MediaLab is a media & technology company focused on acquiring and growing properties and global brands. The organization is a unique combination of private equity, holding company and operating entity. We continue to expand and are proud of the prominent market position of our brands.
Come join an exceptionally talented team of engineers, designers, product and business builders. HQ is located in sunny Santa Monica, California with growing teams in New York, and across cities in the US and Latin America.
Your Role at MediaLab
MediaLab Engineering supports a growing number of applications across multiple business verticals under the MediaLab umbrella. For this particular position, we work in Typescript and Golang, and will prefer prior experience in either. You will be responsible for working on both the Frontend of our Moderation Panel and the backend services that support our brands trust and safety efforts as well as supporting their integration efforts into our system. We're looking for proactive engineers with real technical depth and a desire to understand the entire business.
We want people who are passionate and care deeply about the success of the whole company.
What You'll Do
- Work collaboratively with product, design, and other engineering teams to implement new features and transform existing products
- Build stable, extensible, and testable code
- Participate in design and code reviews
- Help improve detection of inappropriate content across all our brands to enhance user and community safety
- Design, maintain and scale new and existing microservices efficiently
- Work with Next.js and TypeScript for our frontend applications and Golang for our microservices infrastructure
What We're Searching For
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience within increasingly complex engineering organizations
- Ability to debug production issues as they arise
- Experience with consumer-facing applications or web development
- Extensive experience designing, building, maintaining, deploying, and monitoring production-ready microservices and large-scale distributed systems on Kubernetes, preferably using Golang. Python is a nice to have
- Front-end experience with TypeScript frameworks. React and Next.js is a nice to have
- Experience managing Google Cloud infrastructure resources using terraform
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and thorough testing practices
- Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate between engineering and product teams
- Passion for continuous learning of new technologies and implementing best practices
At MediaLab, we rely on a range of backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. We value diversity, and we’re proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity workplace.Apply for this job
