Medior Java Developer

Job description

We are looking for a Medior Java Developer with some experience in React to join our team at XITE. You will primarily focus on backend development of our in-house Media Asset Management and curation systems, used internally by our Music Team.

About XITE

It’s our mission to share our passion for music videos with the world and invite people to experience music beyond listening: to see your music. XITE is dedicated to building the best music video experience in the world. Based in Amsterdam, XITE now reaches 100 million households across North America and Europe.

About the role and the team

At XITE, the Content Technology Team keeps our music video catalog running smoothly, from ingestion to distribution across our interactive app, FAST channels and linear TV. You'll join a small, cross-functional team of three engineers and two product team members, working closely with our music team (around 10 people) to deliver the best music video content experience in Europe and North America.

This is a role where you take pride in well-maintained systems, not high-volume daily throughput. Our pipelines handle a catalog of hundreds of thousands of music videos, but once built and stable, they largely run themselves. Your job is to keep them that way, improve them thoughtfully, and build internal tooling that makes life easier for a small, specialized music team.

Our techstack

• Backend services are written in Java using spring boot framework.

• Several databases like Postgres, Mongo.

• Infrastructure like Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch.

• Microservice based architecture hosted in Google Cloud.

• Frontend services are written in React framework.

• Fully automated CI pipelines.

• Version control using Git.

Responsibilities

Build & maintain our in-house developed Media Asset Management System

• Maintain the pipeline that processes and delivers our music video catalog, keeping it reliable, observable, and easy to maintain.

Develop curation tools for our music team

• Create the tools our music team rely on every day to manage and program content.

Enrich our catalog with smart metadata

• Design solutions that collect and improve metadata, powering our recommendation engine and playlist curation.

Contribute to technical projects end-to-end

• Share ownership from requirements and design, implement, test, and launch.

Engineer responsibly

• Build reliable internal tools and APIs used daily by a small, specialized team. Focus on maintainability, usability, and code quality, and contribute to making the platform more robust over time.

Work in a close-knit, collaborative team

• Share ownership across projects, work across teams, and help shape how and what we build. You will work closely with experienced backend developers, giving you the opportunity to learn and grow in your role.

Requirements

• 3+ to 5 years of experience with Java Spring and a solid understanding of backend development.

• Familiarity working with microservice architectures, ideally in a cloud environment such as Google Cloud Platform.

• Familiarity with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.

• Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).

• You have strong English communication skills (Dutch not required).

• You live in the Netherlands as we would like to see you at least three times per week in our office.

• Experience with modern JavaScript ecosystems (TypeScript, React) is a plus.

Working at XITE

Here at XITE we make sure you’re taken care of by providing you the opportunity to develop your career in a young, fast growing and international company. We provide a challenging work environment where you have a lot of autonomy, flexible working hours and no day will be the same for sure. All XITE’ers are different and authentic in their own way, but we all have kindness in common. Like professionalism and a flexible and an optimistic attitude. And let’s not forget; We have a passion for music and good food. That’s why we have chef prepared lunches, drinks, and rooftop BBQ's!