Senior Backend Engineer

Early Media is creating and distributing groundbreaking original series. We craft narratives with viral potential while preserving the heart of indie production, telling meaningful stories audiences actually care about. Every creative decision is sharpened by a proprietary testing and marketing engine that collapses the distance between filmmaker and audience into the tightest iteration loop in the industry.

The platform ecosystem behind Twist is being built from scratch - Twist, our streaming app; the Analytics Engine; and a Prediction Engine developed in partnership with our Data Science Lead. We're looking for a senior backend engineer to own the architecture underneath all three.

The core backend architecture that spans Twist, Analytics Engine, Prediction Engine, and our Ecommerce platform.

The pipes behind the Analytics Engine and Prediction Engine - starting from ingestion, sentiment analysis, dashboards, to campaign attribution.

Logging, monitoring, and alerting that catches problems before they become incidents.

The technical judgment of the engineers around you, through review and direct mentorship.

Media, streaming, or gig-economy background.

CDN and video streaming protocol experience (HLS, DASH).

Payment gateway integration work.

Real-time/streaming data processing.

Familiarity with compliance basics , such as KYC, anti-fraud, data privacy.

Protobuf/gRPC contract design across polyglot services.

Experience with JVM performance tuning and GC diagnostics.