Solutions Engineer

Summary

Join Huge's global Tech team as a remote Solutions Engineer in the United Kingdom. This role requires a wide range of technical knowledge across multiple systems and solution types, with deep expertise in at least one. You will be responsible for designing and implementing microservices architecture, building platforms for web and mobile, and leading architectural conversations. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, API integrations, and e-commerce solutions. You will mentor the development team and ensure engineering best practices are followed. This position offers the opportunity to work remotely and contribute to a dynamic and inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing and implementing microservices architecture at scale, with particular expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP and Vercel)
• Demonstrated success building platforms to support web and mobile platforms simultaneously
• Track record of successfully orchestrating complex third-party API integrations while maintaining system coherence
• Experience implementing robust authentication systems(Auth0) and content access control for premium/paid content
• History of architecting and scaling e-commerce solutions with particular focus on security and payment flows
• Possesses a wide range of technical knowledge across multiple systems and solution types with a deep understanding and capabilities across one or more systems
• Experience with CMS, ecommerce, CDP, CRM, and mobile app development process
• A track record of architecting large scale, global platforms
• Experience in ensuring high availability through hardening, load testing, and monitoring
• Familiarity with OWASP security best practices
• Experience with RESTful architecture and GraphQL
• Experience in API Gateway Technologies
• Familiarity with OpenAPI (Swagger) or other API definition languages
• Experience with real time content delivery
• Strong cloud architecture experience (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Strong foundational knowledge of microservice design pattern
• A hands-on engineer, supporting development work while providing senior oversight to the engineering team

Responsibilities

• Assemble an architecture of multiple platform capabilities to enable a world-class user experience
• Define and clearly present the architectural design of a system to the project team and stakeholders alike
• Own and lead architectural conversations
• Design a system that can meet agreed SLAs
• Be able to break down the solution to show how the system works and meets requirements
• Identify architectural roadblocks and provide alternate approaches
• Quickly identify critical capabilities or gaps and communicate them to the team
• Create limited scope proof of concepts (POCs) to validate and pattern minimal amounts of scope
• Lead DevOps processes and implement them within a project
• Adapt and apply abstract solutions to individual situations
• Learn new technologies quickly and be able to impart that information to the team, and apply it to a project
• Communicate with other disciplines and teammates to resolve issues
• Focus on individual systems and problems in any given situation
• Mentor the development team and provide thought leadership
• Deliver and ensure engineering best practices
• Make sure code is tested properly by self and others
• Lead work sessions to come up with creative solutions
• Proactively refactor/iterate over the lifecycle of a project in order to achieve simplicity
• Apply security as code across the code base, as well as DevOps tools and practices, and evaluate/recommend new code and DevOps Security tools
• Work with QA leads and help define the testing strategy

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of video streaming technologies and content delivery networks, especially experience integrating with platforms like Vimeo OTT
• Background in payment processing and subscription management systems, with knowledge of integrations for PPV
• Experience building real-time, interactive features similar to the application’s TikTok-style content scrolling and community engagement components

Benefits

Remote work