Staff Software Engineer, Video Platform - Fandango at Home

Company Description

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.

Job Description

The Opportunity

As a Staff Software Engineer, Video Platform, you will serve as a technical leader within Fandango at Home, owning critical systems that power identity management and eCommerce experiences. This role sits at the intersection of platform reliability, security, and revenue generation—ensuring seamless authentication and flawless transaction processing at scale.

Why This Role Matters:
This role directly impacts customer trust and business performance by safeguarding authentication flows and ensuring the accuracy and reliability of every transaction. Your expertise will minimize downtime in the purchase funnel, protect user identity, and enable scalable growth across our video platform ecosystem.

This is a fully remote role, with opportunities for intentional in-person collaboration approximately 10% of the time to support team connection, planning, and key initiatives.

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and development of scalable IAM and eCommerce systems, translating product strategy into high-quality, production-ready solutions
• Architect and implement secure authentication flows (OAuth2, OIDC) and robust payment processing lifecycles with a focus on accuracy and compliance
• Serve as the subject matter expert for diagnosing and resolving complex issues across the identity and purchase funnel, ensuring minimal service disruption
• Drive performance optimization across distributed systems, including databases, caching layers, and microservices architectures
• Partner cross-functionally to evaluate technical trade-offs, communicate risks, and influence platform direction

Qualifications

What You Bring

• 8 years of experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems

Technical Expertise:

• Expert-level Java with deep knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, and build tooling (e.g., Gradle)
• Advanced SQL expertise (MySQL/Aurora) with a focus on transaction integrity and performance tuning
• Experience with NoSQL systems for caching or distributed data use cases
• Strong knowledge of authentication protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT)
• Deep understanding of payment processing lifecycles (authorizations, captures, refunds) and related compliance considerations

Ways of Working (How We Do It):

• Trust, Teamwork, Transparency, Agility, and Entrepreneurial Spirit are demonstrated through your ability to lead complex problem-solving, collaborate across teams, and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Exceptional troubleshooting skills across microservices, databases, and network layers, with a proactive and accountable approach to incident resolution
• Ability to articulate architectural decisions, technical debt, and post-mortem insights with clarity and transparency

Bonus Points:

• Full-stack experience across backend, frontend, and cloud infrastructure
• Experience with real-time data systems such as Kafka and caching technologies like Redis

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Opportunity to work on high-impact systems that directly influence customer experience and revenue
• A culture grounded in Trust, Teamwork, Transparency, Agility, and Entrepreneurial Spirit
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package
• Fully remote flexibility with intentional opportunities for in-person collaboration
• The chance to innovate within a fast-moving, consumer-focused digital platform environment

Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-Versant worksite, most commonly an employee’s residence. 

Additional Information

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.