Platform Engineer - Backend & CMS Integration

Weather Group Television LLC • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

Local Now is a free, ad-supported streaming service delivering local news, weather, sports, and lifestyle programming to viewers across virtually every connected device. As part of Allen Media Group, we operate at meaningful scale across mobile, smart TVs, streaming sticks, set-top boxes, and the web. We are now investing in a ground-up rebuild of our streaming platform with a privacy-first architecture, modern shared-code strategy, and the engineering rigor needed to grow sustainably.

We build for audiences who expect frictionless playback on any device, and for advertisers who depend on us to deliver reliable, high-quality monetization. The work is tangible: every improvement we make is felt by millions of viewers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience building production services at scale.
• Strong proficiency in C# and .NET Core, along with Go, Kotlin, Python, TypeScript/Node, or similar, and the discipline to write services that are maintainable years from now.
• Experience integrating with third-party SaaS platforms — particularly those that own a critical part of the user-facing experience (CMS, identity, billing, ad-serving).
• Solid grasp of API design, distributed-systems patterns, caching, queueing, and the operational realities of running services in production.
• Deep experience with ad tech ecosystems, including server-side ad insertion (SSAI) with MediaTailor, beaconing, and integrating Ad SDKs such as The Trade Desk (UID2) and SpringServe.
• Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including IaC patterns and secure-by-default service deployment.
• Awareness of privacy, security, and compliance considerations as engineering concerns, not legal afterthoughts.
• Excellent collaboration skills; comfortable working with vendors, frontend teams, and product partners simultaneously.
• Extensive experience with SQL, including writing stored procedures, and designing scalable analytics table structures.

Nice To Haves

• Experience integrating with a media-industry CMS (Quickplay, Brightcove, Vimeo OTT, MediaKind, or similar).
• Streaming or media-tech background — playback manifests, ad-stitching/SSAI, DRM, content packaging.
• Familiarity with privacy/consent technology (Fides, OneTrust, Ethyca, or similar) and DSAR engineering workflows.
• Experience using AI coding assistants effectively to ship more in less time without sacrificing quality.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services that abstract our content management system and serve content to client apps across many device platforms.
• Define and evolve API contracts for cross-platform client consumption, including content metadata, playback manifests, ad-decision endpoints, and personalization signals.
• Partner with the CMS vendor and internal stakeholders to integrate, troubleshoot, and extend content workflows end-to-end.
• Implement privacy-first patterns server-side: consent propagation, data minimization, DSAR plumbing, and PII handling at the platform layer.
• Instrument the platform for observability and operational analytics — error rates, latency, content-availability, and ad-decisioning performance.
• Work with frontend, platform, and ad-tech engineers to ensure the backend evolves in step with what clients and monetization actually need.
• Contribute to architecture review, code review, and the broader engineering bar of the team.

Benefits

• equal opportunity employer
• inclusive environment
• no discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic
• consideration for employment without regard to these characteristics
• workplace free from harassment and discrimination

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed