Senior Backend Architect, Discovery & Personalization

Paramount Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 157,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Generous PTO

Streaming service subscriptions

Job summary

Paramount Streaming, a division within Paramount Global, is seeking a Lead Engineer to anchor a team of backend engineers powering content discovery across Pluto TV and Paramount+. You will set architectural direction, review designs, and mentor engineers while delivering high‑throughput services for millions of devices.

This senior IC role emphasizes technical depth over people management, with collaboration across Product, Data Science & Personalization, and adjacent platform domains.

Qualifications

• Eight plus years of software engineering experience on backend/distributed systems.
• Experience owning design and delivery of high-concurrency APIs or platforms.
• Strong familiarity with discovery domains: search, recommendations, content metadata, or ranking systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture and design for backend services and APIs across discovery features.
• Lead on-call practices, incident response, and postmortems for services.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and design guidance.
• Partner with PM & Data Science teams to translate goals into technical designs.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

API design

Cloud (GCP)

CI/CD

Performance tuning

Mentoring

Tools

Elasticsearch

Solr

Job description

Paramount Streaming, a division within Paramount Global, is seeking a Lead Engineer to anchor a team of backend engineers powering content discovery across Pluto TV and Paramount+. You will set architectural direction, review designs, and mentor engineers while delivering high‑throughput services for millions of devices.

This senior IC role emphasizes technical depth over people management, with collaboration across Product, Data Science & Personalization, and adjacent platform domains.