MediaLab is a media & technology company focused on acquiring and growing properties and global brands. The organization is a unique combination of private equity, holding company and operating entity. We continue to expand and are proud of the prominent market position of our brands.
Come join an exceptionally talented team of engineers, designers, product and business builders. HQ is located in sunny Santa Monica, California with growing teams in New York, and across cities in the US and Latin America.
Your Role at MediaLab
MediaLab Engineering supports a growing portfolio of applications across diverse business verticals, meticulously acquired to integrate with its internal Ad platform processing billions of impressions monthly.
Amino, our social networking brand, is a platform designed for people to connect over shared interests. It allows users to join or create communities which are focused on specific topics, such as gaming, anime, music, movies, art, or general hobbies. These communities function like niche social networks, where members can chat, share content, participate in forums, and engage in activities related to the community's theme.
For this particular product, we’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer with experience in Python, Golang and React. If you've designed complex scalable systems, built powerful and intuitive user interfaces, or worked with great teams on hard problems in consumer products, this is the place for you.
What You'll Do
- Work with product, design and other engineering teams to implement new features and transform existing products
- Build stable, extendable, testable code
- Participate in design and code reviews
- Deploy to Production and Staging environments
- Be available on the On-Call Schedule in case of outages
- Mentor one or two more junior engineers within the organization
- Modernize Infrastructure by migrating away from the current python monolith to microservices in Kubernetes
What We're Searching For
- Minimum of 5+ years experience within increasingly complex engineering organizations
- Consumer facing application or web experience strongly preferred
- B.S. in Computer Science or similar technical field of study as well as strong grasp of dynamic programming
- Extensive full-stack or backend engineering experience with Python and React, Golang is a plus
- Experience designing and building real-world web applications and javascript libraries with cross browser support
- Familiar with agile methodologies and proper testing efforts
- Passion for continuous learning of new technologies and best implementations
At MediaLab, we rely on a range of backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. We value diversity, and we’re proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity workplace.
Top Skills
What We Do
@MediaLab we build, acquire & grows internet brands.
Driven by our mission to build community among our social media and mobile platforms, we invest in shared services and programmatic monetization through our social media exchange to connect purposeful brands with our vast audience of 95M+ Monthly Users (& growing).
Assembly Exchange is our owned and operated social media exchange providing programmatic access to diverse and elusive social audiences via our portfolio of owned & operated social networks including Kik, WorldStarHipHop, Amino Apps, Genius, Imgur and more.
MediaLab HQ is based in Santa Monica, California, with a growing presence in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil & broader Latin America.
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There are so many startups out there. What makes MediaLab so special?
1. We're small but tenacious. Motivated & hungry. Excited by the growth we've seen each year since our founding.
2. You see the day in and day out impact of YOUR work.
3. No sitting in a corner working on a tiny fraction of something impactful. Come here and actually OWN stuff.
