We’re looking for a seasoned engineering leader to drive the development and enhancement of core application services that power Pluto TV’s centralized platform management tools, middleware, and backend systems! In this role, you’ll lead a high-performing technical team to build scalable, secure, and reliable services, ranging from database access and event management to authentication and integration with external systems. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on experience with Golang, JavaScript, Node.js, Express, React, and cloud platforms like AWS or Google Cloud, along with a strong background of delivering complex solutions and mentoring engineering talent!

Responsibilities Include:

• Build out and lead a great team of software engineers (mostly remote, 6 to 10 team members)
• Keep your teams happy, motivated and successful
• Develop and implement innovative processes, strategies and best practices to maximize team morale and productivity
• Host regular 1:1’s with team members for coaching and mentoring
• Conduct code reviews and ensure developers adhere to team’s best practices and processes
• Develop technical requirements for new projects or improve existing projects with teams
• Encourage teams to make technical decisions, and make final decisions when necessary
• Help, identify and improve engineering and team metrics
• Monitor and improve team engineering metrics
• Ensure priority tasks such as production issues are investigated and resolved in a timely manner
• Guide realistic (not optimistic) LOE discussions during planning, accounting for likely set-backs and external constraints
  
  

Basic Qualifications:

• BS degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field required
• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience building highly scalable, performant and responsive web applications
• 3+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience (on teams with 7 or more developers)
• 5+ years of experience developing application services using Golang, Node, and front-end frameworks/libraries like React.
• 3+ years of experience developing applications deployed on AWS or GCP
  
  

Additional Qualifications:

• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills
• Familiarity with authorization and authentication principles is desired
• Familiarity with 3rd party authorization and authentication apis and software is desired
• VOD Streaming experience is desired
• Experience with as much of our technology stack as possible: Golang, Node.js, Javascript, React, Express.js, Typescript, Redis, MongoDB, Git, AWS
• Very technical hands-on software
  
  

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Pluto TV, a Paramount Global company, is the leading free streaming television service in America,  delivering 250+ live and original channels and thousands of on-demand movies in partnership with major TV networks,  movie studios,  publishers,  and digital media companies. Pluto TV is available on all mobile,  web and connected TV streaming devices and millions of viewers tune in each month to watch premium news,  TV shows,  movies,  sports,  lifestyle,  and trending digital series. Headquartered in West Hollywood,  Pluto TV has offices in New York,  Silicon Valley,  Chicago and Berlin.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 

 

Hiring Salary Range: $139,200.00 - 200,000.00. 

 

The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York City, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.  The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable,  as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement. This position is bonus eligible.  

 

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