The Role
Build and ship AI-powered full-stack products across backend services, Node.js and TypeScript APIs, and React streaming interfaces. Develop SSE-based responses, conversational UIs, structured AI outputs, persistence, authentication, and resilient asynchronous workflows. Write comprehensive tests, instrument systems, debug production issues, and collaborate with product, design, and platform teams through staged launches. The role requires strong judgment around latency, cost, failure handling, accessibility, and performance.
Summary Generated by Built In
Samba connects the advertising industry. Today, a trillion dollars of media flows through platforms that don’t talk to each other, and each one measures its own results. We built the independent alternative: consented first-party data and AI that give the world’s biggest advertisers, publishers, and platforms one clear view across all of it.
The next era of advertising will run on AI agents, and those agents will need data they can trust. We’re building that foundation, and the agents that act on it. Join us and help build what the industry runs on.
You join the Agentic Product Engineering team, building a new AI-powered product with a real-time, conversational interface that researches, reasons, and produces real deliverables. The role spans the AI backend, the Node and TypeScript service layer, and the React streaming UI, where latency, cost, and graceful failure decide whether users trust it.
- Build Across the System: Work across the AI backend, service layer, and UI, owning how features stream, model state, and fail, and making good calls on well-scoped work.
- Build the AI Backend: Extend backend services, wiring model interactions and structured outputs, handling streaming, and managing state and persistence while weighing latency, cost, and failure modes.
- Own the Service Layer: Extend the Node backend-for-frontend, building endpoints, streaming responses over server-sent events (SSE), enforcing auth, and keeping the client-to-server contract type-safe.
- Ship the UI: Build a streaming, chat-style React interface, turning structured data into interactive charts, tables, and document previews, and cover front-end work as needed.
- Get Streaming Right: Handle long-running asynchronous work, including partial streaming state, generating transitions, reconnection, large payloads, and graceful behavior when a request fails mid-flight.
- Raise Quality: Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, instrument client and server, and use logs, traces, and error tracking to debug issues spanning UI and services.
- Launch and Collaborate: Ship into live cohorts on a staged progression, fixing what surfaces before the next group, and partner with product, design, and platform engineers through code review.
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience, plus typically 4+ years of full stack or web application development.
- A full-stack engineer with real range who has owned significant features end to end, weighs trade-offs, explains the why, and disagrees well.
- Strong in JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node, with clean type-safe code and REST and SSE fluency, plus solid PostgreSQL, SQL, Git, CI/CD, and cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure) fundamentals.
- Hands-on React experience and a solid grasp of the web platform, with judgment on streaming state, reconnection, mid-flight failure, rendering performance, and accessibility, owning correctness of AI-assisted code.
- A strong plus: AI and LLM application experience, including streaming chat UIs, tool-calling, and agentic patterns, and modern SSR React frameworks such as Next.js, Remix, or TanStack Start.
- A plus: type-safe API contracts (tRPC, Hono RPC, GraphQL) across a monorepo, pnpm and Vite tooling, and auth flows (Auth0, OAuth, JWTs).
- A plus: observability tooling (Sentry, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana), scripting in Python, Go, or shell, and adtech, media technology, or data-heavy product experience.
Compensation
$182,000 - $246,000 a year
Samba expects to offer On-Target Earnings (OTE) of $182,000 - $246,000 per year for roles to be performed in California; actual base salary offered will depend on various factors, including but not limited to, location, experience, and performance. Base salary is just one component of Samba's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include bonuses, short-term incentives, and long-term incentives. In addition, Samba provides health insurance, wellness offerings, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO), and other employee benefits.
Samba is an equal opportunity employer.
Your personal information
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Use of AI in hiring
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Typically 4+ years of full-stack or web application development experience
- Significant end-to-end feature ownership and strong full-stack engineering judgment
- Strong JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js experience
- Experience with type-safe code, REST APIs, and Server-Sent Events
- Experience with PostgreSQL and SQL
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, and at least one major cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Hands-on React experience and strong web platform knowledge
- Ability to handle streaming state, reconnection, mid-flight failures, rendering performance, accessibility, and AI-assisted code correctness
- Experience writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
- AI and LLM application experience, including streaming chat UIs, tool-calling, and agentic patterns
- Experience with Next.js, Remix, or TanStack Start
- Experience with tRPC, Hono RPC, GraphQL, pnpm, or Vite
- Experience with Auth0, OAuth, or JWT authentication flows
- Experience with Sentry, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Grafana
- Scripting experience in Python, Go, or shell
- Adtech, media technology, or data-heavy product experience
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The Company
What We Do
Samba is a media-intelligence company that combines consented first-party viewership data from streaming, linear TV, the web, and video games with AI to map content, audiences, and outcomes. Its platform gives advertisers, publishers, and media platforms insight into audience behavior and supports campaign planning, targeting, measurement, and optimization across channels. Samba’s data and analytics help clients understand audiences and make marketing decisions.
