Senior Full Stack Engineer

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

The Opportunity: 

Fandango 360 is a customer analytics and audience management platform that gives movie studios the tools to build, analyze, and distribute audiences across leading advertising platforms. As a Senior Fullstack Engineer, you will help build and evolve the systems that power audience creation, segmentation, estimation, distribution, and conversion measurement across Fandango’s advertising technology ecosystem. 

This role will own features end-to-end, from Node.js Lambda APIs and PostgreSQL data models to the Angular frontend used by studio clients. You will contribute to platform integrations, server-side event pipelines, compliance-related data workflows, and infrastructure improvements that support scale, reliability, privacy, and performance. 

Why This Role Matters: This role directly supports Fandango’s ability to help studio partners reach and understand audiences more effectively. Your work will enable new advertising platform integrations, strengthen customer analytics capabilities, and improve the reliability of critical audience and conversion workflows. 

This is a remote role, with opportunities for in-person collaboration, team connection, and business-critical meetings approximately 10% of the time. 

What You'll Do:

• Build and maintain end-to-end platform integrations, including Conversion API and Targeting Connector capabilities for new and existing advertising partners.  
• Develop and evolve Lambda-based REST APIs that support audience creation, segmentation, estimation, and distribution across multiple ad platforms.  
• Maintain and enhance server-side event pipelines that route purchase and engagement data to advertising platform conversion endpoints.  
• Implement deletion, opt-out, and compliance-related data feeds in alignment with privacy requirements such as GDPR and CCPA.  
• Deliver frontend features in Angular, NgRx, RxJS, and TypeScript for new channels, distribution flows, dashboards, and client-facing platform capabilities.  
• Contribute to infrastructure and delivery improvements using AWS, Terraform, Serverless Framework, Jenkins, Docker, and emerging GitHub Actions workflows.  

What You Bring:

• Senior-level fullstack engineering experience, with the ability to own technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.  
• Strong backend experience with Node.js, serverless Lambda APIs, asynchronous patterns, REST API design, and third-party API integrations.  
• Working experience with Python 3.x, including the ability to review, debug, or support ETL scripts, AWS Glue jobs, or related data workflows.  
• Deep familiarity with AWS services such as Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, S3, RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, and Cognito.  
• Strong experience designing and optimizing PostgreSQL-backed data models, writing performant SQL, applying effective indexing strategies, and using Sequelize ORM to support reliable application workflows. 
• Experience building production-ready frontend features with Angular, TypeScript, NgRx, and RxJS, including integration with backend APIs and distributed data workflows. 
• Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, including query design, aggregations, and performance considerations.  
• Comfort working with infrastructure and CI/CD tools such as Terraform, Serverless Framework, Docker, Jenkins, Git, and GitHub Actions.  
• A practical understanding of AWS cost management, resource efficiency, and basic FinOps principles.  
• A collaborative engineering mindset grounded in Trust, with sound judgment, accountability, and care for production-quality work.  
• A commitment to Teamwork, including partnering with product, QA, data engineering, and other cross-functional stakeholders to deliver durable solutions.  
• Clear Transparency in technical communication, tradeoff discussions, documentation, and risk escalation.  
• Strong Agility, with the ability to adapt across backend, frontend, data, and infrastructure priorities in a lean engineering environment.  
• An Entrepreneurial Spirit, bringing ownership, curiosity, and initiative to ambiguous problems and new platform opportunities.  

Bonus Points For: 

• Experience with GitHub Actions, AWS Secrets Manager, SSM, Cypress, or AWS data services including EMR, Glue, Redshift, or Spark.  
• Familiarity with maintaining or modernizing legacy deployment and infrastructure components, including Puppet-managed configuration, Apache httpd, SPA routing, or security header management.  
• Experience partnering with data engineering teams on ETL, ML pipeline, data tier, or production workflow issues.  
• Experience supporting ad tech, marketing technology, audience management, customer analytics, privacy workflows, or high-volume event pip 

Why You’ll Love It Here: 

At Versant, you’ll help build technology that supports trusted brands, engaged audiences, and meaningful connections across media, entertainment, sports, and digital platforms. You’ll have the opportunity to work on high-impact systems used by studio partners while collaborating with a lean, experienced team that values ownership, clarity, and thoughtful execution. 

This remote role offers flexibility while still creating opportunities for in-person collaboration, planning, and team connection approximately 10% of the time. You’ll be part of an environment that supports strong engineering practices, cross-functional partnerships, and opportunities to shape technical direction as the platform continues to evolve. 

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

For LA County and City Residents Only: VERSANT Media will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.