Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

*We are open to fully remote work for this position, and you can be based out of any of the 16 states in which Hearst Magazines does business: NY, PA, TX, FL, MI, CA, TN, VA, AL, CO, IL, MA, MD, NC, NJ, OH, SC.

Hearst's Media Platforms division is Hearst's internal product, technology and design group, which spans both CDS Global and Hearst Magazines. Media Platforms is looking for a Software Engineer to build performant, mobile first web applications using a modern JavaScript stack. You will be working on the app that is the first point of contact for the 150 million people that we reach through our iconic and diverse brands mentioned above. And that's just the United States, our global reach is even larger. At Media Platforms, our technology, tools, services and solutions touch hundreds of millions of lives by driving experiences, and growing businesses. Our team of engineers, product managers, data scientists and designers build a suite of products to lead the way in shaping and managing the future of publishing. Go to Magazines www. www.mediaplatforms.hearst.com to learn more about our teams, and the brands that we serve.

You'll join a diverse, supportive community of engineers who are creating a modern content technology stack - built from the ground up - to give our clients and users, tools that enable them to tell amazing stories and run their businesses more effectively. We're using modern web technologies to do this, like Python, JavaScript, Node.js, GraphQL, and React. We're building an open, service-oriented platform driven by APIs, and believe in crafting simple, elegant solutions to complex technological and product problems. Our platform is built on AWS and Kubernetes with deployments automated through Slack bots.

What You'll Do
• Build the next generation of our world class publishing platform using industry leading providers and technologies serving Hearst's many acclaimed brands.
• Participate in product and software design discussions, working directly with other engineers, product and design teams, DevOps, and other stakeholders.
• Use well-reasoned, appropriate design patterns and best practices.

Who You Are
• You take initiative to constantly improve individually and as a part of a team.
• You have 5+ years of experience building web applications and services.
• You have the ability to take a feature to full completion – from inception through design, implementation, delivery, and post-release in an iterative agile environment.
• You have 3+ experience with client and server-side programming in React, Node.js, Python, and other similar languages. You're not tied to a specific language or technology and you're able to quickly adapt and learn new skills.
• Experience using Docker / Docker Compose for local development.
• Cloud development – Kubernetes on Amazon AWS or Google Cloud.
• You have experience designing database schemas, querying for data, and optimizing existing queries in PostgreSQL.
• You write tests to improve the quality, modularity, and maintainability of your code.
• You have an understanding of, and experience with, concurrency and asynchronous programming and relational and non-relational databases and data models.
• You have a CS degree or equivalent real-world experience and knowledge of CS fundamentals.
• You have strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
• You're an effective communicator.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3y6z9-18-219-236-199-42 in your application.