Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Whip Media; Santa Monica (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Maternity/paternity leave

Remote office stipend

Flexible PTO

Referral bonuses

FSA plans

401k retirement plan

Monthly mobile reimbursement

Job summary

Whip Media is hiring a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain mission-critical web-based software for major studios and networks. Work spans Go on Helix, Java/Spring in production, and front-end features for data-dense interfaces.

You will contribute to AI-powered features and data-driven product development in a fast-paced environment. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, design ETL processes, mentor engineers, and help set best practices for

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with software design and development in Java.
• Experience with Spring and core Spring components (Boot, Security, Data, Data REST).
• Front-end experience with a modern component framework (Vue, React, or similar).
• Experience with SQL data modeling, PostgreSQL, and scale tuning.
• Experience with AWS APIs/services (S3, Lambda, SNS, SQS).
• Experience with Python scripting.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging (Kafka, Kinesis, SNS/SQS).
• Hands-on experience with AI tooling and LLM APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design and write new APIs and data processing code in Java or Python.
• Build front-end features for data-dense interfaces.
• Create new data models to handle increasing data volume.
• Devise algorithms for data synchronization across distributed systems.
• Design and implement ETL processes integrating diverse data sources.
• Own features end-to-end from requirements to deployment and support.
• Use AI tooling as a core part of development workflow.
• Write technical requirements and design documents.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on new platforms and tools.
• Mentor other engineers.

Skills

Java

Spring

Frontend framework

PostgreSQL

AWS

Python

Kafka/Kinesis

AI tooling

REST APIs

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Temporal

Terraform

CI/CD

Golang

Job description

Whip Media is transforming how the world's largest media and entertainment companies manage, distribute, and monetize content across the global streaming supply chain. Our flagship product, Helix, is an AI-native system designed to radically optimize content operations — enabling data-driven decisions that maximize revenue, streamline distribution, and scale profitable strategies. Trusted by top studios, networks, and streaming platforms, we sit at the intersection of media and technology, redefining the business of content.

Helix is our next-generation platform, built with long-term scale, efficiency, and operational excellence in mind, with Go as its primary codebase. Alongside it, we continue to run and evolve the established Java and Spring services that serve customers today, built on PostgreSQL, Python, and Amazon Web Services throughout. Our platform helps leading media and entertainment companies operate more efficiently, with greater visibility and control over digital distribution.

The Role

As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, you'll work on a small development team designing, building, and maintaining mission-critical web-based software for major film studios, TV broadcasters, and cable operators in a high-energy environment. You'll work across both worlds: building new services in Go on Helix, and supporting and migrating what's already in production in Java and Spring. You'll also build the front-end features that go with your APIs — data-dense interfaces where the challenge is making large, complex result sets fast and understandable.

We're also actively building AI into how we work and what we ship — agent-assisted development and LLM-powered features on top of our platform data. We're looking for someone who already works this way and can help set the bar for the rest of the team.

What You’ll Do

• 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

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a 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

Nice To Have

• Production experience with Golang
• Experience with workflow orchestration, particularly Temporal — durable long-running workflows, activities, retries, idempotency, versioning, and testing. Airflow, Step Functions, or Cadence experience is relevant here as well
• Experience building AI-powered product features: retrieval/RAG, agents and tool use, evals, and managing cost and latency in production
• Familiarity with MCP servers or other agent‑tooling integrations
• Experience with non-relational data technologies
• Experience with data warehousing, ideally Amazon Redshift
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipeline ownership
• Domain experience in media, entertainment, content licensing, or rights and royalty systems

What We Have To Offer

Your wellbeing is our priority. We want our Whipsters to feel set up for success at work and at home! We offer a competitive health plan so you can choose the right plan for you and your loved ones! We offer wellbeing bundles to ensure your mental and physical health resources are at your fingertips. Whip's People Team is committed to your happiness and growth in every aspect of your life! Here are some other perks:

• Competitive Maternity/paternity leave
• Remote office stipend
• Flexible PTO
• Referral bonuses
• Access to FSA plans
• 401k retirement plan
• Monthly mobile reimbursement

The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $160,000 - $185,000. Additionally, you will be eligible to participate in our robust medical, dental, vision, retirement, and other benefit plans. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education/certifications or training.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Whip Media, we are all Whipsters! We strive to create an inclusive, diverse environment where you are encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We value unique perspectives, ideas, authenticity, and welcome, as well as support, points of view which drive your own growth alongside that of the company. Whip Media has made a commitment to continue to grow our diverse workplace and partners with organizations that provide us with a range of candidates from diverse backgrounds. We foster a people-centric environment that promotes and evaluates belonging and inclusion and actively strives to bridge any gaps that exist between employee groups.

Please note: We are not accepting submissions from third-party recruiters or staffing agencies for this position.