Senior Technical Lead

Founded in 2007, Mediamorph's cloud based distribution management platform is being used by leading Entertainment companies to help them operate more efficiently with greater visibility and control in the new world of Digital Distribution. Companies such as Warner Bros, Fox, Sony Pictures, Disney ABC, NBCU, HBO and many others rely on Mediamorph to help them manage the core tasks in distribution from analytics to licensing to syndication to reporting to revenue recognition and royalties. With our integration with over 300 distribution outlets from iTunes to Hulu to BSkyB and France Telecom we give our customers a single picture of their content distribution no matter the media, business model or territory.

Position

Mediamorph is seeking to hire a Senior Technical Lead engineer based on our Los Angeles office.    As a startup with a small core team, the candidate will have to be able to take ownership of the complete Mediamorph codebase,  from MongoDB to PostgreSQL to Java to Javascript, and be ready to develop on a wide variety of technologies across the entire technology stack as well as find and introduce new technologies into the stack as needed.

The candidate will need to be in a customer-facing role and be able to interact with the customer team and will  need to take ownership of selected client accounts, tracking requirements and deliverables, and they will be expected to stick to timelines on very quick-delivery demos and pilots.   The candidate needs to be highly self-motivated and ready to attack a rapidly changing and dynamic environment.   A developer used to working on long-running projects with predictable release dates would likely not be suitable for this role.  This position shall report directly to the Chief Technology Officer. 

Responsibilities will also include:

  • Technical Design – develop detailed design documents from requirements provided by directly interacting with the customer team or the Mediamorph Business Analyst team in a form consumable by third party developers. Though the requirements may initially be provided by a specific customer, the designs developed need to be generic and needs to be integrated into the core product.
  • Plan Development – formulate development plan with a mix of offshore and onshore resources
  • Product Development – oversee and participate in development of the product, leading the effort on a day-to-day basis

The Senior Technical Lead is responsible for conceiving and executing the technical design of the company’s core product.

Required Skills:

The successful candidate will have had experience developing software for either licensed deployment or SaaS deployment.

  • Demonstrated expertise in software development across multiple application layers and technologies
  • Good Java front end and back-end development skills using struts and hibernate frameworks
  • Solid database development skills including stored procedures
  • Experience with linux deployments
  • MondoDB, JASPER, PostgreSQL, python skills helpful but not required
  • Demonstrated experience constructing high-volume, zero down time server applications.
  • Strong application performance tuning across multiple application layers

A four year college degree in computer science is required.   The individual must be a strong communicator to technical and non-technical audiences including offshore developers and customers.

Compensation:

Mediamorph pays a competitive base salary and full medical and dental benefits.   A key additional component of your compensation plan will be in equity whose value will grow as the result of your efforts.

Mediamorph is based in New York City with offices in Los Angeles and London.  If you are interested in this position please send us an email at jobs@mediamorph.com.