Software Engineer

Job Description

WHO ARE YOU?

Do you enjoy dance music? Is software engineering your craft? Then you're in luck! We are looking for a highly motivated self-starter who embodies both a passion for dance culture and developing world class software. Is this you? Read on…

THE ROLE

Insomniac Events is seeking a Software Engineer with experience managing projects and leading development teams, with front & backend WordPress experience, and is comfortable interacting with stakeholders and third party software vendors. Having the ability to develop customized strategies and adapt to each individual project is paramount to this position's success.

This role will deliver on-time, quality-driven code releases, strategize and manage multiple development projects, and provide direction on software design and the software development process. You would be responsible for writing clean, secure, reusable code while working closely with our internal team and offshore development team. This position is located in Calabasas, CA with a hybrid work from home and in office schedule. This is not a fully remote position.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Partner with Product, Design, and Marketing to build and maintain new features to achieve roadmap goals
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Partner with offshore development team to build innovative new features that operate at scale
• Support debugging production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or 7+ years of equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated fluency in PHP and Python (Bonus points for GoLang, C/C++, Dart, Solidity)
• 2+ Years Wordpress development experience
• Experience w/ AWS (S3, EC2, Route 53, Elastic Beanstalk, etc.)
• Must have web server knowledge and applied understanding (SSL certificates / DNS / email setup)
• Git workflow (branching, merging, tagging, cherry picking)
• Understanding of RESTful services and how to interact with them
• Experienced with agile software and product development
• Best practices for performance, security, and code maintenance
• Monitoring tools such as New Relic, Loggly, Librato, Cloudwatch, PIngdom, etc.
• HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript best practices
• Database design concepts and use of SQL
• UNIX internals and shell scripting
• Full range of technology layers from front-end user interfaces to back-end systems
• Software engineering practices and the software development lifecycle
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with a diverse population

WORK ENVIRONMENT
• Must be able to tolerate loud noise levels & busy environments
• May work in drastic temperature climates
• Must be willing to frequently work and travel to events during holiday, evening and weekend hours, as required, to meet deadlines and work events

Applicants for employment in the US must possess work authorization, which does not require sponsorship by Insomniac for a visa.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rnmbo3-18-226-251-68-42 in your application.