About Us

Our client is transforming how creator content, video, and commerce converge. Originally centered on sports wagering, they’re now expanding beyond gaming into a full-fledged video-commerce and creator-marketplace platform. Think clips, live interactive streams, shoppable moments, creator ecosystems - all backed by data, real-time workflows and commerce triggers.

The Opportunity

We are hiring a Principal Backend Engineer who will shape the architecture and delivery of our core content-to-commerce platform. You will join an engineering team that has members that worked at Apple, Postmates and Udemy. You will make strategic technical decisions, lead cross-team initiatives, elevate engineering standards, and help define how creators monetize via video and how the audience connects with content and transactions. You’ll work at the intersection of media, real-time systems, and commerce.

What You’ll Do

• Define and own the technical strategy for backend systems powering content ingestion, creator tooling, media pipelines, personalization/feeds, and commerce triggers.
• Architect and build high-scale, low-latency services in Go and Python that drive the creator-video-commerce stack: ingestion → processing → delivery → transaction.
• Lead large, complex projects: evolving micro-services architecture, scaling to millions of events/requests per minute, ensuring reliability, cost-efficiency and observability.
• Collaborate with product, design, data/ML, and creator-ops to anticipate the next wave of content-commerce innovation (for example: shoppable video, live drops, creator-marketplaces).
• Own production operations for critical systems: service reliability, incident response, capacity planning, performance optimization.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of software engineering experience (or equivalent), with deep backend expertise. Hands-on mastery of both Go and Python in production environments.
• Proven track record architecting large distributed systems, micro-services, event-driven pipelines, real-time data flows and commerce or media-driven workflows.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code, and operational excellence.
• Deep familiarity with data stores (SQL + NoSQL/kv), message queues/streaming (Kafka, Pub/Sub, etc), API design (REST/gRPC), and performance/scale trade-offs.
• Self Starter: Our timezones won’t perfectly align so it is imperative that you are able to work without direct communication with our engineers.
• Strong strategic mindset: able to make decisions under ambiguity, drive technical vision, and lead across teams.
• Excellent communicator: able to articulate technical strategy to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred (Nice-to-Have)

• Background in personalization, recommendation systems, feed ranking, or analytics/ML infrastructure.
• Experience building creator platforms, video commerce, live streaming ecosystems, or social/interactive media products.
• Experience building platforms in B2B Software as a Service

Note: You can apply for this position from any European country, as it is fully remote.