Versant

Versant

Principal Software Engineer

Englewood Cliffs, NEW JERSEY, United States · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 days ago
ReactNode.jsBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewGitRedisElasticsearchAWSKubernetesCI/CDJenkinsDatadogPlatform EngineeringGraphQLAccessibilityJiraSEORecruitingUnityCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment.
  • Your voice will be key in helping us craft a technical vision that aligns with the goals of the organization, increases the effectiveness and reach of the frontend web team and ultimately maximizes revenue.
  • You can submit your request to candidateaccessibility@versantmedia.com.

Responsibilities

  • Build, test, review, and ship software for our platforms, including our suite of APIs and microservices, and web frontends
  • Drive collaboration on the design of system architecture, data models, data flows, schemas and API contracts
  • Facilitate cross-platform engineering discussions that lead to consistency, efficiency and unity within a multi-stack team.
  • Engage in code reviews that lead to high-quality software and team decisions.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teammates to define, design, scope, and ship user-impacting features.
  • Collaborate with relevant technical groups, such as backend and component library development teams, educating others about the work of the team and assuring strong integration between systems and high trust between groups.
  • Write and refine useful documentation that optimizes developer experience and onboarding for new teammates.
  • Define and champion engineering principles that lead to great developer experience, high application performance and all-around user satisfaction.
  • Solid understanding of core programming principles and design patterns
  • Ability to leverage build tools to enable cross-team module sharing and integration with third-party modules

Nice to have

  • Experience with contemporary backend development platforms, such as cloud services, container technologies and serverless backends.
  • A mobile-first mindset, paying special attention to accessibility, page optimization and/or SEO
  • Excels in an environment with cross-functional teams, working fluidly with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Software Developers, Editors, and other highly skilled specialists
  • Experience working in media/publishing
  • Our front-end framework of choice is React
  • Our data stores include PostgresSQL, and more.
  • We use GraphQL and ElasticSearch for queries and Redis for caching.
  • We use Node.js and Go in our backends.

Benefits

  • As a technical leader in our engineering community, your experience will be crucial in helping coach and mentor junior devs and have a direct impact on the architectural vision and strategy of our division.
  • Optimize team efficiency and output quality with strategies including unit-test coverage and working with QA on test automations.
  • Help define vision for long-term engineering goals.
  • Solid background writing tests and improving test quality and coverage

Visa & Work Authorization

  • ithout regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership i
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