Senior Fullstack Engineer (6-month Contract)

Job Summary:
As a Software Development Engineer II in the CMS Engineering team, you will design, build, and operate end-to-end capabilities across the CMS platform. You will work across the web frontend and backend layers, using modern web technologies along with React and/or Java to deliver reliable, scalable, and intuitive content-management experiences. You will own complex features from technical design and implementation through testing, deployment, monitoring, and operational handoff. The role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving problems across the stack and are passionate about building high-quality products for content operations at scale.
About the Team:
VoD Video Engineering team is the backbone of our streaming platform — responsible for the entire lifecycle of on-demand video content, from ingest and transcoding through packaging, storage, and delivery. We own mission-critical systems that process thousands of hours of video daily, serving a global audience with reliability, low latency, and the highest quality of experience. Our team operates at the forefront of media technology, collaborating closely with CDN, playback, and content operations teams to continuously raise the bar on performance and scalability. If you're passionate about large-scale distributed systems and the technology behind modern video streaming, this is the team to be on.
Key responsibilities:
Own features end to end, from understanding business and operational requirements through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support
Build responsive, accessible, and maintainable web applications for CMS and Content Operations workflows
Design and implement backend services, APIs, integrations, and asynchronous workflows using Node.js and/or Java
Develop interfaces and services for metadata management, validation, publishing, scheduling, bulk operations, entity replication, and content administration
Build search, filtering, reporting, and processing-insights capabilities across content, metadata, and asset attributes
Design clear and reliable API contracts between frontend applications and backend services
Integrate CMS with RMS and other internal content, asset, video, and platform services
Apply distributed-systems patterns such as retries, idempotency, timeouts, failure handling, and graceful degradation
Build reusable frontend components and backend patterns that improve consistency, maintainability, and delivery speed
Own production readiness, including testing, performance, resilience, security, deployment, monitoring, and operational handoff
Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, root-cause analysis, and preventive reliability improvements
Collaborate with Product, Design, Content Operations, QA, and partner engineering teams to deliver measurable outcomes
Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical design discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions
Requirements
3+ years of professional experience building and operating production web applications across frontend and backend layers
Strong proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript and a modern frontend framework, preferably React
Strong experience with Node.js and/or Java with a backend framework such as Spring Boot
Solid understanding of RESTful API design, asynchronous workflows, data modeling, and service integration
Good understanding of HTML, CSS, responsive design, accessibility, browser behavior, and frontend performance
Experience building complex forms, tables, search and filtering interfaces, file uploads, dashboards, and workflow-driven applications
Understanding of databases, caching, messaging systems, event-driven architectures, and distributed-system fundamentals
Experience with relational databases, SQL, Redis or similar caching technologies, and query-performance tuning
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and infrastructure-as-code practices
Experience with unit, integration and frontend testing
Comfort with production observability, including logs, metrics, & error tracking
Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical approaches and trade-offs clearly
Collaborative mindset with a willingness to mentor others and share knowledge
Preferred education and experience:
Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or a related field with 3+ years of experience in backend development
Benefits
About us
Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media and Entertainment companies in the world! We're headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies.
We are Proximity — a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company's success will be huge. You'll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product and design teams. Here's a quick guide to getting to know us better:
Watch our CEO, Hardik Jagda, tell you all about Proximity.
Read about Proximity's values and meet some of our Proxonauts here.
Explore our website, blog, and the design wing — Studio Proximity.
Get behind-the-scenes with us on Instagram! Follow @ProxWrks and @H.Jagda

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