Senior Software Engineer-Back End / Video Services

Job Description

Why Hearst Magazines?

Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses.
Our major interests include hundreds of magazine editions around the world, 33 television stations, numerous newspapers, and ownership in networks like A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime, and ESPN – and that's just in media!
Our interests also include global financial services leader Fitch Group, transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, and a group of medical information and services businesses.

Hearst Magazines is one of the largest publishers in the world, with more than 25 brands, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics, and O the Oprah Magazine. We reach more than 150 million people every month in the United States alone.

We engage our audience across all mediums and channels - print, digital, video and social – with sophisticated content creation, distribution and data capabilities. We create, package and sell products with cutting-edge technology and proprietary platforms. Together, we are reinventing publishing for the 21st century.

Part of this vision involves staying ahead of the curve with our far reaching content and media search system. This role will focus on building out the next generation of this functionality using Python and Elasticsearch with a highly supportive and cross functional team.
*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, TX, FL, MI, CA, TN, VA, AL, CO, IL, MA, MD, NC, NJ, OH, SC.

What You'll Do:
• Work on the next generation of our world class content and media search system
• Work with our high volume content and video distribution systems to power recommendation engines
• 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 6+ 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 server-side programming in 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.
• 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.
• Experience using Docker / Docker Compose for local development deployed to the cloud (e.g. AWS/GCP)
• You have strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
• You're an effective communicator.

Bonus Points! Experience with:
• Elasticsearch querying and indexing
• Cloud development - Amazon AWS and Google Cloud
• Go

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gke7ok-3-145-74-54-42 in your application.