Software Engineer, Shutterstock
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Royalty-free media library
Job no longer available
Royalty-free media library
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help creative professionals from all backgrounds and businesses of all sizes produce their best work with incredible content and innovative tools, all on one platform.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional backend development experience
- Strong proficiency in Java, with experience using Spring Boot and Spring Framework
- Experience designing and consuming REST APIs
- Familiarity with Kafka or other message streaming platforms
- Solid understanding of relational databases and writing optimized SQL
- Comfortable working with GraphQL
- Exposure to Python or willingness to learn
- A collaborative mindset with strong communication skills
- A passion for clean code, scalable systems, and continuous learning
Desirable
- Practical experience working with data warehouses and DBT for data transformation and modeling
- Hands-on experience working with the AWS ecosystem (especially Aurora/Dynamo DB)
- Experience working with Node.js and/or Typescript
- Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with Databricks
- Background in building systems for search, metadata enrichment, or digital asset management
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience to help build and scale the backend services that power our content discovery, licensing, and delivery platforms across all of our incredible content libraries
- You’ll join a team that’s passionate about clean architecture, performance, and solving complex challenges at scale. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and love building robust APIs, data-driven systems, and data modeling we’d love to hear from you
- Design, implement, and maintain backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and the broader Spring ecosystem
- Build and evolve RESTful APIs that power content metadata, search, recommendation, and licensing workflows
- Work with Kafka to build event-driven and real-time processing systems
- Use SQL and work with relational databases to support structured content metadata
- Partner with data and analytics teams to model data in data warehouses, supporting reporting and analytics use cases
- Build and maintain DBT models to transform raw data into clean, usable datasets
- Leverage the AWS ecosystem for service deployment, data storage, and pipeline orchestration
- Contribute to technical discussions, system design, and code reviews
Our take
Shutterstock is a global leader in licensed images, videos, and music, serving creative professionals like designers, filmmakers, and marketers. Content creators upload their work, which is then used by businesses and media organizations in various projects. It's a two-sided marketplace that fuels creativity worldwide.
Shutterstock offers a variety of plans for individuals, teams, and enterprise customers as well as creative editing and collaboration capabilities. Their aim is to build sophisticated tools to help the world experience images and videos in a more beautiful way - they believe that the harmonious union of design and technology can influence global communication.
Shutterstock's brand portfolio includes Bigstock, Offset, PremiumBeat, Rex Features, and Shutterstock Custom, adding hundreds of thousands of images weekly. More recently it introduced generative AI and fairly licenses artists' work for their AI-generated content, unlike competitors. This ethical approach bodes well for the company, positioning it well for future growth and innovation.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flexibility: Shutterstock operates in a Hybrid model that is centered around flexibility and enabling collaboration, innovation, and accountability no matter where we are
- Connection: Whether virtual or in person, we make sure there are plenty of opportunities and events to connect and have fun
- Recognition: We never miss an opportunity to celebrate our achievements and recognize great work through our global recognition program
- Empowerment: We offer generous and competitive compensation packages, PTO, wellness initiatives, on-and-off working hours, tuition reimbursement, and an employee referral bonus
- Growth: Your development is top of mind. Our SkillUP Program enables you to take ownership of your personal development through virtual learning offerings, and we are constantly adding to the platform to meet your changing needs
- Belonging: Our goal is to build a workforce that is, at all levels, representative of the diverse global community we serve and where all employees can come to work as their authentic selves
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Jon Oringer
(Executive Chairman)Previously Board Member at Partnership for New York City for 6 years and Founder, CEO at SurfSecret Software for 5 years.
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