Software Jobs in Austin, TX

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 55,000+ 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 currently looking for a motivated Software Engineer to join our engineering team focused on our cutting edge out-of-home content delivery technology. From content encoding and custom hardware development to advertising demand acquisition and customer interfaces – we build the technology stack that streams content to 65k+ businesses across the planet to over 150 million monthly viewers. If you’re the right candidate, you typically seek out challenges and are motivated to solve customer-centric problems with novel technology solutions. It's important that this person is able to efficiently work with the team to ensure we have high implementation quality, strong engineering culture, and a quality mindset. The individual should bring a passion for building fantastic solutions and be willing to play a variety of roles as emergent demands drive the next opportunities for the team.

This position will report to the Engineering Lead, and is on-site in Austin, TX! Availability to be in-office 4-5 days a week is required.

What you'll do

• Treat AI as a core part of how you ship.
• Be motivated, naturally curious, and enjoy solving new problems alongside other engineers.
• Design and implement features across our technology stack (TV and mobile clients, backends/APIs, web interfaces, etc.)
• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other teams to deliver reliable software solutions to business problems
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and participate in code reviews
• Collaborate with other engineers and figure out how to make us better/faster/stronger
• Design and implement features with a full-stack perspective, understanding the dependencies and interactions between different parts of the system.

Qualifications

• Bias towards simplicity
• Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of experience building customer-facing software products
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong computer science fundamentals including system design, data structures, and algorithms
• Experience with full-stack development and a deep understanding of how different components of a system interact
• Demonstrated daily use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar)

Nice to Haves:

• Experience building backend applications using TypeScript/NestJS, PHP/Laravel or similar frameworks
• Experience developing native applications for TV (tvOS / Android TV) and/or mobile (iOS / Android) platforms using Kotlin, Java, or Swift
• Familiar with key video technologies: codecs (H.264, H.265, AV1), streaming protocols (HLS, DASH), cloud-based video platforms (e.g., AWS Elemental), and ad insertion techniques like SSAI/CSAI
• Experienced in cloud-native services, especially AWS ECS Fargate and Lambda
• Experience with modern frontend technologies (Vue3, Tailwind)

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.

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