Senior Software Developer

Description

The company's core work is storytelling, and this role sits in its digital commerce group, which builds customer-facing shopping products and web apps.

You will join a team that moves quickly and aims for results, and the company operates across studios, direct-to-consumer services and TV media.

The commerce group is growing fast, and the work includes building the tooling that supports that growth.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve commerce products together with the engineering and platform teams.
• Design and build complex features that make the customer experience better.
• Apply strong system engineering knowledge, including database design, application architecture, operating systems and networking, alongside your application development work.
• Define requirements for the publishing platform so editors can work more effectively, and propose features that widen reach and improve the end-user experience.
• Work with several teams on engineering projects that grow the audience.
• Create and promote better ways to gather and share insights across core engineering tools and products.
• Help plan short-term content with editorial and programming teams.
• Mentor colleagues, encourage cooperation and put good engineering workflow practices in place.
• Take ownership of the code you and your team write.
• Explain difficult technical ideas clearly.
• Review code critically as a way to learn, and refactor code and artifacts safely when needed.

Requirements

• A bachelor's or master's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering or another engineering or related field.
• 5-10 years of software development experience, with a focus on application development.
• At least 5 years of experience with Node.js, Express, Vue.js and ES6.
• Working knowledge of modern JavaScript, TypeScript and Python, along with AWS services, Postgres, Elasticsearch and Redis.
• Expert-level skill with Fastly, AWS, Serverless/SAM, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, Snowflake and Git.
• Deep experience with modern development tools and hands-on work on both client and server code, plus a solid grasp of common data structures and algorithms.
• A drive to keep growing professionally as an individual contributor.
• Past work building medium to large, mission-critical, highly available production systems that support essential business, technical or operational functions.
• Clear written and spoken communication, including explaining complex problems to non-engineers.
• Experience monitoring code health, infrastructure health and application performance.
• Experience in e-commerce, affiliate platforms or consumer media.
• Experience on Kanban or Scrum teams and with the tools used to manage them.
• Active involvement in the technology community.
• Experience interviewing candidates and in talent acquisition.
• Experience with Agile methods such as Scrum or Kanban, and support for continuous deployment and incremental delivery of business value.
• Plus: experience with non-procedural programming or functional-style concepts applied professionally.
• Plus: two years of object-oriented JavaScript experience.

Conditions

This is a hybrid role.

The position fills an existing vacancy.

The base salary range is $114,100.00 to $182,600.00 per year, and final pay depends on factors such as location, market data, internal equity, skills, experience, training, education and performance.

Candidates with a disability may request accommodations during the hiring process.

Benefits

• Base pay is one part of total compensation, which may also include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives and program-specific awards.
• Health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, and sick time and vacation.