Senior Software Development Engineer, UTA
$160-190k
Talent & entertainment agency
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Talent & entertainment agency
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$160-190k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To shape talent, build careers, and tell stories.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years software engineering experience with a focus on backend/full-stack development
- Deep experience with Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL in production environments
- Hands-on expertise with AWS services: EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM
- Familiarity with event-driven systems (Kafka, SQS, or similar), API integrations, and microservice patterns
- Strong understanding of data modeling, transaction workflows, and secure service architecture
- Comfortable working across systems where compliance, auditability, and financial accuracy are critical
- Experience with financial systems (payments, trust accounting, GL integration, revenue recognition)
- Prior exposure to platforms with complex domain logic — deal tracking, contingent compensation, or booking systems
- Familiarity with Salesforce, NetSuite, Concur, or related business platforms
- Experience with serverless architecture and FaaS patterns
- Understanding of multi-party payments, invoicing workflows, or tax handling (e.g., 1099s, VAT)
What the job involves
- UTA seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to build scalable, high-performance services that power the agency’s next-generation financial platform
- This platform includes applications for deal execution, invoicing, payment distribution, and financial reporting
- In this role, you will play a critical part in architecting backend systems, integrating with external platforms, and delivering features that support complex revenue and transaction workflows across the business
- Design and implement services that support revenue workflows, payment logic, and invoicing pipelines
- Build robust APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL
- Own integration with internal systems (e.g., Salesforce, NetSuite) and external providers (e.g., banks, payment processors)
- Develop full stack features using modern front-end frameworks integrated with secure backend services
- Implement structured financial logic such as contingent payments, commission calculations, and milestone-based billing
- Build and deploy infrastructure in AWS using services like Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, SQS, and EventBridge
- Implement CI/CD workflows and monitor across environments
- Ensure systems are fault-tolerant, scalable, and auditable, with proper instrumentation and alerting
- Translate complex business rules into deterministic backend logic: commissions, milestones, payee splits, and contingent payments
- Implement robust data flows between Client Processing, Deal Management, and Authoritative Data domains
- Ensure data integrity across subsystems handling trust accounting, revenue posting, and contract lifecycle events
- Work closely with product managers, architects, and finance stakeholders to deliver end-to-end features
- Translate financial and contractual rules into deterministic, reusable service logic
- Drive quality, automation, and performance in a domain where correctness and compliance are critical
Our take
Founded in 1991, UTA represents some of the world’s most acclaimed and recognised figures - from actors and athletes to writers and digital influencers. These include Lizzo, The Coen Brothers, Bad Bunny and Timothee Chalamet.
The entertainment landscape is in a permanent state of flux, but the boom of digital and social media has brought rise to new kinds of talent. To remain on the cultural pulse, UTA has expanded its business into gaming, digital media and influencers, as younger consumers spend more time playing games or watching social content over traditional media.
With the acquisitions of Fletcher & Company and Curtis Brown, UTA took on the estates of esteemed literary figures like John le Carré and Ian Fleming. This reflects a larger competition between agencies to acquire intellectual property to develop into content. In doing so, UTA hopes to find competitive edge over other dominant agencies, WME and CAA.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Beverly Hills, CA
Leadership
Jeremy Zimmer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Has served as CEO for UTA since 1991.
Jim Berkus
(Co-Founder & Chair)Served as a partner at Leading Artists Agency, which merged with Bauer-Benedek Agency to form UTA.
Peter Benedek
(Co-Founder & Owner)Also served as a partner at Bauer-Benedek Agency.
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