2 months ago
Base Salary
$160k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build end-to-end features across the AI/backend engine, Node service layer, and React UI.
- Extend backend services, model interactions, structured outputs, streaming, state management, and persistence.
- Build Node backend-for-frontend endpoints with SSE streaming, authentication, and type-safe client-server contracts.
- Develop React streaming interfaces with live token streams, progress indicators, interactive charts and tables, and document preview/download flows.
- Handle long-running asynchronous work, partial state, reconnection, large payloads, and mid-flight failures.
- Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests and instrument client and server systems with logs, traces, and error tracking.
- Ship through staged launches with real users, monitor product behavior, and resolve issues between releases.
- Collaborate with product, design, and platform/backend engineers through reviews, design discussions, and technical writing.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience owning significant full-stack features across services, APIs, and user interfaces.
- Strong JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node experience with type-safe backend services and APIs.
- Meaningful React experience and strong web-platform fundamentals, including streaming, asynchronous state, reconnection, performance, and accessibility.
- Experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, and SQL, Git, and CI/CD.
- Understanding of deploying and operating applications in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs, document designs, communicate clearly, and collaborate effectively.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 4+ years of professional full-stack or web application development.
- Preferred experience with Next.js, Remix, TanStack Start, Query, Form, Router, AI/LLM application development, type-safe API contracts, pnpm monorepos, Vite, Auth0, OAuth/OIDC, JWTs, Sentry, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, AdTech, MediaTech, data-heavy products, Python, Go, or shell.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureGitGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaGraphQLJavaScriptNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonReactSQLTypeScript
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About Samba
Samba builds a media intelligence and advertising platform that uses TV ACR data and cross‑platform signals to power audience measurement, targeting, and optimization for brands, agencies, and media companies. Its products support Connected TV, OTT, and digital campaigns with deterministic ad detection and addressable TV capabilities. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company sells data and analytics services to help marketers plan, activate, and measure campaigns across screens.