Sr Software Engineer - Node JS

Job Description

THE DIVISION'S STORY
Were you the first kid on your block to get a PlayStation? Did you foresee the day when movies could be filmed on a phone and TV shows could be viewed on a wristwatch? The Digital team is made up of just such visionaries and early adaptors. We dream up new ideas for gaming, apps, and SVOD initiatives and generate engaging online content for our owned and operated websites. But if all that tech talk makes you glaze over, there's always 45th & Dean, our in-house digital content storytelling hub. It's a collective of talented writers, editors, motion graphics artists and producers who create content across all social media platforms as well as support our Ad Sales and Distribution teams. Our Editorial function, shared with Marketing, brings the voice, taste, and energy that brings our brands to life beyond linear.

• Primarily remote work - may require intermittent onsite work out of mid-town Manhattan office. Monday thru Friday
• 18 month employment length maximum - pending performance and workload needs - with potential for conversion to staff.
• Responsible for building and maintaining backend applications and APIs in support of frontend applications that are available on major media consumption platforms and serve millions of consumers
• Active participant in a scrum team, working closely with scrum master and program manager as well as consumers like applications development teams
• Work with content metadata and media services teams to ensure proper delivery of content to consumer applications
• Enhance and re-architect GraphQL and REST API servers
• Evaluate new technologies and workflow changes, finding opportunities to improve performance, ease-of-use or efficiency.
• Identify and communicate technical issues and discrepancies to management and colleagues.
• Write technical documentation for all architecture and applications.
• Implement and integrate third-party libraries and APIs

YOUR STORY:
• 5+ years of relevant experience with Node.js & JavaScript (Typescript is a plus)
• Excellent understanding of programming design patterns with experience implementing micro-services
• Strong understanding of GraphQL and RESTful API
• Experience with Unit Testing and Load Testing is a big plus
• Experience with serverless systems like AWS lambda, API gateway is a big plus
• Experience with API Automation is a plus
• Experience with Docker and containers. Container orchestration and Distributed Systems is a plus
• Strong understanding of CI/CD systems
• Knowledge of AWS and/or other public clouds is a big plus
• Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming software is a plus
• Knowledge of frontend frameworks like React is a plus
• A bachelor's degree in related discipline is preferred
• Experience practicing contemporary software development methodologies: Agile, Scrum, XP, etc. with strong focus on coding best practices, application security, performance & maintainability.

Please note project assignment associates are engaged to provide service to A+E Networks on a temporary basis in connection with a specific project. Project assignment associates are hired and employed through a third-party vendor with a duration/tenure of no longer than eighteen (18) months.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rv7e3w-3-131-110-169-42 in your application.