Senior Software Development Engineer
UTA Ventures is the venture division of United Talent Agency.
About UTA Ventures
UTA Ventures seeks out, builds, and accelerates innovative businesses that change how people live, work, and play. It operates at the intersection of entertainment, commerce, and technology, partnering with talent to build companies, extend brand platforms, and expand into new categories. The division also invests in growing startups, including businesses in the creator economy, frontier technology, and the future of entertainment.
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About the Role
Build scalable, high-performance services for deal execution, invoicing, payment distribution, and financial reporting. The role includes backend architecture, external platform integrations, financial logic, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and auditable, fault-tolerant systems.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience focused on backend or full-stack development
- Production experience with a TypeScript-native ORM
- Experience owning schema migrations, relations, and query optimization
- Deep production experience with Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL
- Hands-on expertise with AWS EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, and IAM
- Familiarity with event-driven systems, API integrations, and microservice patterns
- Understanding of data modeling, transaction workflows, and secure service architecture
- Financial systems experience
- Experience with complex domain logic
- Familiarity with Salesforce, NetSuite, Concur, or related platforms
- Serverless architecture and FaaS experience
- Familiarity with Anthropic Claude API and Cursor
Responsibilities
- Design and implement revenue, payment, and invoicing services
- Build APIs and full-stack features using Node.js, Next.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL
- Manage schemas and queries using Drizzle or Prisma
- Own integrations with Salesforce, NetSuite, banks, and payment processors
- Implement contingent payments, commission calculations, and milestone-based billing
- Integrate Claude and use Cursor to accelerate development
- Build and deploy AWS infrastructure
- Implement CI/CD workflows and monitoring
- Ensure systems are fault-tolerant, scalable, auditable, and instrumented
- Translate financial and contractual rules into reusable service logic
- Drive quality, automation, and performance
Benefits
- The opportunity to work at a leading global entertainment company
- Access to tools, leadership, and resources to create and drive a center of excellence
- The opportunity to do the best work of your career
- Inclusive and diverse company culture
- Competitive programs to support your well-being
- Collaborative environment with room to grow