About Our Opportunity
We're seeking a driven and resourceful Senior Fullstack Engineer to join our Data-Driven Content team.
As a key member of the team, you'll be responsible for building services and user-facing features across our platform, with a strong focus on reliability, maintainability, scalability, testability, and user experience.
Your Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable full-stack applications and features across a modern tech stack, including Typescript, React, Go, and Postgres.
- Focus on improving our user experience, collaborating with designers to implement intuitive interfaces and finding creative ways to reduce user pain points.
- Build and enhance microservices, focusing on reliability, maintainability, testability, and scalability within our distributed systems.
- Ensure the quality of our products remains high by contributing to automated testing strategies and participating actively in code reviews.
- Collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, and other engineers within an Agile development framework.
- Contribute to engineering best practices, identifying and driving improvements in our processes, architecture, and technology stack.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a collaborative environment and sharing your expertise.
- Distill user stories or business requirements into technical requirements and robust technical designs.
- Efficiently iterate from hypothesis to MVP to scaled solutions, driving software development across profiles, rankings, tools, and data pipelines.
Your Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience with one or more general-purpose programming languages (Go, C/C++, C#, Java, Ruby, etc.).
- Experience with Typescript and React.
- Experience with one or more SQL databases.
- Strong understanding of common data structures and design patterns.
- Experience working with a microservice architecture and distributed systems.
- Proficiency in using unit testing frameworks.
- A dedication to developing clear, reliable, and maintainable code.
- Proficiency with common git operations.
- Strong communication skills, effectively conveying ideas to both technical and non-technical partners.
- Experience mentoring other engineers.
About Your Growth:
- During the first month, you'll attend onboarding sessions to understand our internal processes, pair with other engineers to learn about our tech stack, and familiarize yourself with our automated testing platforms.
- Within three months, you'll participate in code reviews, gain exposure to the platform's underlying infrastructure, and begin shipping more complex user-facing code.
- Within six months, you'll grow as a contributing member of a product team, providing input and insight to the rest of the team on challenges and feasibility of proposed development.
- Within twelve months, you'll solidify your understanding of the breadth of our tech stack, become a subject matter expert for the product team's areas of responsibility, and identify areas for improvement in our codebase.