborate with SRE team to improve system observability, incident response, and troubleshooting
• Develop high quality, easily understandable, fully unit tested software satisfying Definition of Done including safe deployment tests
• Understand and use Shift left strategy/push down Test Pyramid when testing the developed feature
• Engage with and involve QA team where an integration/end-to-end test is required
• Continuous learning to improve yourself and mentoring Junior Engineers
• Keen on participating in peer review of code for technical accuracy, ensuring technical standards are met

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with microservices architectures and patterns
• Experience creating Serverless applications using event-driven architecture (AWS API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge, etc)
• Experience with observability frameworks (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb) and understanding of the importance of observability in distributed systems
• Experience working with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB)
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline)
• Knowledge of major architecture styles and design patterns (message oriented, event based, etc.)
• Experience building SaaS products in a multi-tenant environment
• Familiar with integration and contract testing
• Knowledge of networking
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code in the cloud (CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Terraform)
• Interest in working with machine learning to create smart solutions for the broadcast industry

Benefits

• Competitive salary with annual performance-based bonus and stock option schemes
• Pension plan
• Employer funded health and medical plan
• Life insurance plan
• Long term disability coverage
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance program
• Discount platform
• Full Flexibility - work remotely
• Asynchronous working hours