Hi. I am Guillermo, the hiring manager for this position and backend developer lead of StreamingGuide. Our mission is to propel justwatch.com to become the premier streaming guide worldwide.
We predominantly utilize Golang and Kubernetes, interfacing with GRPC APIs from teams such as Content (housing our extensive database) and Martech (for ad display). Additionally, we work with databases like Scylla and Elasticsearch, ensuring seamless operation even under high loads exceeding 5k requests per second.
About the Role
Currently, we're tackling challenges like integrating video ads, fortifying against scraping, enhancing response times, and optimizing the click-through rate for our recommender engine. As part of our team, you'll contribute by applying your experience in Go, infrastructure management, and challenge resolution. You will also be responsible for creating a healthy team environment and helping grow colleges with less experience.
The hiring process
Following an initial chat with our Talent team, you'll engage with either myself or Martin, our VP of Engineering, to discuss cultural alignment and assess mutual fit. If we proceed, a coding challenge awaits, a collaborative 1.5-hour session where we'll tackle fictional functionalities together. You will share your screen and code on your machine. If needed, we can also provide you with a coding environment in Linux. The last one will be with our CTO Dominik.
What We're Looking For
We are looking for experts that are autonomous, with plenty of experience, and feel comfortable with moving bytes all over the place while providing transparency and good communication. You should be able to code in Go, deploy to Kubernetes, and debug production challenges in the Google Cloud.
What we provide
Apart from the nice office (feel free to visit us), we will provide you with anything that is required to fulfill our needs. As seniors we expect you to tell us what you need, and we will try to match that.
How to apply
To apply, simply click the button below and provide your CV, relevant information, GitHub username (or equivalent), and a brief introduction outlining your motivations, why you're interested in JustWatch, and how you envision contributing to our objectives.
We prioritize genuine interest and discourage mass applications.
- A company culture that really works
- Audience as a Service
- Or visit our blog here: https://www.justwatch.com/blog
Looking forward to potentially welcoming you aboard,
Guillermo
Media is important to us and we are always happy to hear from people who enjoy film! If you feel like you are missing some of the hard skills – don’t worry, we are hiring for the attitude, values, and personality.
If we caught your attention and you're eager to delve into our perspectives and thought processes, we recommend immersing yourself in our blog post, which elaborates on these subjects:
- A company culture that really works
- Audience as a Service
- Or visit our blog here: https://www.justwatch.com/blog
How to apply
Just hit the apply button at the bottom of this page, and leave us your CV, info, and a short intro that gives us an idea of what motivates you, why you want to work at JustWatch, and how you think you will help us achieve our goals.
Please only apply if you are interested, copy&paste mass applications will receive a copy&paste rejection email. The same goes for ChatGPT-powered applications. If you have any questions, please reach out to our talent team via LinkedIn or apply to this role directly through our jobs page.
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What We Do
We are JustWatch. The only media company built for modern-day entertainment.
JustWatch Media helps entertainment brands around the world get to grips with new challenges and opportunities. From blockbuster movies, award winning shows, major sporting events and console games, we buy media for our clients across the major digital platforms.
Our media buying capabilities are powered by JustWatch The Streaming Guide. Live and localized in over 130 markets, it is the biggest streaming guide in the world, billions of data points from over 200,000 movies & shows and tens of millions of users, which means we understand audiences and content better.
We have offices in Berlin, Munich, Paris, Rome, London and New York and we’d love to hear from you.
Our mission is to connect entertainment fans with their favorite content worldwide.
