# Backend Engineer

About Early Media Early Media is creating and distributing groundbreaking original series. We craft narratives with viral potential while preserving the heart of indie production, telling meaningful stories audiences actually care about. Every creative decision is sharpened by a proprietary testing and marketing engine that collapses the distance between filmmaker and audience into the tightest iteration loop in the industry. The platform ecosystem behind Twist is being built from scratch - Twist, our streaming app; the Analytics Engine; and a Prediction Engine developed in partnership with our Data Science Lead. We're looking for a backend engineer to help build and support the architecture underneath all three. What you'll own Features and services within Twist and Analytics Engine (ie. Auth, User Profile, Loyalty and IAP, and more.) Clean, well-tested code that a small team can move fast on top of. Your piece of shared infrastructure starting from auth, logging, monitoring and built to the same standard as everything else. Bugs and incidents in the systems you touch, start to finish. Must-haves Executes fast and doesn't need hand-holding to get there. 2-4 years building bac

- **Id**: 1188434
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/early-media-backend-engineer-early-media>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-24T14:46:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T17:38:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 52
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1851
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising

## Company

- **Id**: 674338
- **Name**: Early Media
- **Domain**: early.media
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/early-4>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 88000
- **Max usd**: 181000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1118

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Flink** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 52

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-24T15:13:27Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 30
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.685
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 51
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

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