The Whip Media Group of companies is transforming the business of content throughout the global entertainment ecosystem. Our portfolio includes media and trusted technology organizations that deliver immense client value through new data-driven solutions, empowering unprecedented real-time insights. Together, our companies track billions of consumer actions and financial transactions that accelerate innovation for buyers and sellers of content. 

 We’re Not Your Typical Start-Up

We’ve built a unique Content Value Management (CVM) platform for B2B that’s leveraged by some of the largest players in the entertainment industry, we have a management team that’s run multiple billion-dollar companies, and we’re still only 130 people…for now. We’re growing quickly and have a cool sister company, TV Time, the world’s largest TV and movie tracking app with millions of users around the world. Want to be the next on board?

We're hiring on a Director of Software Engineering to join our team in NYC or Los Angeles. In this role, you will lead multiple development efforts to ensure the successful delivery of new products, enhancements to our existing suite of products, and provide customized solutions to our customers. We are looking for people that can take ownership and join our high-energy, start-up environment. It is this energy - that has helped us create the leading web-based platform that supports mission-critical, operational functions for nearly all of the major film studios, TV broadcasters, and cable operators in the world.

We run with Java, Spring, JavaScript, Python and PostgreSQL technologies, in addition to utilizing a number of Amazon Web Services solutions.

How you will contribute: 

• Ensures technical viability of solutions as defined in the requirements and change requests
• Plan, supervise and review the work of multiple development teams
• Mentor more junior members of the development team and help them grow their skills
• Lead the design and review code in Java, Python and SQL
• Lead the design and improvement of data models to handle our ever-increasing data volume
• Lead the development and utilization of algorithms to handle data synchronization across distributed systems
• Write technical requirements and design documents
• Work closely with a cross-functional team on the development of our new platforms and internal tools
• Lead the the design and development of solution to process data from internal and external data sources utilizing existing product APIs
• Lead the design and development of reporting solutions using SQL and third-party BI platforms

To be successful in this role you'll need:

• Bachelors or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or comparable experience
• 10+ years of experience with software design and development skills in Java.
• 5+ years of experience managing software engineers
• Experience working directly with product mangers and/or business analysts to develop and refine requirements and user stories
• Experience with Spring and core Spring components (especially Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Data and Spring Data REST)
• Familiarity with agile development
• Experience and comfort working in a startup environment
• Experience with data modeling, in both SQL (ideally PostgreSQL) and non-relational technologies
• Exposure and understanding of NoSQL systems such as Elasticsearch
• Experience with git and unit testing
• Experience providing mentoring to other engineers 

Preferred:

• Experience with AWS APIs and services a plus (S3,Lambda, SNS, SQS)
• Experience with Web Services (REST) a plus
• Experience with JavaScript a plus

What we offer:

• An executive team that is composed of industry veterans with a track record of scaling startups
• 401K, Healthcare, Vision, Dental
• Generous PTO policy
• Free Lunch on Friday and unlimited snacks!

Whip Media Group is a technology and data insights company that is transforming the global entertainment ecosystem. Our platform helps companies determine how to package, market, track and value TV shows & movies in this new world of cross-platform, cross-device, time-shifted, global viewership.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.