Senior Software Engineer 1
Dotdash Meredith5 days ago
Base Salary
$150k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, highly available services, APIs, features, and enhancements.
- Own production services end to end by monitoring performance, investigating issues, resolving bottlenecks, and improving reliability and cost efficiency.
- Lead technical design and architecture discussions while identifying and prioritizing technical debt.
- Lead code reviews, mentor engineers, establish shared engineering practices, and advocate for code quality.
- Partner with data, web, mobile, product, design, quality-assurance, and technical leadership teams to translate requirements into implementations.
- Create technical documentation and contribute to automated test coverage and feature testing.
- Analyze user stories, provide technical feedback, translate requirements into technical tasks, and estimate effort.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, or relevant industry experience.
- At least 5 years of relevant professional technology experience.
- Deep understanding of service architecture, monitoring, horizontal scalability, and production systems with service-level agreements.
- Extensive experience with object-oriented and functional software design patterns and large web application platforms.
- Experience developing and owning complex, highly available production services and applications deployed on AWS or GCP.
- Experience with containers, continuous integration, and codified infrastructure.
- Extensive experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and NestJS; some knowledge of Java and GraphQL.
- Familiarity with HTML/CSS and frontend frameworks such as Vue or Nuxt is strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of NoSQL data stores, graph databases, indexing, distributed locking, media transformation, and search engines such as Elasticsearch or Solr.
- Experience working in an Agile environment and translating user stories into technical tasks and effort estimates.
- Experience leading architecture discussions, advocating for technical approaches, and mentoring team members.
- Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, technical judgment, and continued-learning skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule with three days per week in the office and up to two remote days per week.
- 0% travel required.
- New York salary range of $150,000-$175,000, excluding this figure from benefits.
- Medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, life, disability, accident, and supplemental insurance options.
- Unlimited paid time off, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave.
- Adoption or surrogate assistance, family care benefits, commuter benefits, pet insurance, and donation matching.
- Tuition reimbursement, health savings and flexible spending accounts, and a 401(k) savings plan with company match.
- Voluntary critical illness and hospital indemnity insurance options.
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