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Univision
Atlanta, GA; Atlanta WUVG - 3350 Peachtree Road, Suite 1250
Source: Univision careers · View original posting
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TelevisaUnivision is the leading Spanish-language media company in the world! We’re investing in our content, our people, and our platforms across digital, streaming, social, audio, linear, and live events. As we continue to grow our global streaming platform, ViX, our technology teams are focused on building scalable, reliable, and secure experiences for millions of users across devices and markets.
The ViX Engineering team is seeking a Software Engineer, Backend – Lead/Architect to provide senior technical leadership across the backend platforms and services that power our streaming ecosystem. This role will lead the architecture, design, development, and evolution of highly scalable backend systems supporting APIs, content and metadata, identity and entitlements, subscriptions, payments, search, personalization, and other core platform capabilities.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role that will partner closely with Engineering, Product, Data, Cloud/Infrastructure, DevOps, and Quality Engineering. The Lead/Architect will establish technical direction and engineering standards, lead complex initiatives, and provide architectural guidance and mentorship to engineers while remaining actively involved in development, releases, production support, and problem-solving.
YOUR DAY-DAY: (Responsibilities)
Lead the architecture, design, and development of scalable backend services, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems supporting ViX.
Define technical direction and architecture with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, security, and maintainability.
Remain hands-on in software development, including solution design, development of critical components, code reviews, troubleshooting, and production support.
Lead complex engineering initiatives from architecture and design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing operation.
Design backend systems capable of supporting high-volume consumer traffic across multiple products, devices, and markets.
Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to translate product roadmaps and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Collaborate with Cloud/Infrastructure and DevOps teams on cloud-native deployment, scalability, resilience, monitoring, and operational efficiency.
Partner across Data, Analytics, Personalization, Payments, Content, Identity, and other technology teams to support shared platform capabilities.
Establish and promote engineering standards and best practices for architecture, API design, code quality, testing, observability, performance, and security.
Identify technical risks, dependencies, scalability concerns, and opportunities to modernize systems and reduce technical debt.
Lead architecture and technical design reviews and influence major engineering decisions across teams.
Mentor engineers through technical guidance, code and design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
Support production reliability, including incident investigation, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation.
Evaluate emerging technologies and architectural approaches that improve scalability, reliability, developer productivity, or customer experience.
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