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iSpot competes for the best talent. Our compensation packages consist of salary and equity in one of Seattle’s hottest start-ups, as well as other standard benefits. Most importantly, we provide a really interesting working experience, and the chance to contribute to the success of something great.
What You'll Be Part Of
At iSpot.tv, we deal with BIG data, operating in a high-scale AWS environment with thousands of servers processing massive streams of media metadata. As a Senior SDE, you are a foundational pillar of our engineering team. You don't just write code; you own entire domains, drive scalable solutions, and act as a "go-to" expert.
We are currently looking for an AI-native engineer—someone who views AI not as a novelty, but as a core component of their development lifecycle—to help lead our mission-critical data evolution, and contributing to the vision of Creative Audience and Outcomes Pillar.
Your Impact
1. Technical Excellence & Domain Ownership
2. AI-Driven Productivity & Innovation
3. Operational Excellence & Data Strategy
4. Leadership & Collaboration
What You Bring
Preferred Qualifications
Target cash compensation range: $136,000-148,382 USD Annually
We are committed to providing competitive, market-informed compensation. The cash compensation above includes base salary, variable commission for employees in eligible roles, and annual bonus targets for eligible roles. In addition to cash compensation, all full time iSpotters are eligible to participate in iSpot’s equity plan to receive stock options. Non-exempt roles will also be eligible for (pre-approved) overtime pay. Individual compensation packages are influenced by different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications and other job-related reasons.
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Hybrid & Flexible Workplace Policy
iSpot supports a hybrid and flexible workplace. Depending on location and work responsibilities, employees may be designated as full-time or part-time office-based or a fully remote employee. A hybrid work schedule indicates that you work in the office some days and work from home other days. The best hybrid workplaces allow for flexibility while also encouraging consistency.
Those local or living in surrounding areas to one of our offices (Bellevue, WA or New York, NY) will work a hybrid schedule, coming into their local office 1-3 days a week. While those in a role, not office-based and located further away from our offices, will work a fully remote schedule. If you have questions regarding exact details of our hybrid & flexible workplace policy, please let your recruiter know and they will discuss with you further.
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Skills Required
- Must be currently authorized to work in the United States; employer will not sponsor visas
- Significant experience developing shareable features across multiple engineering projects
- Experience leading small-to-mid-sized technical initiatives
- Proven ability to make high-level architectural decisions and redesign legacy services for reliability and operability
- Hands-on Platform Engineering experience focusing on internal developer experience and self-service capabilities
- Expert knowledge of AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, IAM)
- Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot
- Experience with MySQL
- Experience with Snowflake for large-scale analytics workloads
- Experience with a message broker such as RabbitMQ
- Experience designing and developing Apache Airflow DAGs
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and secure deployment strategies
- Experience using AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development
- Strong communication, mentorship, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Familiarity with CircleCI
- Track record of identifying incident trends and introducing organization-wide solutions
What We Do
iSpot.tv helps advertisers measure the brand and business impact of TV and streaming advertising, from concept to airing to conversion. Fast, accurate and actionable measurement and attribution solutions enable advertisers to assess creative effectiveness, enhance media plans and attribute advertising results for cross-platform campaigns, all while benchmarking against competitors and historical norms. Unlike legacy and ad hoc solutions, iSpot is purpose-built to measure the performance of every ad on television with digital-like precision and granularity in real time. With always-on performance insights unified across linear and streaming TV, advertisers can take quick and confident action to consistently drive business results. More at: https://www.ispot.tv
