Software Engineer, Streaming Platforms

Job Description

Overview

Audacy is a scaled, multi-platform audio content and entertainment company with the country's best radio broadcasting group, a leader in virtually every segment of audio, and America's #1 creator of original, premium audio delivered to 170 million listeners each month. As a senior software engineer on the AdTech team, getting those creators paid will be your primary focus.

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 highly encourage scheduled 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.

The anticipated starting salary range for Colorado-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $130,000 - $140,000 per year; this position is eligible for annual incentive compensation.

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
• Follow agile/continuous integration engineering best practices
• Additional duties as needed
Our Stack (familiarity with all not required):
• Go
• NodeJS
• PHP
• React
• MySQL
• ScyllaDB
• Docker
• Various technologies in AWS and GCP

Qualifications

About You:

Required Traits:
• Have at least 4 years experience writing code as part of a team
• Are proficient in at least one modern languages (i.e. Go or Javascript)
• 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

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

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
- Follow agile/continuous integration engineering best practices
- Additional duties as needed
Our Stack (familiarity with all not required):
- Go
- NodeJS
- PHP
- React
- MySQL
- ScyllaDB
- Docker
- Various technologies in AWS and GCP

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rez5o2-3-131-13-37-42 in your application.