SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (REMOTE), ROMANIA/EASTERN EUROPE

We Realise Potential in Your Story - Wherever you are.

Based in the heart of Shoreditch, we are a multi-platform production company, social media agency, and digital media network who are currently on a quest to find a Senior Software Engineer to remotely join our Data, Tech and Product team.

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to define, design, and help deliver a next-generation video content automation, scheduling and distribution platform used across our portfolio of 130+ YouTube channels. As the Senior Software Engineer, you will split your time between technical leadership (50%) — architecture, standards, planning, direction — and contributing code (50%) across backend services, automations, pipelines, and UI components. This will include working closely with the Product Owner, end-users, and stakeholders across the business to translate complex operational workflows into scalable technical solutions. You will also directly manage a blend of onshore and offshore developers, ensuring clarity of tasks, code quality, and delivery velocity.

🌎 IMPORTANT INFORMATION 

Although you will be a fully integrated member of the Little Dot Studios team, your formal employment contract will be managed through our Employer of Record (EOR) partner in your country.

What this means for you:

• Daily Life: You work 100% for Little Dot Studios, reporting to our managers and attending our team meetings.

• Pay & Benefits: Our EOR partner, Deel, handles your local payroll, taxes, and statutory benefits (like health insurance or pension) to ensure you are fully compliant with your local labor laws.

• Protection: This model ensures you have a legal employment contract in your home country while enjoying a career with a global company.

HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME 

Architecture & Technical Direction

• Defining the system architecture for our products, focussing on our scheduling and automation platform, spanning backend services, data pipelines, APIs, and UI layers.

• Setting technical standards for code quality, security, observability, CI/CD, and cloud deployment.

• Building and maintaining the architectural roadmap, ensuring scalability to >500 video uploads/week and multi-channel automation workflows.

• Driving decisions on storage models, event flows, orchestration, API boundaries, and data schemas.

• Owning the technical implementation strategy for GCP-based components (BigQuery, Firestore, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Composer/Airflow).

• Designing frameworks for automation, title processing, workflow orchestration, and validation pipelines.

Hands-On Engineering

• Contributing production-grade code inPython, TypeScript/React, and GCP environments.

• Building backend services (Cloud Run / Cloud Functions), data pipelines, scheduling engines, and workflow automations.

• Implementing UI components in React/Next.js for dashboards, scheduling calendars, and admin tooling.

• Optimising end-to-end performance of scheduling algorithms, metadata extraction flows, and content management workflows.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborating with channel managers, editors, rights teams, and operations stakeholders to understand real-world constraints.

• Participating in user interviews and feedback loops to validate product assumptions.

• Communicating technical trade-offs and prioritisation clearly to non-technical audiences.

• Supporting PM in roadmap planning, phased delivery, and discovery cycles.

Leadership & Delivery Management

• Working with the Director of Data, Tech & Product (DTP) and Partnerships Manager to define the backlog, scope projects, and break work into clear deliverables.

• Leading daily engineering operations across onshore and offshore teams, ensuring productivity and alignment.

• Reviewing and approving architecture proposals, pull requests, and system changes.

• Mentoring mid-level developers, setting standards, and supporting their technical growth.

• Helping to coordinate QA and release processes, ensuring stable, safe rollouts.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Skills matter, experience is useful, attitude is everything. 

• Demonstrable experience of software engineering, including experience in senior or architect-level roles.

• Strong hands-on experience with Python, including building production APIs and async workflows.

• Solid experience with React / TypeScript for admin UIs and dashboards.

• Deep understanding of GCP, including: BigQuery, Firestore, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions / Cloud Run, IAM & service accounts

• Experience designing and scaling distributed systems, workflow engines, or scheduling/pipeline software.

• Strong SQL and data modelling skills, ideally with analytics and ETL familiarity.

• Demonstrated experience managing and coordinating offshore and onshore development teams.

• Ability to balance technical excellence with pragmatic delivery.

NICE-TO-HAVE
Not mandatory, but a bonus.

• Experience with media platforms, digital content pipelines, or YouTube CMS / YouTube API.

• Familiarity with ML/AI classification, embeddings, transcript-based tagging, or automation-first workflows.

• Exposure to Airflow / Dagster / Prefect for orchestration.

• Experience with high-throughput scheduling or rules engines.
  

LITTLE DOT, BIG IMPACT 🔥

We’re probably the biggest studio you didn’t know was fuelling your favourite content. We’ve been one of the top dogs in the digital content space since 2013 (some would say, before its potential was even fully realised). We're proud to work with some of the hottest TV and movie studios, distributors, rights holders, sports federations and brands in the business.

USE OF AI IN APPLICATIONS

Please keep it human; we want to get to know you - your thinking, and your originality. Whilst generative AI tools can be helpful for text refinement, we require your application to jobs at Little Dot Studios to be in your own voice and words. AI cannot be used to generate your responses and any applications appearing to be entirely AI-generated will not be progressed.

WE ARE COMMITTED

We are committed to ensuring every employee feels valued and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. We welcome candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities to apply to our vacancies, and we strive to create an environment where differences are celebrated, and everyone has equal opportunity to thrive.
Learn more about us, our values and our commitments please visit our website www.littledotstudios.com for more information.