About Careertakes

👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, Research Services.

Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.

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About the Role

Our confidential client is hiring a backend Software Engineer to build and maintain systems that collect, process, search, and deliver short-form video data. This is a full-time role on a small, mostly-remote engineering team where engineers work directly with product owners, customers, and founding leadership.

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What You’ll Work On

• Backend services to collect and normalize short-form video, account, and engagement data
• Public API design and implementation — endpoints, auth, rate limits, error handling, and docs
• Search and filtering across videos, creators, accounts, keywords, and metrics
• Account tracking, outlier detection, exports, and alerting workflows
• Background jobs, queues, retries, and monitoring for long-running data processes
• Internal tools for inspecting API activity, usage, and data-quality issues
• Integrations so customers can embed data into their products and workflows
• Troubleshooting performance: query latency, data freshness, failed jobs, and high-volume requests

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What You’ll Do Day-to-Day

• Design, build, test, and maintain backend services and APIs
• Own features from planning through production release and monitoring
• Collaborate with product and customer-facing teams to refine requirements
• Investigate and resolve customer- and production-reported bugs
• Write tests for new functionality and recurring failure modes
• Participate in code reviews and document important technical decisions
• Improve observability so issues are detected before customers report them
• Speak with selected API customers to surface technical requirements and tradeoffs

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Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years professional backend or full-stack engineering experience
• Experience building production web applications or developer-facing APIs
• Strong experience in at least one backend language (Python, TypeScript/Node, Go, or Java)
• Experience designing REST APIs: auth, pagination, rate limits, webhooks
• Familiarity with relational databases and writing efficient queries
• Experience with background jobs, queues, scheduled tasks, or event-driven systems
• Comfortable with automated testing, Git, code review, and CI/CD practices
• Experience deploying and operating services on AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Clear written communication and the ability to work with minimal management layers

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Relevant / Helpful Experience

• Web scraping, browser automation, or working with unofficial third-party data sources
• Search systems, large datasets, or analytics pipelines
• Integrating with social media APIs and handling frequently changing external platforms
• Building ETL/data pipelines and asynchronous processing systems
• SaaS products with usage-based billing or developer-focused APIs
• Startup experience where engineers regularly speak to customers

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How Success Is Measured (First 90 Days)

• Ship changes to an existing backend service and deploy safely to production
• Understand end-to-end data flow from collection through API delivery
• Resolve production bugs independently with minimal direction
• Improve at least one recurring reliability or performance issue
• Take ownership of a defined product or API workflow

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Compensation & Location

This position is full-time and supports remote work within the United States. Compensation details will be provided during the hiring process or where required by state/local pay-transparency laws.

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Why Apply

This role is a strong fit for engineers who enjoy building APIs and data pipelines, diagnosing production issues at scale, and working closely with customers to deliver measurable value. If you want to join a small, collaborative team tackling hard problems around social-video data and search, this could be a great match.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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