Sr Software Backend Engineer

About the role

Angel is seeking an entrepreneurial minded Software Engineer with an emphasis in solving complex problems and pioneering new, innovative solutions.

Essential Functions

• A critical performer amongst your fellow engineers to design and oversee the implementation of innovative and impactful solutions while maintaining Angel's strategy of being highly cohesive, flexible and opportunistic.
• The owner of the vision for a solution that spans or impacts multiple teams.
• Highly resourceful and bold, able to visualize challenges and rally a team around a solution.
• A high-energy achiever insisting on candor with positive intent.
• Expert with our technology stack. You can coordinate a solution across teams and domains, advocating your vision for a path forward.
• The manager of the risk your solution may pose to Angel's products, ensuring the right people are informed and coordinated with.
• The Owner of problems, concerns, or roadblocks as they arise around your solution, and quickly help others overcome them.
• Passionate about our product strategy in ways that allow you to contribute to the vision and provide opportunities for Angel to succeed.
• A go-to resource across teams to get something important done, and to ensure that it fits well within our existing products, ecosystem, and architectural plans.
• A radiator of information critical to the success of your projects and stakeholders.
• The right-hand of product managers and architects to get critical features or improvements done quickly and effectively.
• The owner of solution performance and improvements by anticipating constraints today that will impact future success.
• The standard for quality in code, scalable design, and CI/CD delivery.
• Responsible for your systems in production and their impact on other services.
• A major contributor of technical documentation utilized in the Product and Engineering departments.

Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years experience writing high-performance reusable code.
• Expert level knowledge of multiple programming languages and technologies, with adept knowledge of others pertinent to your work.
• Familiarity with AI programming tools (claude, cursor, etc) and principles of orchestrated agent-driven development.
• Up to date with the latest and evolving cloud technologies (microservices, eventing, etc.)
• Expertise with DevOps principles (CI/CD, Flow optimization, collaboration, ownership, ect.)
• Passion for rapid iteration and clean design that leads to a codebase that is impactful, performant, and maintainable.
• To be able to quickly pick up new skills and learn how to use new frameworks or technologies.
• To be proactive and detail-oriented, yet comfortable working in a dynamic environment with a high variety of users and evolving requirements.
• Experience crafting high performance reusable code and microservices for massive scale distributed systems with multiple technologies (Python, Java, Javascript, Elixir/ Erlang , Go, Kotlin etc).
• Experienced in the infrastructure needed to make compelling backend applications such as API development (GraphQL, REST).
• Experienced with API frameworks (Django, NodeJS, Go, Spring Boot, Phoenix), as well as database interaction and modeling (Relational, No SQL, Graph, and Big Data).
• Experienced with queuing (Kafka, Kinesis, etc).
• Passionate about careful design & architectural planning that leads to a codebase that is future-proof and maintainable.
• Enjoy the challenge and opportunity to lead and improve the development experience at Angel Studios by enhancing development tools, test coverage, and code structure.
• You are proactive and detail-oriented, yet comfortable working in a dynamic environment with tight deadlines and evolving requirements.
• Self-starter with the ability to seek out opportunities, create an action plan and see it through to fruition.
• Strong collaborator with excellent presentation, communication, and problem solving skills.
• An exceptional listener with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.
• Detail-oriented perspective and able to pick up on overlooked details.
• Organization and time management. Must be able to maintain confidentiality of information.
• Must be able to manage multiple assignments, set priorities, and adapt to changing conditions.
• Resourceful and able to problem-solve and manage tasks with ambiguity. Can take feedback to tasks and assignments positively and create better solutions.
• A quick study, able to pick up new skills and learn how to use new programs.
• Must participate in setting and achieving regularly scheduled and outlined objectives. Ability to take individual ownership, execute with high energy, share context, insist on candor with positive intent.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• 4+ years of experience as a Sr. Software Engineer or equivalent

Preferred qualifications

• Familiarity with Angel, the Angel Guild, and our body of work (films, series, and other projects).

Pay

$120,000-$165,000