Talent marketplace platform for creative production casting and crew staffing
Backstage operates a two-sided marketplace connecting creators with talent across 50,000+ projects annually in film, TV, commercials, and theater. The tech stack—Redshift, dbt, Hightouch, PostgreSQL, React—combined with active projects around reverse ETL, attribution logic, and UGC product development signals a shift toward data-driven creator acquisition and funnel optimization. Hiring velocity is accelerating with senior engineering focus, reflecting infrastructure maturity priorities alongside new product surfaces.
Backstage matches creative professionals with production projects across film, television, commercials, branded content, theater, and experiential marketing. The platform staff over 50,000 creative projects annually and operates across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, continental Europe, and Latin America. The business connects creators seeking talent with performers, actors, crew, and musicians. Recent project focus includes UGC product development, payments infrastructure, and performance optimization—suggesting expansion beyond traditional casting into creator-economy verticals.
Data warehousing on Redshift with dbt transformations; Hightouch for reverse ETL; PostgreSQL and MySQL for transactional databases; React and TypeScript for frontend; Django and Python for backend services; Elasticsearch for search; Amplitude for analytics; Looker for BI.
ETL pipeline optimization and reverse ETL workflows; UGC product development and feature shipping for short-form video; customer attribution and funnel performance via systematic A/B testing; payments infrastructure; improving creator marketplace experience and ROAS.
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