Software Engineer

Job Description

Overview

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.

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!

The CCS team (Clients & Client Services) at Audacy powers all frontend experiences for our listeners. Keyword ''experiences''. Everything we do in our group relates to our mission to deliver a world-class audio experience, which includes music, podcasts, sports, news, and so much more!
Our team is growing and looking for the right engineers to join us! We work together everyday to do things that matter, leave things better than when we started, and always keep our listener's experience in mind. You will have the opportunity to use your frontend expertise to maintain existing mobile, web, smart speaker, and connected device apps along with helping create the next generation of these experiences. Our globally-dispersed team has an inclusive culture with a commitment to work life balance.

The Technology Team at Audacy is an organization that has leaned-in to hybrid and remote work, having leaders and team members across the country. Our technical centers of excellence are in some of the best cities to live in (Denver and Philadelphia) and we pride ourselves in building amazing products, participating in local service with Audacy, and keeping our culture at the heart of our employee experience.

At Audacy, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to new ideas, learn new technologies and design new features. We have fun doing what we do, and you will too.

If you love audio and building incredible software, then we are the place for you!

Responsibilities

What You'll Do:
• Use your experience in React, React Native, Typescript, and Javascript development to make world-class mobile, web, smart speaker, and connected device audio experiences.
• Help maintain and develop Client Services – a CCS package for our apps that contains our core audio streaming business logic.
• Partner with all teams and create clear lines of communication.
• Lead architecture and development decisions for our features.
• Mentor other team members and oversee all aspects of development.
• Participate in tech spikes and feasibility studies to help flesh out new ideas and unknowns.
• Define testing requirements, and authoring unit and behavioral cases plus working alongside QA to ensure quality.
• Help maintain our code signing and CI/CD pipeline.
• Work with Jira, our bug tracking and project management software.
• Contribute using your awesome verbal and written communication skills.
• Acquire new skills, broaden existing skills, and contribute to others through knowledge sharing and retrospectives – we are better together!

Qualifications

More About You:

Required & Preferred:
• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong engineering fundamentals including data structures, OOP, time complexity analysis, and code refactoring/reusability.
• 2+ years acting as a lead software engineer mentoring and training newer team members.
• 2+ years experience in agile software development.
• Experience with modern front-end technologies: React, React Native, Typescript, and Javascript.
• Experience consuming RESTful APIs.
• Ability to take design mockups and requirements and create functional components.
• Experience with Git source control.
• Experience with native iOS and/or Android development is a plus.
• Prior experience in unit testing and/or test-driven development is a plus.
• Experience with various store submission processes is a plus.
• Experience with app code signing is a plus.
• Experience with audio streaming standards such as HLS is a plus.
• Understanding of in-app advertising & analytics is a plus.

Additional Information

Pay Transparency:

The anticipated starting salary range for individuals expressing interest in this position is $110,000-$135,000. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and location of the applicant, as well as internal and external equity. This position can be located remotely or at one of Audacy's
offices in Denver, New York City, Philadelphia,
or Chicago.

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. About Us

Audacy, Inc. (NYSE: AUD; OTC: AUDA) is a leading multi-platform audio content and entertainment company with the country's best collection of local music, news and sports brands, a premium podcast creator, major event producer, and digital innovator. Audacy engages 200 million consumers each month, bringing people together around content that matters to them. Learn more at www.audacyinc.com, Facebook (Audacy Corp), X (@AudacyCorp), LinkedIn (@Audacy-Inc), Instagram (@lifeataudacy) and Threads (@Audacy_Corp).

Responsibilities:

What You'll Do:
- Use your experience in React, React Native, Typescript, and Javascript development to make world-class mobile, web, smart speaker, and connected device audio experiences.
- Help maintain and develop Client Services – a CCS package for our apps that contains our core audio streaming business logic.
- Partner with all teams and create clear lines of communication.
- Lead architecture and development decisions for our features.
- Mentor other team members and oversee all aspects of development.
- Participate in tech spikes and feasibility studies to help flesh out new ideas and unknowns.
- Define testing requirements, and authoring unit and behavioral cases plus working alongside QA to ensure quality.
- Help maintain our code signing and CI/CD pipeline.
- Work with Jira, our bug tracking and project management software.
- Contribute using your awesome verbal and written communication skills.
- Acquire new skills, broaden existing skills, and contribute to others through knowledge sharing and retrospectives – we are better together!

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