Staff Engineer - API & Data / The BOXOFFICE COMPANY

WORAUF DU DICH FREUEN DARFST:

You will join the Data business unit as the first hire on the new Discovery team. The team owns critical APIs and services on Google Cloud, with a TypeScript backend on PostgreSQL and a frontend built in React and TanStack. The first phase of your work will be backend-heavy – designing services, modeling data, optimizing queries, building event-driven workflows – but the role is fullstack by design: as projects evolve, you're also expected to contribute to product features end-to-end, including the frontend layers that will distribute and showcase our data. We’re hiring a staff engineer because we want someone who can take ownership of architectural decisions, push back when needed, mentor others, and move fast without breaking what matters.

• Design and operate production TypeScript APIs serving high-traffic cinema products: exhibitor websites, mobile apps, online ticketing, showtimes listing, and business intelligence dashboards
• Design and implement new data ingestion mechanisms
• Model and evolve PostgreSQL schemas for complex domains
• Build on GCP-native primitives: Cloud Run, Cloud Scheduler, Eventarc, BigQuery, Cloud Logging, Pub/Sub
• Contribute to event-driven and agent-based systems, including AI-powered features built on our proprietary data
• Shape technical decisions through RFCs and code reviews, and mentor mid-level engineers

WORAUF WIR UNS FREUEN DÜRFEN:

What we're looking for

• 6+ years building production backend systems, with deep TypeScript/Node.js expertise
• Strong PostgreSQL skills: schema design, query optimization, migrations, transactional thinking
• Hands‑on experience with GCP (or comparable cloud) — Cloud Run, BigQuery, IAM, networking
• Comfort with the fullstack mindset: you can own a feature from the database to the UI when needed. Familiarity with React and TanStack is a strong plus
• Solid engineering fundamentals: testing, observability, security, performance

ZUSÄTZLICH BEKOMMST DU VON UNS:

How we work

• Autonomy by default. You own your scope. We trust senior engineers to make calls and document the why.
• We invest in keeping the stack current — dependencies, patterns, internal libraries. You won't inherit a decade of accumulated debt.
• AI-native engineering. We invest seriously in AI-assisted development and believe in the accelerating factors it provides.
• RFCs over meetings. Important decisions are written down and debated openly.
• Pragmatism over hype. We build for the next 5 years, not the next demo.

Location & Conditions

• Flexible work arrangement — remote, hybrid, or on‑site, to be discussed based on your situation. We’re a multi‑country organization and the team is spread between Europe and North America.
• Working language: English (written and spoken).
• Full‑time permanent contract (CDI)