Senior Software Engineer, API Design
At Viral Nation, we specialize in building social-first ecosystems for brands to connect with the modern consumer journey. Our integrated solutions align strategy, talent, media, and technology with culturally relevant creativity to scale the world’s fastest-growing digital brands. Viral Nation offers a fluid, creative, and growth-oriented environment that will support your ambitions to apply your talents in an open, collaborative, and fast-paced culture. Our ability to stay at the forefront of the industry has fuelled our success and will guide us in paving the path forward. We’re driven to push boundaries and think beyond today to deliver strategies, and we’re just getting started.
While we continuously exceed our goals, we need your help – our success is only as great as our people. Strong performance leads to high expectations, and we must keep raising the bar!
Viral Nation is looking for a highly-skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer, API to join our dynamic organization. This role will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our engineering processes. As a senior member of the tech org, this role will collaborate within a cross-functional team, but also with technical and non-technical teams across the business, providing technical leadership, backend architectural guidance, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
What You'll Do Here:
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, secure, and scalable APIs within Node.js
- Lead the technical design and implementation of complex features and modules, ensuring adherence to architectural principles and coding standards defined by the architecture committee.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine and break down requirements into user stories and tasks in the squad backlog.
- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor junior engineers to foster a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.
- Troubleshoot and debug issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement effective solutions to ensure the stability and performance of APIs.
- Implement and advocate for performance optimization techniques to meet platform NFRs such as availability, reliability, scalability and stability.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and trends, and evaluate their potential use in our products and platform.
- Collaborate with the SRE team to optimize deployment processes, monitor application performance, and ensure reliability and scalability.
- Work closely with the engineering team to refactor and optimize existing codebase for long-term sustainability.
- Actively participate in Scrum rituals, such as sprint planning, estimation, daily syncs, and retrospectives, to drive project delivery and maintain transparency.
What You'll Need to Have:
- A minimum of 5+ years of experience in API development with a strong focus on architecture and design.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Able to demonstrate a high-level of expertise in backend technologies such as Node.js, Python (Django) or similar.
- In-depth knowledge of database systems (both SQL and NoSQL), data model design and data access patterns.
- Considerable expertise in web application architecture and design patterns, and performance optimization techniques.
- Strong background in microservices architecture and API design.
- Proven track record of identifying security best practices for RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
- Superior expertise in testing tools and frameworks.
- Deep understanding of CI/CD tools and processes, including containerization.
- Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
- Clear and concise cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, OR relevant experience.
Where an offer falls within this range is determined through the interview process. Candidates are benchmarked by the hiring team based on role scope, relevant experience, skill alignment, and expected impact, using consistent and objective criteria.
At Viral Nation, compensation is structured, performance-led, and market-aligned. Pay decisions are intentional, based on role requirements, performance, and market alignment by country, and are set to maintain internal pay equity across comparable roles and levels.
Compensation progression is tied to demonstrated performance, expanded scope, and sustained contribution over time, not tenure alone. Employee compensation is reviewed regularly through formal performance reviews and check-ins to ensure alignment with role expectations and impact.
DEI Commitment:
Viral Nation is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our agency. Viral Nation welcomes applications from people with visible and non-visible disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.
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