Backend Software Engineer

This is a Full Time Job

#WeAreParamount on a mission to unleash the power of content… you in?
We've got the brands, we've got the stars, we've got the power to achieve our mission to entertain the planet – now all we're missing is… YOU! Becoming a part of Paramount means joining a team of passionate people who not only recognize the power of content but also enjoy a touch of fun and uniqueness. Together, we co-create moments that matter – both for our audiences and our employees – and aim to leave a positive mark on culture.

In This Role You'll:

The live services platform distributes live events for Paramount and live video streams with reliability first, turning chaos into order through clear ownership, hardened workflows, and disciplined operations. It absorbs pressure, minimizes latency, and recovers fast, so moments that cannot be replayed arrive on time and endure without spectacle.

We are seeking a Backend Engineer to join our CMS Backend team. This role is for someone who treats reliability as a feature–an engineer who is motivated to track down errors, avoid anti-patterns, and help ensure our systems expose problems instead of hiding them. You will contribute to building, maintaining, and scaling high-traffic backend services, while practicing sound system engineering and communicating effectively with teammates, stakeholders, and product managers. You are a selfâ€'motivated engineer who values reliability, maintainable code, and strong team practices. You take pride in reducing technical debt, uncovering hidden issues, and promoting transparency, observability, and accountability in modern backend systems.

Responsibilities Include:

• Build and evolve Java/Spring Boot backend services for a live-event metadata platform backed by relational databases.
• Deliver features with a reliability-first mindset, supported by metrics and production dashboards.
• Write clear, debuggable code and tools that surface failures early and reveal system behavior.
• Apply observability best practices with meaningful metrics, structured logs, and traces in microservices.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, product managers, and cross-functional partners on scalable solutions.
• Contribute through code reviews, design discussions, and shared engineering standards.
• Content Management Platform: Support creation and distribution of live event metadata consumed by multiple downstream systems.
• Live Channel Orchestration: Help build and maintain services coordinating live video streaming channels and pipelines across the full event lifecycle.
• Media Asset Management: Contribute to systems handling ingest, organization, processing, and lifecycle management of media assets.
• Consumer Metadata Services: Develop backend components responsible for delivering accurate, low-latency metadata to consumer-facing applications, with an emphasis on live content.

Basic Qualifications
You Bring:

• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles.
• 3 experience developing Spring Boot microservices in Java (prefer Java 17 or newer).
• Background in helping with designing and implementing RESTful APIs, with an understanding of API contracts and integration patterns.
• Hands-on experience integrating with external systems using REST and/or EDA.
• Comfortable documenting and describing APIs using OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.
• Experience working with data formats such as JSON and XML.
• Experience writing automated unit tests for Java services using frameworks such as JUnit and Mockito, with attention to code coverage, readability, and maintainability.
• Experience building and working with databases using MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Good written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

Bonus Skills:

• Familiarity with developing brand maintaining cloud-based applications and workflows.
• Familiarity with working with a major cloud provider such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools, including Docker and k8s.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, Argo, or Jenkins.
• Some exposure to observability practices within microservice architectures, including metrics, logging, tracing, and dashboard usage.
• Basic working knowledge of NoSQL databases, such as ScyllaDB or MongoDB.

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