About Atmosphere TV
Atmosphere is the leading streaming TV platform built specifically for businesses. Unlike ad networks or signage companies, Atmosphere is the only true TV company whose first priority is to entertain television audiences outside of the home. Our content is designed to be fun, engaging, and worth watching, transforming waiting rooms, gyms, bars, and restaurants into better experiences for customers and better businesses for owners.
We are the first and only company to think about both the business owner and their customers when creating TV content. With 60,000+ venues and a global audience of over 150 million monthly viewers, Atmosphere is redefining what TV means outside the living room.
About the role
We’re looking for a Product Software Engineer to build the technology behind Atmosphere’s TV network: the TV and mobile applications, backend services, video delivery, advertising, and customer-facing tools that run in 60,000+ venues.
In this role you will decide what to build, design systems that hold up in real use, and take responsibility for how they perform in production. AI agents carry out much of the hands-on implementation work on our team; you direct that work and are accountable for the result.
This role is onsite in our Austin, TX office.
What you'll do
- Take features from ideas through implementation, testing, release, and production operation, directing AI agents through the hands-on work and staying accountable for the outcome.
- Take a customer or business problem, decide what is worth building, and deliver the simplest solution that solves it, often without a detailed specification.
- Build across the stack as each problem requires: TV and mobile clients, backend services and APIs, and web interfaces.
- Make system design decisions, including how data is stored, where to cache, how services communicate, and how the system behaves when a component fails.
- Review AI-generated code and your teammates’ changes for correctness, security, and maintainability before they ship.
- Monitor the services you ship, respond to production issues, and fix root causes rather than symptoms.
- Work with product, design, and business stakeholders to understand problems and confirm that what you shipped solved them.
- Improve how the team works with AI, from shared prompts to automated code review.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing software products.
- AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar) as your default way of building, with the ability to show how you direct them and verify their output is correct.
- Strong product sense: you ask why before how, and you can identify which part of a feature matters most.
- Solid system design fundamentals, including the building blocks of a cloud system (storage, databases, load balancers, containers, services, APIs, caching) and when each is appropriate.
- Working knowledge of security fundamentals (authentication and authorization, secrets management, input validation, protection of customer data), applied by default.
- Self-directed: you identify the next most valuable piece of work without waiting for a ticket.
- Comfortable working across the stack and learning a language or part of the system you have not used before.
Nice to Haves:
- Experience building full-stack apps and API services with TypeScript/NestJS, PHP/Laravel, or similar frameworks.
- Experience building services in Node.js, Go, or Rust.
- Familiarity with video technologies: codecs (H.264, H.265, AV1), streaming protocols (HLS, DASH), cloud video platforms (e.g., AWS Elemental), and ad insertion techniques such as SSAI and CSAI.
- Familiarity with video production and editing tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Frame.io, and iconik.
- Experience with AWS services such as S3, RDS, ECS, and Lambda.
Compensation & Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Company Equity
- Company 401(k) with employer matching
- Competitive insurance plans
- Flexible Time Off Policy
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer sponsorship now or in the future.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Research shows that women and underrepresented groups often hesitate to apply for roles unless they meet all the criteria. At Atmosphere, we’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive team where creativity, innovation, and teamwork matter most. If you're passionate about this role but your experience doesn't check every box, we still want to hear from you. You might just be the right fit for this or another role on our team.
