Software Engineer
Hearst Magazines
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This is a Full Time Job
Hearst
Magazines Digital Media reaches more than 100 million people around the world
every month on digital platforms connected to loved and trusted brands like
Cosmopolitan, Delish, Esquire, Elle, Runner's World, and 29 television
stations.
We are looking
for a Senior Software Engineer to join a diverse, supportive community of
engineers who are creating a modern content technology stack - built from the
ground up - to give our users, editors, and advertisers tools that enable them
to tell amazing stories. We're using modern web technologies to do this, like
Python, GraphQL, React, and Webpack. 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 a Slack bot.
Our ideal
candidate is a passionate, primarily back-end, software engineer who is eager
to learn and contribute to team success. The team you'll be working on is a
small, autonomous team responsible for the distribution of articles and videos
from our brands to partners such as Amazon, YouTube, Apple News, Google News,
Yahoo, and MSN. You'll work with several different technologies - Python,
Django, Postgres, and Redis to name a few. Our team works in an agile
environment and we value collaboration and respect, learning new skills, and a
high quality of work.
Responsibilities:
• Be part of a
development team that innovates and creates modern tools and features that will
be used across the entire Hearst content platform
• Participate in
key software design, working directly with other engineers, the product team,
devops, and the editorial team
Desired
Qualities:
• 5 years of
software engineering experience
• 2 years of
Python experience
• Takes
initiative to constantly improve individually and as a part of a team
• Experience
building software for consumer-facing web applications, preferably large-scale
and content-focused
• Ability to take
a feature or service to full completion, from working with our back-end tech
through front-end implementation
• Excited to
mentor and collaborate with less experienced engineers
• Understanding
of microservices architecture
• Experience
building RESTful APIs
• Experience with
Django
• Javascript/front-end
development experience
• Eager to learn
any other languages/frameworks that apply
• PostgreSQL
experience (or similar relational database)
• Familiarity
with database performance tuning / caching strategies
Bonus Points
for:
• Experience with
large-scale/high-traffic systems
• React or other
Javascript framework experience
• Experience with
job queueing
• Logging and
monitoring tools
• GraphQL API
integration
• Working in an
Agile development team (Scrum preferred)
• Linux
• Docker
• Amazon AWS
• A degree in
Computer Science or a related field
NA
