Senior Backend API Software Engineer, Spotter
$100-500k
+ Stock options
3-4 days a week in office (Culver City, CA)
Finance solution for content creators
Open for applications
Finance solution for content creators
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$100-500k
+ Stock options
3-4 days a week in office (Culver City, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To catapult creative potential with lucrative deals that make you unstoppable.
Role
Who you are
- You are a Senior-level Backend Software Engineer with experience building performant API services that serve data at large scale
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar technical or engineering discipline
- 7+ years of software engineering experience specializing in backend services
- Proficient with Python (Django) to serve large scale datasets
- Experience running software and services in the cloud
- Proficiency with SQL on RDBMS and data warehouse solutions like Redshift
- Proficiency with maintaining fault tolerant systems in production
- Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure
Desirable
- Experience with YouTube APIs and YouTube/video performance data
- Experience with data acquisition from external APIs at large scale / in parallel processing
- Experience with Data-Lake technologies
- Experience with vector databases
- Experience with AWS Glue metastore
- Experience with Data-Mesh approaches
- Experience with data cataloging, data lineage and data governance tools and approaches
What the job involves
- We are in search of a talented Senior Backend API Software Engineer specializing in scalable data serving via Restful APIs, and working with big data sets from various databases
- This position will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and optimizing data infrastructure
- You will be a key player empowering us to make data-driven SaaS applications and internal system integrations that will fuel our innovation and growth
- Design and develop RESTful APIs for internal data consumers using performant API frameworks such as Python Django, NodeJS or similar
- Ensure optimal latency, authentication, and scalability of Spotter Data API. Follow API server best practices and standards
- Implement and maintain backend transactional databases and document stores, ensuring data integrity and consistency
- Work closely with the data engineering team to understand existing datasets that need to be queried via API endpoints
- Work with various database systems (Postgres, Elastic Search, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, vector databases, data warehouses) and data lake technologies, applying optimization techniques for scalable queries
- Explore new scalable solutions to meet our growing needs
- Work with product engineering team to learn about the upcoming needs
- Benchmark existing solutions periodically to ensure low latency, make recommendations when needed
Our take
Spotter offers digital-creatives the opportunity to transform content creation as a hobby to a full-time job by providing them with the capital to do so. The company provides cash upfront to creators in exchange for ownership of any future ad revenue their videos generate.
Not dissimilar to venture capital investments, Spotter has applied this model to the digital content world, an increasingly lucrative industry. It is well placed to continue rapid ascension given its impressive clientele, some of YouTube’s most popular creators - such as Mr.Beast and Dude Perfect - whose cumulative content has amassed a combined 50 billion minutes in watch time.
2022 investment from Japan’s SoftBank and further venture capital positions Spotter to invest $1 billion with YouTube creators through 2023, cementing it as the leading partner of content creation.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2024
$7.4m
LATE VC
Sep 2022
$9.4m
LATE VC
Total funding: $247.4m
Company benefits
- Medical insurance covered up to 100%
- Dental & vision insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Stock options
- Autonomy and upward mobility
Company values
- People over profits: We act with our partners’ best interests in mind
- Algorithms over guessing games: We leverage tech that provides insight and foresight
- Transparency over mystery: We believe openness is the key to building trust
- Radical change over gradual growth: We go big and take ownership of any risk
Company HQ
Playa Vista, Los Angeles, CA
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Leadership
Aaron DeBevoise
(CEO)Previously co-founded Cflix, North Entertainment, Machinima, StyleHaul, and served as CEO for Network of One. Spent nearly 5 years at J.P Morgan, initially as an Analyst before becoming an Associate within the Entertainment Industries Group.
Nic Paul
(COO)Previously founded N.B Paul and Revee, serving here as CEO until it was acquired by Outbrain, and acting as Head of Sales and Innovation. Spent 4 years at Penske Media Corporation as Senior Vice President.
David Carroll
(Chief of R&D)Previously founded SantaCruzGuide.com. Experience as a Software Engineer for ICTV, Interwoven, and eBay, and later held positions at Sony, Sizzle Digital Media and DIRECTV, before serving as CTO for Network of One.
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