Senior Full-Stack Engineer — AI-Driven Platform (Go/Java)

ADP, Inc.; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote office stipend

Flexible PTO

Competitive Maternity/paternity leave

Access to FSA plans

Monthly mobile reimbursement

Job summary

Whip Media is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer in Santa Monica to design, build, and maintain mission-critical web-based software for major studios and broadcasters. You will work across Go-based services on Helix and migrations of Java/Spring code, plus front-end work with modern frameworks to deliver fast, data-dense interfaces.

The role involves ownership of features end-to-end, collaboration with a cross-functional team, and applying AI tooling to development workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience with software design and development in Java.
• Experience with Spring and core Spring components, especially Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Data, and Spring Data REST.
• Front-end experience with a modern component framework (Vue, React, or similar), including state management and async data loading.
• Experience with data modeling in SQL, ideally PostgreSQL, and query tuning at scale.
• Experience with AWS APIs and services (S3, Lambda, SNS, SQS).
• Experience with a scripting language, ideally Python.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging (Kafka, Kinesis, SNS/SQS).
• Hands-on experience developing with AI tooling - coding agents or assistants, and/or building features against LLM APIs - with a clear point of view on where it helps and where it doesn't.
• Experience with web services (REST).
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and write new APIs and data processing code in Java or Python.
• Build the front-end features that go with them - data-dense interfaces where the challenge is making large, complex result sets fast and understandable.
• Create new data models to handle our ever-increasing data volume.
• Devise algorithms to handle data synchronization across distributed systems.
• Design and implement ETL processes that integrate with a variety of customer and third-party data sources.
• Own features end to end: requirements, design, implementation, tests, deployment, and support.
• Use AI tooling as a core part of your development workflow, and help establish what good practice looks like as agents write a meaningful share of the code.
• Write technical requirements and design documents.
• Work closely with a cross-functional team on the development of our new platforms and internal tools.
• Mentor other engineers through design and delivery.

Skills

Java

Spring

Frontend (React/Vue)

PostgreSQL

Python

AWS

Kafka/Kinesis

REST

AI tooling

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/Engineering

Tools

Spring Boot

Spring Security

Spring Data

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kafka/Kinesis

React

Vue

Job description

Whip Media is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer in Santa Monica to design, build, and maintain mission-critical web-based software for major studios and broadcasters. You will work across Go-based services on Helix and migrations of Java/Spring code, plus front-end work with modern frameworks to deliver fast, data-dense interfaces.

The role involves ownership of features end-to-end, collaboration with a cross-functional team, and applying AI tooling to development workflows.