UTA is seeking a Platform Engineer responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our backend applications. This will involve continuously analyzing areas for improvement and identifying opportunities to automate, secure, and codify our environment. You will play a key role in fostering our high-quality engineering culture, which values rapid iteration, collaboration, and adherence to best practices. This position offers flexibility to work remotely.
As a Platform Engineer, you’ll be responsible for crafting, building, and sustaining high-performance APIs. You will collaborate closely with other engineers and design teams to ensure our applications are optimized for speed, scalability, and usability. Experience with cloud services, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitHub Actions, Terraform, Kubernetes, Microservices, and API Management Systems is a plus.
The salary range for this role is $170,000 to $190,000 commensurate with experience and skills.
What You Will Do
Application & Platform Development
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and platforms for web applications using Node.js, ensuring high-quality, efficient, and scalable code.
- Develop scalable platform solutions that support dynamic APIs, secure authentication, and efficient service orchestration.
- Implement robust API management practices, including API gateway design, documentation, versioning, monitoring, and security enforcement.
- Design and implement data models using MongoDB and Postgres, ensuring optimal data storage and retrieval.
- Build and maintain GraphQL and REST APIs to provide seamless communication between front-end applications, back-end services, and third-party platforms.
- Optimize search indexes such as Algolia or ElasticSearch to enhance search functionality with a focus on performance and accuracy.
Testing and Monitoring
- Write and maintain unit, integration, and performance tests using frameworks like Vitest or Mocha to ensure code quality and system reliability.
- Proactively monitor system health, troubleshoot production issues, and implement solutions to enhance uptime and performance.
API Management and Security
- Work with API Management Systems to design, secure, and scale API integrations, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
- Implement robust security measures, including token-based authentication, rate limiting, and traffic monitoring, to safeguard APIs and backend systems.
Collaboration and Workflow
- Collaborate with front-end developers and UX/UI designers to deliver seamless, responsive, and high-performing web applications.
- Utilize GitHub Actions for continuous integration and deployment workflows, promoting efficiency and reliability in the development lifecycle.
- Partner with DevOps teams to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and Kubernetes for automated, scalable deployments.
Continuous Learning & Improvement
- Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in backend development, platform engineering, and API management.
- Evaluate and integrate new tools, frameworks, or best practices to continuously enhance our development processes and system architecture.
What You Will Need
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of Back-End development experience
- Proficiency in building and managing APIs using Typescript (REST and GraphQL).
- Experience with database design and management in MongoDB and PostgresDB.
- Proven experience in MongoDB, Postgres, and Algolia/ElasticSearch, with a deep understanding of backend development best practices.
- Experience working with serverless functions, ensuring efficient and scalable server-side processing.
- Having experience working with messaging/streaming systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ is plus.
- Familiarity with deployment processes and CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with version control systems such as Git, and feature branch workflows
- Excellent problem-solving abilities and attention to detail, delivering high-quality code and effective troubleshooting.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, working closely with front-end development and design teams to build innovative and effective web applications.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team, managing your workload and collaborating effectively with other team members to meet project goals.
- Nice to have: Experience with cloud services, Microservices, Kubernetes, IAC, Github actions, Terraform, and API Management Systems, ensuring efficient deployment, management, and scaling of backend applications.
What You Will Get
- The unique and exciting opportunity to work at one of the leading global entertainment companies
- Access to the tools, leadership, and resources you'll need to create and drive a center of excellence
- The opportunity to do the best work of your career
- Competitive benefits and programs to support your well-being
About UTA
UTA unites ideas, opportunities and talent. The company represents some of the world's most iconic, barrier-breaking artists, creators and changemakers—from actors, athletes and musicians to writers, gamers and digital influencers. One of the most influential companies in global entertainment, UTA's business spans talent representation, content production, as well as strategic advisory and marketing work with some of the world's biggest brands. Affiliated companies include Digital Brand Architects, KLUTCH Sports Group, Curtis Brown Group, and MediaLink. UTA is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Nashville, New York and London.
For more information: https://www.unitedtalent.com/about/
UTA and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities.
