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Software Engineer
Contract: New York, New York, US span>
Salary Range: 68.00 - 77.00 | Per Hour
Job Code: 369132
End Date: 2026-06-03
Days Left: 28 days, 9 hours left
Job Title: Sr. Full Stack (Python/React) Engineer
Pay Rate: $68.57/hr to 77.14/hr
Location: Remote
Start Date: ASAP
Interview Times: Wednesday, May 6th
- 3:00-6:00 pm
- 45-minute time slots
About:
- Our client is a global media and entertainment company that creates and distributes film, television, news, and streaming content across a broad portfolio of brands and platforms.
- It operates major studios, networks, and theme parks, bringing its content to life through experiences, consumer products, and destinations worldwide.
Summary:
- We are seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to play a critical role in the evolution of a rights management platform that governs copyright, trademark, and franchise rights across client’s film and television portfolio.
This is a high-impact, highly visible engineering role focused on:
- Expanding and modernizing a mission-critical application
- Driving cloud transformation (VM → AWS)
- Building scalable, performant systems that support complex legal and licensing workflows
- You’ll work across the full stack—owning both frontend and backend development—while partnering closely with product, legal, and business stakeholders in a domain that is both technically and operationally complex.
What You’ll Do:
Full Stack Development
- Design, build, and enhance a modern web application using React (frontend) and Python (backend)
- Develop clean, maintainable, and scalable code across the full stack
- Implement new features supporting rights tracking, licensing workflows, and content ownership management
- Ensure seamless integration between UI, APIs, and backend services
Backend & API Engineering
- Build and optimize RESTful APIs and backend services
- Refactor and improve legacy code to enhance performance and maintainability
- Handle complex data models tied to rights, contracts, and licensing structures
- Ensure high availability and reliability of critical services
Cloud Migration & Modernization
- Lead and contribute to the migration from VM-based infrastructure to AWS
- Support lift-and-shift strategies while identifying opportunities for cloud-native improvements
- Work with services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and others as applicable
- Improve system scalability, observability, and resilience in a cloud environment
Performance & Data Optimization
- Write and optimize complex SQL queries for high-volume datasets
- Improve database performance, indexing, and query efficiency
- Ensure data integrity across rights management workflows
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with product managers, legal teams, and business stakeholders to translate rights management requirements into technical solutions
- Contribute to architecture discussions and technical decision-making
- Participate in agile ceremonies, code reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives
System Ownership & Modernization
- Take ownership of an existing application and drive its evolution
- Identify technical debt and implement scalable solutions
- Contribute to long-term modernization strategy and engineering best practices
Must-Haves
- 5–10 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong full-stack development experience in production environments
- Advanced proficiency with React (modern JavaScript frameworks, hooks, component architecture)
- Strong backend development experience with Python
- Hands-on experience with AWS (including cloud migration or modernization efforts)
- Strong experience with SQL and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
- Experience contributing to end-to-end system upgrades or transformations
- Experience working on projects related to converting from an on prem to cloud environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within media, entertainment, or content rights management systems
- Familiarity with TypeScript
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time, hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, and paid holidays annually – as applicable.
Job Requirement
- Full Stack Development (Frontend + Backend)
- Python
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- React
- RESTful API Design & Development
- Microservices Architecture
- Cloud Computing & Migratio
- EC2
- S3
- RDS
- Lambda
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Oracle
- Database Design & Query Optimization
- System Design & Scalability
- Application Modernization
- CI/CD Pipelines & DevOps Practices
- Version Control (Git)
- API Development & Integra
- Data Modeling (Complex Legal / Licensing Structures)
- Performance Tuning & Optimization
- High Availability & Reliability Engineering
- Legacy System Refactoring
- UI Development with React
- State Management & Component Design
- Responsive Web Design
- Frontend Performance Optimization
- Cloud Migration (VM to AWS)
- Infrastructure Modernization
- Distributed Systems
- Monitoring & Observability
- Agile / Scrum Methodologies
- Code Reviews & Best Practices
- Problem Solving & Analytical Thinking
- Ownership & System Leadership
- AWS
Reach Out to a Recruiter
- Recruiter
- Phone
- Prince Singh
- prince.singh@collabera.com