Senior Software Engineer-Back End
We are growing the digital technology team to power the future of digital news and promote quality journalism. We’re looking for a smart and talented software engineer who wants to contribute to the future of journalism and fit into our culture of collaboration and innovation.
As a Senior Software Engineer-Back End, you will help enhance troncX’s digital subscription systems for properties like the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and other publications.
tronc, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRNC) is a media company rooted in award-winning journalism. Headquartered in Chicago, tronc operates newsrooms in nine markets with titles including the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida's Sun-Sentinel, Newport News, Virginia’s Daily Press, Allentown, Pennsylvania's The Morning Call, Hartford Courant, and The San Diego Union-Tribune. Our legacy of brands has earned a combined 94 Pulitzer Prizes and is committed to informing, inspiring and engaging local communities.
Our brands create and distribute content across our media portfolio, offering integrated marketing, media, and business services to consumers and advertisers, including digital solutions and advertising opportunities.Responsibilities:
- Works as part of a team to communicate, plan, design, develop, document, and implement high quality software solutions within the required timeframes using an Agile Software Development Methodology.
- Works on the most complex components of core systems with little or no guidance
- Mentors less-experienced team members
- Assist key stakeholders (i.e. software engineers, application support, operations, vendors) in troubleshooting issues as they arise
- Participate in department and interdepartmental projects as assigned
- Performs other duties as assigned by management
- 6-8+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Strong knowledge of software development methodologies, practices, and procedures, with an emphasis on Agile methodologies (XP or Scrum).
- Experience building n-tiered, high-volume, consumer-facing Internet applications using J2EE and J2EE design patterns.
- Experience implementing web sites utilizing Ruby on Rails.
- Expertise in JSP, Servlets and Java programming.
- Experience in Azure, AWS, or Google Compute cloud.
- Hands-on experience with application servers such as Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server, WebLogic, or WebSphere.
- Thorough knowledge of relational databases (Oracle, MySQL), schema design and implementation, JDBC, and SQL.
- Deep understanding of Object to Relational Mapping tools, such as EclipseLink or Hibernate.
- Experience with XML, JSON, JavaScript, HTTP(S), HTML, and Web Services.
- Experience working in UNIX environments (Solaris, Linux).
- Experience with search engines such as Elastic Search, Solr, or FAST is a plus.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communications skills.
- Ability to solve critical issues & work well under pressure
- Must be able to participate in occasional travel to other tronc business units, vendors, or client sites.