Lead Software Engineer – Content Systems
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Lead Software Engineer focusing on content management systems for Paramount Streaming. Responsible for API development, personalization engine integration, and team collaboration.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable APIs that power content management, metadata services, and interaction experiences
- Lead the evolution of Content Systems APIs, including content ingestion, metadata management, search, and editorial workflows
- Define and apply API standards and best practices, including versioning, contract design, and backward compatibility
- Evolve existing content metadata models and services to support personalization, discoverability, and real-time engagement use cases
- Integrate Content Systems with personalization engines, enabling real-time decisioning based on content metadata and user behavior
- Collaborate with content, editorial, and product teams to ensure APIs support content lifecycle workflows (ingestion, curation, publishing, and updates)
- Design APIs for event-driven content pipelines, integrating with Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar messaging platforms
- Enable seamless data flow between content systems, personalization services, ad systems, and client applications
- Optimize APIs for performance, scalability, and reliability under high traffic conditions and global usage
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate API and service development, testing, and debugging
- Participate in architecture discussions, RFCs, and cross-team technical initiatives
- Mentor engineers and promote best practices in API design, content systems architecture, and distributed system development
Requirements:
- BS in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent functional experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 2+ years in a technical lead or senior engineering role
- Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives to successful completion
- Experience using or solid knowledge with AI-powered development tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, code generation and debugging assistants) to improve engineering productivity
- Strong proficiency in Java (17+) and Spring Boot — building RESTful APIs, data access layers, and microservices
- Production experience with React and Next.js (or equivalent modern frontend frameworks) using TypeScript
- Experience with Python for services, scripting, or data pipelines
- Solid knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) — schema design, query optimization, and migration tooling (e.g., Liquibase, Flyway)
- Experience with message brokers and event-driven architecture — Apache Kafka, GCP Pub/Sub, or similar
- Experience with search infrastructure — Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, or equivalent
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS) and containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong CI/CD experience — building and maintaining automated build, test, and deployment pipelines
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to translate technical complexity for diverse audiences
- Demonstrated ability to balance technical excellence with realistic delivery.
Benefits:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k) plan
- Life insurance coverage
- Disability benefits
- Tuition assistance program
- Paid time off
- Bonus eligible
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