Software Engineer - Digital Asset Management

Description

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on backend or distributed systems.
• Programming skills in Java, with hands-on experience building services using Spring Boot.
• Experience building or operating Digital Asset Management systems, content management systems, or media processing/transcoding pipelines.
• Experience working on metadata and search layer: schema modeling, controlled vocabularies, faceted query APIs, and metadata extraction from embedded sources .
• Experience building rendition and derivative generation services — thumbnails, previews, web-optimized variants — orchestrated asynchronously at scale
• Experience designing and building REST APIs for high-throughput, production-grade systems
• Experience with NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB and/or DynamoDB, including schema/data modeling for scale.
• Experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming/messaging systems.
• Experience with search technologies such as Solr or Elasticsearch.
• Experience deploying and operating services in containerized, cloud environments (AWS, EKS/Kubernetes).

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Experience with metadata and taxonomy design for large-scale content or asset repositories.
• Hands-on experience or interest in AI/agentic tooling — such as AI-driven metadata tagging, agentic workflows, LLM-powered automation, or building MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers — applied to real engineering use cases.
• Experience with CDN configuration and storage optimization for content delivery at scale.
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative software development workflows.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading projects or technical design discussions.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.