Staff Backend Engineer, Integrations
About the role
Audience First Streaming TV Advertising platform
This is a unique moment to join Vibe.
About the Role
You'll join the Integrations team, the connective tissue of Vibe's platform, reporting to the Engineering Manager. The team owns everything flowing in and out of Vibe: measurement and attribution integrations, audience connections from CRMs and CDPs, and reporting pipelines.
This role exists because we're building a first-class Developer Platform: opening Vibe's full capabilities as a public API so external partners can build on top of us. Criteo is the first partner live on it.
Three reasons to want this:
- You'll be one of the most senior engineers on Integrations, setting technical direction for a team that's still small enough for one person's decisions to shape it
- You'll own the foundational architecture for a platform external partners are already building against
- AI-augmented development is the expectation here, not the experiment
Build and ship integrations
- Design and implement production-grade integrations with external platforms: CRMs, CDPs, measurement vendors, data partners
- Own integration projects end to end, from scoping through production, with full accountability for outcomes
- Work directly with external partners to define, validate, and evolve data contracts
Developer Platform
- Drive the architecture of Vibe's public API: account, advertiser, and campaign management endpoints built to scale
- Build the documentation, monitoring, and tooling that makes the developer experience genuinely good
- Contribute to the MCP gateway and authentication layers that expose Vibe's capabilities externally
Reliability and scale
- Find the weak points in existing pipelines and lead the rebuild
- Set the standard for code quality on the team: your reviews move the bar, not just the diff
- Use AI tooling to accelerate your own output and raise the team's
Technical leadership
- Set engineering norms and technical direction as the Integrations team grows
- Weigh in on architecture decisions across the team, not just your own projects
- Partner with the Engineering Manager on technical direction and hiring calibration
What You Need
- 8+ years building production backend systems: APIs, data pipelines, distributed services at scale
- Strong TypeScript backend experience
- Direct ownership of a major project, start to finish, not just a contributor role on someone else's
- AWS and Terraform experience, with real architectural decision-making, not just implementation
- A high-ownership background: startup, scale-up, or anywhere you couldn't hand the hard problems to someone else
Nice to Haves
- Third-party integrations experience: ETL, webhooks, REST/GraphQL APIs
- Python/C++/Rust, alongside your TS work
- Experience designing or contributing to developer-facing platforms or public APIs
- Startup experience (~300 people or fewer), current or past. Doesn't need to be your most recent role
Our Values
What We Offer
Variable pay
Hybrid flexibility.
Health insurance.
Meal vouchers
Annual offsite.
Tech Syncs.
Our Interview Process
Recruiter screen.
Manager Interview.
Product Interview.
Technical assessment.
Bar raiser.
Offer.
Equal Opportunity
Referral Instructions
Not included in the source posting: about the role, qualifications.
Skills
Who can apply
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