# Senior Backend Engineer

Senior 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 platforam 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 senior backend engineer to own the architecture underneath all three. What you'll own The core backend architecture that spans Twist, Analytics Engine, Prediction Engine, and our Ecommerce platform. The pipes behind the Analytics Engine and Prediction Engine - starting from ingestion, sentiment analysis, dashboards, to campaign attribution. Logging, monitoring, and alerting that catches problems before they become incidents. The technical judgment of the engineers around you, through review and direct mentorship. Must-haves

- **Id**: 819618
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/early-senior-backend-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **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**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-17T23:12:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-17
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T23:12:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 87
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2177
- **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**: 128000
- **Max usd**: 238000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 3667

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Flink** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 87

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T12:26:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 16
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.556
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 86
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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