Hybrid Senior Software Engineer, Customer Platform

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About the role

  • Senior Software Engineer responsible for user registration and management platforms at Dotdash Media. Collaborating with product and engineering teams to implement technical solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Work collaboratively with peers to build and maintain the User Registration and User Management platforms critical to Dotdash Meredith enterprise architecture
  • Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to design and implement technical and functional designs to meet business objectives
  • Build backend systems for management and security of both known users across Dotdash Meredith websites and publications, as well as inter-service enterprise integration
  • Stay abreast of the latest in cloud application security
  • Design and implement new services, APIs, and operational monitoring functions
  • Own production services, investigate and resolve issues, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies
  • Collaborate closely with other engineers, designers, and product managers to define innovative ways to improve software services and reduce costs
  • Actively participate in technical mentorship with engineers on the team by performing thorough code reviews, pairing, and architecture reviews of proposed solutions
  • Develop and drive engineering best practices, performance, and scalability
  • Share knowledge with others across the organization through documentation, training, and demos
  • Lead peers through the example of technical and professional excellence, as needed
  • Demonstrate passion for code quality and lead by example to produce high quality, performant, and secure software services and applications

Requirements

  • Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, a related field or foreign equivalent
  • 5 years of progressively responsible full-stack developer experience
  • 5 years of professional experience independently building and maintaining backend applications, RESTful APIs, and administrative UI tools across the full application lifecycle
  • 5 years of experience developing highly available services that integrate multiple interface/access patterns, support multiple consumers and components, provide high concurrency and low latency, with distributed deployment and global exposure, mindful security measures (e.g. WAF, DDOS protection, rate limiting), running in a production environment with SLAs
  • 5 years of experience developing and owning services deployed in AWS or equivalent cloud platforms leveraging CI/CD and codified infrastructure
  • 5 years of experience working in an Agile environment to translate user stories into technical tasks and provide estimations of effort
  • 4 years of experience maintaining microservices built upon serverless (e.g. AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, etc.), event-driven (e.g. Kafka, AWS SNS/SQS, etc.), and caching (e.g. Redis, Memcached, etc.) technologies
  • 2 years of experience maintaining and administering relational databases (including AWS RDS PostgreSQL) and non-relational databases (including AWS DynamoDB and AWS OpenSearch)
  • 2 years experience with Docker, AWS, and GCP
  • 2 years of experience with monitoring and logging tools including Splunk, DataDog, Kibana, and Grafana
  • Demonstrated experience working in 2+ back-end, or full-stack technology frameworks in at least two languages
  • Demonstrated experience delivering technology on schedule, in budget, and translating abstract requirements from non-technical stakeholders into actionable technical steps

Benefits

  • medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage
  • unlimited paid time off (PTO)
  • adoption or surrogate assistance
  • donation matching
  • tuition reimbursement
  • basic life insurance
  • basic accidental death & dismemberment
  • supplemental life insurance
  • supplemental accident insurance
  • commuter benefits
  • short term and long term disability
  • health savings and flexible spending accounts
  • family care benefits
  • a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program
  • 10-12 paid holidays annually
  • generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents)
  • voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance

Job title

Senior Software Engineer, Customer Platform

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$189,592 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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