Staff Backend Engineer

Vidmob is the creative data company. Its scoring software and analytics have become an essential ingredient in the creative and media decisions of the world's largest marketers and agencies, as they strive to drive business results through improved creative effectiveness. As the leader in creative data, Vidmob's influence lies in its partnerships and integrations across the digital ad ecosystem, its dozens of proprietary models, and in operating the industry's most robustly instrumented human-reinforcement learning model for creativity.

We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer who thrives on complex challenges—someone with deep TypeScript expertise who doesn't just maintain systems, but actively seeks out the hard problems that will scale our platform to power the world's biggest brands. You'll architect distributed backend services, solve technical challenges without playbooks, and mentor a hungry team while directly shaping the infrastructure that transforms how global marketing teams think about creative performance.

What You'll Do:

• Design and implement scalable backend services in TypeScript (using NestJS ) within a service-oriented architecture ( familiarity with Java, Go, and Python a plus)

• Build and maintain clean, well-documented APIs to support product, AI, and analytics workflows

• Ensure backend systems are secure, maintainable, and observable (we use Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and Grafana)

• Contribute to technical decision-making and help shape long-term architecture and best practices

• Dive into & solve complex code issues, build POCs, debug production problems, and lead by example

• Mentor a hungry team of developers to unleash their full potential, via code reviews, clinics, and workshops to elevate backend craftsmanship

• Work with engineering leadership to align technical vision with business impact, while evaluating promising new technologies for potential use

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including production experience with TypeScript/Node.js ; hands-on experience with NestJS or similar backend frameworks

• Strong knowledge of service-oriented architecture and inter-service communication patterns

• Experience working with a variety of databases:

  • NoSQL: MongoDB, ElasticSearch

  • Data Warehouses: Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery

  • Relational: MySQL

• Proficient in cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS ) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, API security, and performance tuning

• Track record of coaching developers, establishing standards, and raising overall team capability

• B+ oral and written English skills, with experience in distributed global teams working across borders and timezones

Big Plus

• Experience working with GenAI tools (Gemini , OpenAI , Claude) and ML tools such as Amazon SageMaker

• Background in data processing pipelines (e.g., data ingestion, media processing)

• Experience building APIs used by internal tools or external developers
  

This role requires occasional travel to our US HQ in NYC.

Why Vidmob?

Creative has finally entered the data era, and Vidmob is leading the way. We're building the operating system for a new generation of marketing teams, where creative becomes a measurable, repeatable source of growth. At Vidmob, you'll define a new category, shape products that empower the world's biggest brands, and build the connective tissue between creativity and performance at global scale.

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