About Backstage

Backstage is the largest talent marketplace for the entertainment industry, media, brand marketers, and other content creators, matching their creative projects with the best actors, voiceover artists, production crew, and other industry professionals. Employers around the world use our best-in-class technology to staff over 50,000 creative projects a year in film, television, commercials, branded content, theater, experiential marketing, and more.

Backstage is the only platform that services the entire content creation ecosystem, providing a one-stop shop for productions to source, hire, and pay right-fit talent for any project, anywhere. We recognize creatives as the beating heart of our brand, and we have a core mission to break down barriers for entry to careers in the entertainment industry by connecting talent to the best jobs, networking opportunities, and educational resources.

Crucial to that mission is our ongoing commitment to harnessing the latest technology to design innovative digital tools that promote more diverse, equitable, and inclusive hiring practices and facilitate more authentic, successful storytelling. We’re a team of customer-centric, data-driven, forward-thinking, strategic problem-solvers with a passion for helping our customers and members make amazing things together.

About TCS

TCS' mission is to empower creative talent and streamline the content creation process for projects in film, television, commercials/branded content, social media, theater, music video, video games, and more. We provide solutions that manage the entire project lifecycle, including talent discovery and staffing, production, post production, and distribution. Our brands include Backstage, Coverfly, FilmFreeway, Final Draft, ShareGrid, and Voice123.

TCS is the creative services division of Cast & Crew, a family of individually innovative companies modernizing the ways in which content is created.

Position Overview

Backstage is seeking a remote Senior Backend Engineer to join our passionate web team. Our backend web team consists of eight engineers, and includes mid and senior level engineers, tech leads, and an engineering manager. This team is a part of Backstage’s larger product and engineering department, which numbers approximately thirty high-performance engineers, designers, product managers, analysts, and quality assurance resources. We value curiosity, trust, and impact, and we foster a culture of constant learning and improvement where teammates work together to accomplish user-focused initiatives. Our process is a modified Kanban process with the goal of delivering incremental value to the customer. Products are workshopped and then broken into milestones, with estimates driven by engineers, not managers. We uphold autonomy and trust our engineers to pick the best tools suited for their tasks, while working collaboratively towards mutual goals. In line with our goal to continue delivering value to the customer, we release multiple times a day, every day, and adhere to a robust QA and code review process before any code is released. As a backend engineer, you will be working with cutting edge technology and new product development in a stable and rapidly growing company. You will be partnering with our product and tech leads to design and architect new features. This is an individual contributor role, and you will be empowered to make your own decisions about implementations and given autonomy to complete your work at your own pace.

The Senior Backend Engineer will report to our Backend Engineering Manager.

What you'll do:

Partner with product, marketing, business intelligence, and design teams to develop new product features and enhancements
Design engineering plans to meet the requirements of the product or goal
Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python code
Contribute to and influence the overall backend architecture decisions
Work closely with product, marketing, and customer service to translate customer feedback into successful features and tools
Collaborate with backend engineers outside your feature team to maintain shared code and infrastructure
Coordinate with frontend engineers to provide a cohesive experience
Use both technical and relational skills to lead large scale projects to completion
Collaborate, mentor, and learn with a high-performing team of engineers

What we're looking for from you:

Proven experience building a major product or feature from scratch at scale for a large public facing web application
Advanced proficiency with Python and Django
Solid database skills in a relational database (i.e., PostgresSQL, MySQL, etc.)
Experience with Elasticsearch a plus
Experience in developing RESTful APIs.
Strong unit test and debugging skills.
Experience incrementally rolling out new features, components or refactors without blocking the rest of the team, and iterating upon and maintaining live products
Strong project management skills; able to organize, adhere to process, and execute projects across disciplines and by deadline
Excellent communication skills; you can articulate clearly, thoroughly, and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences
Comfortability with the entire development life cycle (inception to release) in an Agile environment
Collaborative, engaged, and adaptable; you are comfortable joining a team with a large, mature codebase with established engineering processes
Flexible and proactive, you’re able to shift gears quickly in a fast-paced environment
Familiarity with Javascript/React a plus