Hybrid Senior Software Engineer, Customer Platform

at Dotdash Meredith

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer, Customer Platform
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $189,592 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Docker, DynamoDB, Google Cloud Platform, Grafana, Kafka, Microservices, Postgres, Redis, Splunk
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

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