Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

CBS Sports, a year-round leader in cross-platform sports coverage, broadcasts a portfolio of events on the CBS Television Network, including THE NFL ON CBS; college football, including the SEC ON CBS; college basketball, including the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship; golf, including The Masters®, PGA Championship and PGA TOUR; soccer, including the UEFA Champions League and NWSL; and CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR.

In addition, the division includes CBS SPORTS NETWORK, the 24-hour cable home of CBS Sports which televises live sports programming throughout the year, including college football and basketball games, UEFA Champions League and Europa League action, Italy's Serie A matches, Concacaf national team competitions, as well as a full slate of original programming and studio coverage.

CBS Sports also delivers an extensive lineup of global soccer coverage on Paramount+, including every UEFA club competition match, all Serie A matches as well as Concacaf national team competitions, and produces INSIDE THE NFL for Paramount+. CBS Sports Digital's multi-platform offerings include CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports apps for mobile and connected TV devices; the 24/7 streaming sports news network CBS Sports HQ; 247Sports; MaxPreps; CBS Sports fantasy games; and SportsLine.

CBSSports.com provides premium online and mobile content to the connected sports fan, including live and on-demand video, in-depth analysis, breaking news, and scores and statistics across high school, college, and pro sports. We are a part of Paramount's portfolio of multiplatform brands, which includes best-in-class Fantasy offerings, high school sports leader MaxPreps, 247Sports, and CBS Interactive Advanced Media producing more than 130 official collegiate athletic sites.

Do you have a passion for the art and science of software engineering coupled with a love of sports? If you answered yes, then we may be looking for you!

We are looking an expert Senior Software Developer for our Content Management engineering team. Don't forget to bring a winning mentality and mad coding skills!

Your-Day-to-Day:
• Craft and develop new business-led content management features with an emphasis on performance and user experience
• Migrate existing software onto more modern frameworks without negatively impacting user workflows
• Work closely with DevOps on full-stack solutions to complex problems for scale and availability
• Develop new features and improvements to our proprietary CMS application.
• Provide engineering support to partners, ensuring a high level of application availability

Qualifications:

What you bring to the team:
• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• 4+ years of applicable work experience
• Experience using Javascript, Typescript, Sass, CSS, React and Node.js
• PHP development experience and familiarity with any MVC framework
• Proven experience using and writing REST APIs for content
• Strong ability to develop enterprise-level applications with expertise in UI/UX implementation
• Excellent understanding of Object Oriented Programming and Design
• Worked with agile processes
• Familiarity with using version control systems such as Git.
• Enthusiasm for learning new frameworks and languages
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to Have:
• Experience with cloud architecture, ideally on AWS
• Familiar with composer package management and Twig templating engine
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of Symfony Framework
• Exposure to popular proprietary or open-source CMS such as Wordpress, Drupal, Jumla, Magento
• Knowledge of SQL & popular open source RDBS and search technology such as Solr / Elasticsearch

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g62nw9-3-131-13-37-42 in your application.