Senior Software Engineer, I

Posted 2 Days Ago
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Remote
5-7 Years Experience
AdTech • Consumer Web • Digital Media • eCommerce • Marketing Tech
Dotdash Meredith is among the largest and fastest growing publishers online, and has won over 50 awards in the last year
The Role
The Senior Software Engineer should have a love for technology and problem-solving, with a strong foundation in agile software development practices. Responsibilities include implementing new services, collaborating on infrastructure, owning production services, and contributing to coding standards and best practices.
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Remote or Hybrid 3x a month 

In-office Expectations: This position offers remote work flexibility; however, if you reside within a commutable distance to one of our offices in Edmonton (Canada), New York, Des Moines, Los Angeles, or Seattle, the expectation is to work from the office three times per month.

I. Job Summary | Major goals and objectives.

The Senior Software Engineer should have a love for technology and problem solving and a strong desire to deliver quality software as quickly as possible. A strong foundation in agile software development practices and a tendency and passion to stay current within the field are required, along with a drive to stay up-to-date with the latest industry technology trends.

II. Essential Job Functions

Weight % Accountabilities, Actions and Expected Measurable Results:

70%

You understand and will confidently address the challenges associated with delivering flexible, reliable, and highly performant services to drive engagement across our sites. You are capable of being hands-on with code and development tools. You will:

  • Implement new services, APIs, and operational monitoring functions that are scalable and reliable.

  • Work with other technology members to collaborate on overall infrastructure, best practices, and processes.

  • Own production services, investigate and resolve issues, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies.

  • Create and update thorough and readable living documentation for services.

  • Develop APIs that allow brand content to be processed, enhanced, and made available to customers through multiple channels.

  • Collaborate closely with other developers, designers, and product managers to define innovative ways to improve services.

  • Work closely with developers creating internal tools to monitor and inform stakeholders of data being processed by our systems.

30%

Contribute to best practices for coding conventions and standards. Ensure that code quality is high, and work with developers to improve if it is not.

  • Demonstrate passion for code quality and lead by example to produce high quality services and applications that meet timeline expectations to deliver value to the business.

  • Follow technologies relevant to the application and its domain and advocate for their use as appropriate.

III. Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements | All must be met to be considered.

Experience:

You have a fundamental knowledge of modern development techniques and trends, and you are not done learning. You have:

  • 6+ years of professional experience building and interacting with backend applications.

  • 5+ years of experience building software and services as a backend or full-stack developer using object oriented languages.

  • TypeScript, NodeJS and Python experience is required.

  • Experience with ElasticSearch is required.

  • Experience with event-driven architecture using Kafka is required.

  • Proficiency in Bitbucket, Git and other version control systems.

  • Knowledge with telemetry, logging and observability [Grafana, Kibana, Splunk].

  • Familiarity with cloud platforms - AWS, GCP and code deployment knowledge of containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.

  • Knowledge of serving models in production environments using MLOps workflows such as KubeFlow, MlFlow through containerization (e.g., Docker), including error handling and debugging techniques.

  • Experience with designing and implementing data pipelines using tools like Apache Beam, Apache Airflow to ingest, process, and transform data.

  • Familiarity with data preprocessing and feature engineering techniques.

  • Familiarity with experiment management systems like Jupyter Notebooks, Apache Spark, to track and reproduce experiments.

  • Good understanding of machine learning concepts, including supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, and natural language processing.

  • Experience with testing frameworks like Jest, Cypress. 

  • Expertise in developing and consuming RESTful and GraphQL APIs.

  • Experience with API versioning, documentation, and security best practices (e.g, OAuth, JWT).

  • Ability to provide constructive feedback during code reviews and refinement sessions.

  • The ability to make yourself understood to both technical and non-technical audiences.

  • Great analytical and problem-solving skills. 

  • Curious about new technologies with a drive to pursue change.

  • Passionate interests in exploring advanced AI and LLM technologies and how it can help power our components.

 

Specific Knowledge, Skills, Certifications and Abilities:

Elastic Search, Kafka, Python, Typescript, Node.js, Vector DB 

% Travel Required (Approximate): 0%

Top Skills

Node.js
Python
Typescript

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The Company
Chicago, IL
846 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1996

What We Do

Dotdash Meredith's vibrant brands help over 100 million users each month find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. Dotdash is among the largest and fastest growing publishers online, and has won over 50 awards in the last year alone, including Digiday's 2020 Publisher of the Year. Dotdash Meredith brands include Verywell, Investopedia, The Balance, The Spruce, Simply Recipes, Serious Eats, Byrdie, Brides, People, Food & Wine, Shape, Entertainment Weekly, Travel & Leisure, Better Homes and Gardens, Southern Living, Health, InStyle, Parents, EatingWell, Magnolia Journal, MyDomaine, Lifewire, TripSavvy, Liquor.com, and TreeHugger.

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