Senior Software Engineer - Long Term Project - Los Angeles or Seattle
Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: In Office based in Los Angeles or Seattle
Duration: 6+ months project
Compensation: $90.00-$98.25/Hour
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.
Description/Comment:
As a Lead Software Engineer (P4), Full Stack, you will play a key technical leadership role on the video and image asset processing team, which is responsible for the ingestion, transcoding orchestration, metadata storage, and Asset Reviewing UI used to review every video and display advertisement.
This role combines hands‐on full‐stack development with technical leadership, including owning medium‐to‐large features, influencing architecture within the team, mentoring other engineers, and collaborating closely with Product, Design, QA, and partner engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable tools that enable the management, processing, and availability of all video and display advertisement media used in all Advertising Campaigns.
Responsibilities: - Design, develop, test, and maintain full‐stack software solutions, including backend services and user‐facing web applications supporting ad asset workflows.
- Own medium‐to‐large scope features and technical initiatives from design through production, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Contribute to and influence service‐level and system‐level design decisions within the team''s domain.
- Write high‐quality, production‐grade code and participate actively in code reviews, design reviews, and technical discussions.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, UX Designers, and QA to translate requirements into well‐designed technical solutions.
- Support operational excellence by improving observability, performance, resiliency, and on‐call readiness for owned services.
- Mentor and support other engineers through technical guidance, feedback, and knowledge sharing.
- Participate in incident response and root‐cause analysis for production issues within owned systems.
Functional Knowledge - Strong understanding of modern full‐stack architectures, including client‐server communication, RESTful APIs, and distributed backend systems.
- Working knowledge of cloud‐native development concepts such as stateless services, horizontal scaling, and service observability.
- Familiarity with ad‐tech or media‐processing workflows (asset ingestion, metadata management, review pipelines) is a plus but not required.
- Applies established engineering best practices while helping evolve team standards where appropriate.
- Understands downstream impacts of design decisions across interconnected systems.
Skills and Competencies - Proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python) and modern frontend technologies (e.g., React, TypeScript).
- Experience building and consuming APIs (REST and/or GraphQL).
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Hands‐on experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and cloud services.
- Ability to break down ambiguous or complex problems into actionable technical work.
Basic Qualification: - Proven ability to deliver results independently while coordinating effectively within a team. Communication and Collaboration
- Communicates clearly and effectively with both technical and non‐technical partners.
- Participates constructively in technical debates and design discussions.
- Proactively surfaces risks, tradeoffs, and blockers.
- Provides timely, respectful feedback to peers and acts on feedback received.
- Works effectively across engineering, product, design, and QA functions.
Problem Solving and Decision Making - Solves medium‐to‐high complexity technical problems with limited guidance.
- Exercises sound engineering judgment in selecting designs, tools, and implementation approaches.
- Makes decisions that impact their team''s deliverables and related systems.
- Identifies opportunities for incremental improvement in quality, performance, or developer experience.
Basic Qualifications - Proficiency with Java, Spring, and ORMs
- Experience with ReactJS or similar frontend frameworks, with the ability to quickly pick up new technologies.
- Relational databases, such as MySQL or Postgres
- Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving skills.
- Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications: - SpringBoot and related Spring projects.
- Cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Modern DevOps tools such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Data Streaming Mechanisms such as Apache Kafka, Kinesis, and/or SNS/SQS.
- Domain knowledge in the Ad Tech industry.
Experience with: AI tools and agents (Cursor, Amazon Q Developer)
Required Education: BA/BS Degree Comp Sci/IS or related fieldOur benefits package includes: (EXCLUDE on perm placements)
- Comprehensive medical benefits
- Competitive pay
- 401(k) retirement plan
- …and much more!
About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients'' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.
INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
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