Principal Software Engineer - Backend Architect

TelevisaUnivision is the leading Spanish-language media company in the world! We’re investing in our content, our people, and our platforms across digital, streaming, social, audio, linear, and live events.

As we continue to grow our global streaming platform, ViX, our technology teams are focused on building scalable, reliable, and secure experiences for millions of users across devices and markets.

The ViX Engineering team is seeking a Software Engineer, Backend – Lead/Architect to provide senior technical leadership across the backend platforms and services that power our streaming ecosystem. This role will lead the architecture, design, development, and evolution of highly scalable backend systems supporting APIs, content and metadata, identity and entitlements, subscriptions, payments, search, personalization, and other core platform capabilities. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role that will partner closely with Engineering, Product, Data, Cloud/Infrastructure, DevOps, and Quality Engineering.

YOUR DAY-DAY: (Responsibilities)

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of scalable backend services, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems supporting ViX.
• Define technical direction and architecture with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Remain hands‑on in software development, including solution design, development of critical components, code reviews, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Lead complex engineering initiatives from architecture and design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing operation.
• Design backend systems capable of supporting high-volume consumer traffic across multiple products, devices, and markets.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to translate product roadmaps and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Collaborate with Cloud/Infrastructure and DevOps teams on cloud-native deployment, scalability, resilience, monitoring, and operational efficiency.
• Partner across Data, Analytics, Personalization, Payments, Content, Identity, and other technology teams to support shared platform capabilities.
• Establish and promote engineering standards and best practices for architecture, API design, code quality, testing, observability, performance, and security.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, scalability concerns, and opportunities to modernize systems and reduce technical debt.
• Lead architecture and technical design reviews and influence major engineering decisions across teams.
• Mentor engineers through technical guidance, code and design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Support production reliability, including incident investigation, root‑cause analysis, and long‑term remediation.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and architectural approaches that improve scalability, reliability, developer productivity, or customer experience.

YOU HAVE: (Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience)

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and developing large-scale backend systems.
• Experience operating at a Lead, Staff, Principal, Architect, or comparable senior technical level.
• Deep expertise in backend architecture, distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and scalable system design.
• Strong hands‑on software development experience using modern backend programming languages and frameworks.
• Experience designing and operating high-volume, highly available production systems.
• Strong experience with RESTful APIs, service integrations, API architecture, performance, and security.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, data modeling, caching, and large-scale data access patterns.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and cloud‑native architecture, preferably AWS, GCP, or comparable environments.
• Experience with containers, orchestration, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, logging, and observability.
• Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, security, and operational reliability.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives involving multiple engineering teams and interconnected systems.
• Experience establishing architectural standards and influencing technical direction without requiring direct people‑management authority.
• Strong communication and problem‑solving skills with the ability to explain technical concepts and tradeoffs to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience partnering with Product Management to translate product and business requirements into technical solutions.
• Experience within streaming, media, entertainment, subscription services, e‑commerce, or another large‑scale consumer digital environment strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Master’s degree preferred but not required.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

Must be willing to work in the U.S. Employment and education will be verified. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis.

TelevisaUnivision is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to characteristics protected by law.

About TelevisaUnivision

TelevisaUnivision is the world’s leading Spanish-language media company. Powered by the largest library of owned Spanish-language content and a prolific production capability, TelevisaUnivision is the top producer of original content in Spanish across news, sports and entertainment verticals. This original content powers all of TelevisaUnivision’s platforms, which include market‑leading broadcast networks Univision, Las Estrellas, Canal 5 and UniMás, and a portfolio of 38 cable networks, which include TUDN, Galavisión, Distrito Comedia and TL Novelas. The company also operates the leading Mexican movie studio, Videocine, and owns and operates the largest Spanish‑language audio platform in the U.S. across 35 terrestrial stations and the Uforia digital platform. TelevisaUnivision is also the owner of ViX, the largest Spanish‑language streaming platform in the world.

Sobre TelevisaUnivision

TelevisaUnivision es la compañía líder de medios en español en el mundo. Impulsada por la biblioteca propia más grande de contenido en español y una alta capacidad de producción, TelevisaUnivision es el más grande productor de contenido para las verticales de noticias, deportes y entretenimiento. Este contenido original es lo que impulsa las plataformas de TelevisaUnivision, que incluyen las cadenas de transmisión líderes Univision, las estrellas, Canal 5, y UniMás, y un portafolio de 38 canales de televisión de paga, que incluyen TUDN, Galavisión, Distrito Comedia, y TL Novelas. La compañía además opera el estudio de producción cinematográfica líder en México, Videocine, y posee y administra las plataformas más grandes de audio en español en Estados Unidos en 35 estaciones y la plataforma digital Uforia. TelevisaUnivision también es propietaria de ViX, el servicio de streaming en español más grande del mundo.

For more information, please visit televisaunivision.com.