Senior Software Engineer, Real-Time Content Platform

Aquent; Bell Gardens (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Aquent partners with a leading global technology company to deliver real-time, reliable live content experiences. You’ll own production issues from detection to resolution and help ensure millions of users worldwide connect with creators without interruption.

In this role you’ll triage on-call incidents, debug frontend (JavaScript/TypeScript, React) and backend services, ship robust fixes, and improve observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE or equivalent.
• Strong JS/TS and React front-end skills.
• Solid backend services and API development experience.
• Proven ability to own production issues end-to-end.
• Experience with on-call duties in high-traffic apps.

Responsibilities

• Participate in on-call rotation for live content creation surfaces, triaging and investigating production issues.
• Debug and resolve complex issues across web frontend and backend services in the live content creation stack.
• Deliver bug fixes, reliability improvements, and small to mid-sized features.
• Improve on-call health by reducing alert noise, refining runbooks, and enhancing monitoring and dashboards.
• Develop and maintain tests to ensure stability of live content creation flows.
• Document findings and solutions for a team knowledge base.

Skills

5+ years engineering

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Backend development

On-call production support

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Node.js

REST APIs

GraphQL

Job description

Aquent partners with a leading global technology company to deliver real-time, reliable live content experiences. You’ll own production issues from detection to resolution and help ensure millions of users worldwide connect with creators without interruption.

In this role you’ll triage on-call incidents, debug frontend (JavaScript/TypeScript, React) and backend services, ship robust fixes, and improve observability.