Staff Backend Engineer, Integrations at vibe in New York

Job description

• Application
• Streaming TV is no longer just a brand awareness channel. It’s becoming a core part of the performance marketing mix, alongside search and social. Vibe.co is building the platform that makes TV work like the rest of the acquisition stack: targeted, measurable, and optimized for results.
• Vibe.co is an Audience First Streaming TV Advertising platform that gives marketers the tools to reach the right audiences, optimize campaigns in real time, and understand what’s actually driving business outcomes. With hyper-targeted segmentation, AI-powered recommendations, real-time optimization, and incrementality measurement, Vibe brings the precision and accountability of digital advertising to the biggest screen in the house.
• Today, more than 12,000 brands use Vibe.co to reach 120 million+ households. And in August 2026, Vibe.co became a Walmart company, opening up a new chapter for the business and the industry. With Walmart’s first-party data and purchase signals now part of the Vibe platform, advertisers can connect TV advertising to real-world transactions and measure the impact of CTV with a level of precision previously associated with platforms like Google and Meta.
• This is a unique moment to join Vibe. With Walmart’s scale, data, and reach behind us, we’re building the next generation of TV advertising and creating a more measurable, performance-driven future for the channel.
• You'll join the Integrations team, the connective tissue of Vibe's platform, reporting to the Engineering Manager. The team owns everything flowing in and out of Vibe: measurement and attribution integrations, audience connections from CRMs and CDPs, and reporting pipelines.
• This role exists because we're building a first-class Developer Platform: opening Vibe's full capabilities as a public API so external partners can build on top of us. Criteo is the first partner live on it.
• You'll be one of the most senior engineers on Integrations, setting technical direction for a team that's still small enough for one person's decisions to shape it
• You'll own the foundational architecture for a platform external partners are already building against
• AI-augmented development is the expectation here, not the experiment

Responsibilities

• Build and ship integrations
• Design and implement production-grade integrations with external platforms: CRMs, CDPs, measurement vendors, data partners
• Own integration projects end to end, from scoping through production, with full accountability for outcomes
• Work directly with external partners to define, validate, and evolve data contracts
• Developer Platform
• Drive the architecture of Vibe's public API: account, advertiser, and campaign management endpoints built to scale
• Build the documentation, monitoring, and tooling that makes the developer experience genuinely good
• Contribute to the MCP gateway and authentication layers that expose Vibe's capabilities externally
• Reliability and scale
• Find the weak points in existing pipelines and lead the rebuild
• Set the standard for code quality on the team: your reviews move the bar, not just the diff
• Use AI tooling to accelerate your own output and raise the team's
• Technical leadership
• Set engineering norms and technical direction as the Integrations team grows
• Weigh in on architecture decisions across the team, not just your own projects
• Partner with the Engineering Manager on technical direction and hiring calibration

Requirements

• 8+ years building production backend systems: APIs, data pipelines, distributed services at scale
• Strong TypeScript backend experience
• Direct ownership of a major project, start to finish, not just a contributor role on someone else's
• AWS and Terraform experience, with real architectural decision-making, not just implementation
• A high-ownership background: startup, scale-up, or anywhere you couldn't hand the hard problems to someone else
• Third-party integrations experience: ETL, webhooks, REST/GraphQL APIs
• Python/C++/Rust, alongside your TS work
• Experience designing or contributing to developer-facing platforms or public APIs
• Startup experience (~300 people or fewer), current or past. Doesn't need to be your most recent role

Skills

Required

• Strong TypeScript backend experience
• AWS and Terraform experience
• AI tooling usage
• High ownership and accountability

Preferred

• Python/C++/Rust
• Startup experience

Benefits

• For candidates in New York, NY, the pay range for this role is $195,000–$265,000.
• At Vibe, we want you to build something, own something, and grow fast. Here's how we back that up:
• Variable pay based on objectives you hit. No arbitrary targets.
• Hybrid flexibility. We're in NYC's Flatiron District and our team is in 3x a week.
• Full health coverage. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with matching. We invest in your future, not just your output.
• Unlimited PTO. Take the time you need. We measure results, not hours.
• Parental leave. Paid leave for all parents.
• Annual offsite. The whole team, once a year, somewhere worth the trip.