Software Developer - Amperwave - Adtech

Job Description

Overview

Software Developer - AmperWave - AdTech

Known for our outstanding voices across the US, Audacy is the premier provider of local, spoken word, and premium audio content. For technical talent, we have created a team that leverages new toolsets, develops collaboratively with business stakeholders, and is pushing the boundaries of audio every day.

We are looking for an innovative, passionate and results driven Software Developer to join our rapidly growing engineering team to help us build the future of radio and audio together.

You listen to Audacy content all of the time…and may not know how much more incredible audio content we offer including: podcasts, news & sports talk radio, and amazing music stations. As a leader in all-things-audio, Audacy is transforming the listening experience through innovation and interactivity–and you may be just the person to join our team to help us do this!

What it's like to work on this team:

The ideal candidate is passionate about building effective, high-quality, innovative, scalable products and services. We believe in self-empowered teams that can take a product from concept to delivery. You'll get the chance to own and contribute to multiple core functionalities and capabilities and be a driving force behind our evolution as a digital streaming company.

We are developers and we understand what developers need. We'll provide you with a work environment where collaboration is encouraged but you're not bombarded with superfluous interruptions. We have highly encouraged quiet times each afternoon so that everyone can focus without worrying they're missing anything. We work in modern agile feature teams that self-organize and work together to build great software. You'll have the opportunity to contribute new ideas, learn new technologies, and build new features.
Our friendly code reviews make us all better and you get to be a part of that by both reviewing code and having yours reviewed. We have fun doing what we do, and you will too.

This opportunity is available in our Denver, Philadelphia or New York locations; we are also open to considering remote work in any of our local markets.

Responsibilities

Daily Experiences:
• Translate complex requirements to simple code
• Develop APIs and streaming systems powering our mobile, web and OTT apps, as well as APIs consumed by third-party developers
• Write fast, efficient code with an eye for keeping response time low
• Help to provide an accurate timeline and scoping estimations on engineering projects
• Mentor junior developers, including conducting code reviews and assisting in architecture planning
• Keep up on cutting edge software trends and cloud-based solutions
• Follow engineering best practices and participate in code reviews
• Participate in project scoping, resource planning, and timeline estimation
• Work with product managers to understand feature requirement, and drive their detailed definition
• Follow agile/continuous integration engineering best practices
• Additional duties as needed

Qualifications

Required Traits:
• Are a polyglot that isn't afraid to learn new technologies
• Have built production systems that scaled
• Aren't afraid to own greenfield or brownfield projects
• Ability to communicate well with technical staff

Desired Traits:
• Immediately get the debugger working when introduced to a new project
• Are comfortable with dynamically typed interpreted languages
• Are comfortable with statically typed compiled languages
• Have built something that failed and learned from it
• Know SOLID rules well enough to know when to break them
• Have enough experience with RDBMS to know that indexes are important
• Have enough experience with NoSQL databases to know that keys are important
• Use unit tests because they make code better and development faster
• Think swagger UI is an amazing tool and every API should use it
• Have built systems that deploy on AWS and/or GCP
• Use docker to encapsulate and isolate services whenever possible

Additional Information

Pay Transparency:

The anticipated starting salary range for individuals expressing interest in this position is $90,000 - $110,0000. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and location of the applicant, as well as internal and external equity.

Audacy offers full time employees with a comprehensive benefits package to include: health care coordinator, medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, disability, life insurance, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, paid time off (sick, vacation, personal, parental, volunteer), 401(k) retirement plan, discounted employee stock purchase, student loan payment assistance program, legal assistance, life assistance program, identity theft protection, discounted home and auto insurance, and pet insurance.

Responsibilities:

Daily Experiences:
- Translate complex requirements to simple code
- Develop APIs and streaming systems powering our mobile, web and OTT apps, as well as APIs consumed by third-party developers
- Write fast, efficient code with an eye for keeping response time low
- Help to provide an accurate timeline and scoping estimations on engineering projects
- Mentor junior developers, including conducting code reviews and assisting in architecture planning
- Keep up on cutting edge software trends and cloud-based solutions
- Follow engineering best practices and participate in code reviews
- Participate in project scoping, resource planning, and timeline estimation
- Work with product managers to understand feature requirement, and drive their detailed definition
- Follow agile/continuous integration engineering best practices
- Additional duties as needed

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rb2o0e-3-142-232-74-42 in your application.