About the role

Role overview

Virlo is hiring a Backend Software Engineer to build and operate the systems that collect, process, search, and deliver short-form video data. You’ll work on product features and API endpoints, improve data freshness and reliability, and troubleshoot production issues caused by large volumes of changing social data.

What you’ll work on

Backend services to collect and normalize short-form video, account, and engagement data
Virlo public API: endpoints, authentication, usage limits, error handling, and documentation
Search & filtering across videos, creators, accounts, keywords, and performance metrics
Account tracking, outlier detection, exports, and alerting workflows
Background processing: jobs, queues, retries, and monitoring
Internal tools for reviewing API activity, customer usage, and data-quality issues
Customer integrations that use Virlo data within existing products/workflows
Performance work: query speed, data freshness, failed jobs, and high-volume requests

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, and maintain backend services and APIs
Own features end-to-end (technical planning through production release)
Collaborate with product and customer-facing teams to review requirements
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 to detect issues before customers report them
Speak with selected API customers to understand technical requirements
Help decide whether to repair/replace/retain existing systems

Requirements

3+ years of professional backend or full-stack engineering experience
Experience building production web applications or developer-facing APIs
Strong backend language experience (e.g., Python, TypeScript, Go, 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/maintaining on AWS, GCP, or Azure
Clear written communication and comfort working with limited management layers

Nice-to-haves / relevant experience

Web scraping, browser automation, or working with unofficial/third-party data sources
Search systems or working with large datasets
Social media APIs / frequently changing external platforms
Data pipelines (ETL) and asynchronous processing
SaaS or developer tools with usage-based billing
Experience in small startup teams with direct customer interaction

What success looks like (first 90 days)

Ship changes to an existing backend service
Understand how data moves from collection through product/API
Resolve production bugs without step-by-step direction
Improve one recurring reliability or performance issue
Take ownership of a defined product/API workflow

About Virlo

Virlo is a short-form video data platform for marketers, agencies, and software companies. It helps customers search videos, track creators/accounts, detect outliers, export research, and access social-video data via an API, with some users also embedding Virlo data into their own products.

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