Job Description
Chartbeat Inc. is the parent company of Chartbeat, Tubular Labs, FatTail, and Lineup Systems. Together, we’re shaping the future of media strategy and revenue. Trusted by the world’s top media brands, Chartbeat, Inc. combines analytics that power smarter audience strategies with revenue solutions that simplify ad operations and accelerate monetization.
Our mission is to help customers grow valuable media brands with their content. Join our diverse group of focused, hardworking professionals who are passionate about doing work that’s challenging and fun — and who strive to maintain a healthy work/life balance.
Chartbeat’s intuitive and powerful software has long empowered media brands to use their own data to build loyal audiences across desktop, social, and mobile platforms. With easy-to-use real-time and historical analytics, in-page optimization and testing tools, and unique insights into audience engagement, Chartbeat’s products bring value to editorial, product, and business teams. Earlier this year, Chartbeat joined forces with Tubular, the leader in global social video intelligence and measurement. Tubular provides a unified view of the shifting values and interests of audiences across YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, and more. Together, we’re expanding the ecosystem of insights we provide to enterprise content creators who are developing audiences and revenue streams across channels. By joining two comprehensive network-level datasets, we’ll help our partners understand and measure a larger proportion of audience interactions and, in turn, make smarter decisions that grow reach and revenue. We now serve more than 1,000 brands globally, including influential content publishers like The New York Times, the BBC, ESPN, Gannett, Vox, BuzzFeed, Paramount, WB, Mediahuis, Hearst, McClatchy, and GQ.
The Team:
The Metadata team manages video metadata, API infrastructure, and Model Context Protocol (MCP). Our core stack of technologies include Python, Spark, Elastic (Elasticsearch), and Kafka for big data processing. For API development, we utilize Vue.js, OpenAPI Specification, GraphQL, Angular, and FastMCP.
Responsibilities:
As Software Engineer within the Metadata team, you will help us expand our ability to deliver reliable and scalable metadata systems. You will work on end‑to‑end implementation of features, improve test coverage, and contribute to our big‑data and API infrastructure.
You will primarily be contributing code within a cross-functional team, typically a few engineers, a designer, a data scientist, and a product manager. You will also participate in the engineering on call rotation to monitor and maintain the health of our production systems.
About You:
- Foundational knowledge of computer science.
- Experience in Python is required.
- Familiarity with SQL, Git, and Linux.
- Growth mindset, eagerness to learn, and good communication skills.
- Desire to eventually own and lead technical projects that may involve collaboration with other teams.
- Open to recent graduates or students in their final year who can commit to full-time work.
- A desire to learn new technologies and build great software and data models used by key people in the digital video entertainment industry.
- Interest in working on a distributed engineering team and an ability to be a self-starter.
- Willingness to participate in on-call duties.
- An ability to solve problems and communicate your technical insights effectively with stakeholders, and own projects end-to-end.
- Enthusiasm to be an active and contributing member of a high performance engineering team
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement
At Chartbeat we strive to create and continually grow as a company where all employees are able to be their authentic selves. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, and retaining employees from different backgrounds, viewpoints, and experiences. Our strength is our diversity and we are dedicated to continuously reflect upon, and evolve our efforts to maintain a diverse, equitable and inclusive ecosystem.
Equal Opportunity Employment Statement
Chartbeat is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.
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