Software Engineer

ABOUT VIRLO Virlo helps marketers, agencies, and software companies find and use short-form video data. Customers use Virlo to search videos, track creators and accounts, identify outlier content, export research, and access social-video data through an API. Some use the platform for internal research and marketing workflows. Others build Virlo's data into their own products and customer-facing tools. We're a small remote team, so engineers work directly with the founders, customers, and the people responsible for product decisions. THE ROLE Virlo is hiring a backend software engineer to work on the systems that collect, process, search, and deliver short-form video data. You'll build product features and API endpoints, improve data freshness and reliability, and investigate the production issues that come with processing large volumes of changing social data. A typical week could include adding an API endpoint for a customer workflow, fixing failed data jobs, improving search latency, and building internal tools that help the team understand API usage. WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON Backend services that collect and normalize short-form video, account, and engagement data Virlo's public API, including endpoints, authentication, usage limits, error handling, and documentation Search and filtering across videos, creators, accounts, keywords, and performance metrics Account tracking, outlier detection, exports, and alerting workflows Background jobs, queues, retries, and monitoring for long-running data processes Internal tools for reviewing API activity, customer usage, and data-quality issues Integrations that let customers use Virlo data inside their existing products and workflows Performance issues involving query speed, data freshness, failed jobs, and high-volume requests WHAT YOU'LL DO Design, build, test, and maintain backend services and APIs Own features from technical planning through production release Review requirements with product and customer-facing team members Investigate bugs reported by customers and internal users Write tests for new functionality and recurring failure cases Review code and document important technical decisions Improve monitoring so the team can find problems before customers report them Speak with selected API customers to understand technical requirements Help decide when an existing system should be repaired, replaced, or left alone WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR: 3 or more years of professional backend or full-stack engineering experience Experience building production web applications or developer-facing APIs Strong experience in at least one backend language, such as Python, TypeScript, Go, or Java Experience designing REST APIs and working with authentication, pagination, rate limits, and webhooks Experience with relational databases and writing efficient queries Experience with background jobs, queues, scheduled tasks, or event-driven systems Familiarity with automated testing, Git, code review, and CI/CD Experience deploying and maintaining applications on AWS, GCP, or Azure Clear written communication and comfort working without several layers of management RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Web scraping, browser automation, or working with unofficial and third-party data sources Search systems or large datasets Social media APIs and frequently changing external platforms Data pipelines, ETL jobs, or asynchronous processing SaaS products with usage-based billing Developer tools, API products, analytics products, or marketing software Small startup teams where engineers speak directly with customers WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE During your first 90 days, you should be able to: Ship changes to an existing backend service Understand how data moves from collection through the product and API Resolve production bugs without needing step-by-step direction Improve one recurring reliability or performance issue Take ownership of a defined product or API workflow