Software Engineer

Vevo is the world's leading music video network, connecting an ever-growing global audience to high quality music video content for more than a decade. Founded by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment in 2009, Vevo offers fans worldwide a vast array of premium content to choose from, showcasing official music videos alongside a constantly developing lineup of live performances and innovative original programming. From top superstars to rising new talents, Vevo brings incomparable cross-promotional support to artists across the musical spectrum, at every stage of their careers.

Vevo has consistently evolved over the past decade to lead within today's ever-changing media landscape, embracing partnerships with a number of leading distribution platforms to deliver extraordinary content within ad-supported environments. With 22 billion views across television, desktop and mobile devices each month, Vevo brings music videos to the world – when, where, and how fans want them.

Vevo is available on YouTube, Samsung, Samsung TV Plus, Roku, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Amazon Prime Video, VIZIO WatchFree+, Foxtel, Hulu + Live TV, Sling Freestream, and Rakuten TV.

About Role:

As a Software Engineer at Vevo, you will join a small, autonomous team responsible for building features to house and manage music video data. You will collaborate with engineers, internal and external stakeholders and product managers to build services and applications. You will lead with empathy, balancing user needs and technical constraints, to deliver valuable solutions for a multi-billion dollar industry.

This is a full-time remote position. 

As a member of the team you will:

• Collaborate with fellow engineers and stakeholders to architect, design, and build highly scalable platforms that ingest, process, and augment music video data received from content providers and publish it to downstream consumers
• Work closely with product managers, UX, software, and infrastructure engineers to design and implement new features which will focus on decentralized microservices architecture
• Build features to enable content providers to deliver music videos across platforms

This describes you:

• You believe in values like effectiveness over efficiency and quality over quantity
• You like to solve hard, interesting problems
• You desire to continuously improve your team, your product and yourself
• You have pragmatic communication and problem-solving skills
• You are opinionated, yet humble

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software development experience
• BS/MS in Computer Science, or a related field, or relevant experience
• Experienced in multiple languages, such as Java, Kotlin and SQL.  MyBatis is a plus.
• Experience implementing scalable distributed architectures using Apache Kafka & Kafka Streams
• Designing and building REST APIs
• Experience with modern persistence layers, including NoSQL and RDBs
• Experience with cloud hosting, Kubernetes clusters with Docker containers in AWS
• Experience with CI/CD tools, such as: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
• Ability to debug, triage, evaluate, and provide support for users within these systems
• Extra credit for experience with modern web technologies and frameworks, such as: Node.js, React, GraphQL
• Behavior-driven integration testing with frameworks like Kotest or JUnit. Programmatically faking inter-service communication with tools like WireMock.

Interested? Great! You might like to know:

• We're a fun, energetic, and tight-knit team.  
• We really enjoy music and technology.
• We have competitive compensation and benefits packages.  
• We offer a 401k match
• We have premier access to music content and new releases of original media content.

$125,000 - $145,000 a year

This role is a full-time remote position; however, to ensure seamless collaboration with our core team and stakeholders, candidates must reside and work within the United States.   This role may require up to 15% travel for teams onsites and collaborative workshops.

Vevo considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected status under local, state, or federal law. 

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.