Job Description
About Complex Networks
Complex Networks, a subsidiary of BuzzFeed Inc., champions the people, brands, and new trends you need to know now, will obsess over next, and we build consumer universes around them. From pop culture and style (Complex), food entertainment (First We Feast), music discovery (Pigeons & Planes), sneaker news (Sole Collector) to our festival of cultural convergence (ComplexCon) - we're what a modern entertainment company looks like and what others have followed since 2002.
The Role
Complex Networks is currently seeking an experienced Senior Back-End Developer to join its Web Operations team. This Back-End Developer will be responsible for the ideation, creation, and maintenance of server-side solutions and products, as well as provide support for other departments such as Business Intelligence, among others.
Our ideal candidate is a backend developer with good communication skills, a sense of ownership, and quality control. The candidate will work with internal and external teams to create elegant server-side data solutions for our business, publisher, and client needs.
You Will:
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write clean code to develop functional web applications
• Troubleshoot and debug applications, as well as optimize performance
• Collaborate with developers and system administrators to identify new features
• Design and implement effective database solutions and models to store and retrieve company data.
• Oversee the migration of data from legacy systems to new solutions.
• Monitor system performance by performing regular tests, troubleshooting, and integrating new features.
• Offer support by responding to system problems in a timely manner.
• Recommend solutions to improve new and existing database systems.
• Follow emerging technologies to improve legacy applications
You Have:
• 3+ years of proven work experience as a Back-End developer
• Hands-on experience with Java, Python, PHP.
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB (NoSQL).
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and time management skills
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• BS degree in Computer Science or relevant field
Nice to have:
• Graph Database Knowledge (OrientDB, Neo4J, AWS Neptune)
• ELK-stack experience (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• Knowledge or experience with Search engines (Apache Solr, Apache Lucene)
• Familiarity with front-end languages (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, and CSS)
Complex Networks is a subsidiary of BuzzFeed Inc.,
At BuzzFeed, we want all employees to feel safe and comfortable when they engage in any in-person meetings, when visiting the office, or when working from an offsite production or meeting location. As part of this commitment to health and safety, BuzzFeed requires COVID-19 vaccines for current US employees, including all newly hired employees. Requests for accommodation per applicable law for health and/or religious reasons will be considered. Union employees are subject to what is outlined in their applicable collective bargaining agreement.
This position may require you to be in the office or be in close proximity to other employees once our offices fully reopen in 2022.
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4ok17-34-204-196-206-42 in your application.