Sr Software Engineer

Job Description

DESCRIPTION:

Role Details:

Do you have a passion for Sports? Do you love to code? If you answered yes, then CBS Sports may be looking for you! CBSSports.com is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer for our CBSSports.com engineering team. To be successful at this job, you need to bring a winning attitude and mad coding skills.

Your Day-to-Day:
• Develop new business-led features with an emphasis on performance and user experience
• Write PHP code to extend and enhance the CBSSports.com site
• Write JavaScript code to extend and enhance the CBSSports.com site's live scoring applications
• Build interactive UX using html and css based on designs provided by design team
• Deploy periodic site updates to QA, stage, and production environments
• Provide engineering support to stakeholders, ensuring a high level of application availability and stability

Key Projects:
• Build the next generation of CBSSports.com interactive products and experiences
• Enhance existing applications for CBSSports.com powering Live Scoring components
• Build a set of tools and APIs to support various CBSSports.com production needs
• Adapt and optimize current systems for deployment on cloud-based infrastructure
• PHP and Symfony framework upgrades
• Refactor various parts of the site to be more efficient and build sharable components

QUALIFICATIONS:

What you bring to the team:

You have -
• Minimum 5 years of PHP development experience and familiarity with Symfony framework, composer package management and Twig templating engine.
• Minimum of 2 years of core JavaScript experience, 1 year of React.js experience
• Minimum of 2 years of experience building UI/UX from the ground up based on designs provided
• Ability to design and debug complex systems.
• Familiarity with HTML5 WebSockets
• Proven experience using and writing content-driven REST APIs
• You possess strong initiative and the ability for creative thinking with product development staff plus the ability to work in a collaborative, innovative, flexible and team-oriented environment
• You have excellent understanding of Object Oriented Programming and Design
• Worked with agile processes
• Familiarity with using version control systems. (Git)
• Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent experience

You might also have -
• You love sports, fantasy sports and/or sports gaming
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d23vb6-3-138-101-95-42 in your application.