Staff Software Engineer specializing in data infrastructure for Instacart's data governance and compute systems. Collaborating with engineering teams to enhance the platform's reliability and performance.
About the role
- Software Engineer developing customer-facing products and enhancing user experience for CNN's Digital Commerce team. Collaborating with engineering teams and practicing innovative software development principles.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the engineering and platforms team to build and enhance commerce products such as the CNN Underscored.
- Exhibit good system engineering skills (e.g., common industry database design and practices, application architectures, operating systems concepts, networking, etc.) in addition to skills in application development.
- Design and implement complex features that enhance the user experience.
- Identify requirements for the improvement of the publishing platform to assist editors.
- Recommend new features that will help CNN Underscored expand and improve the end user experience.
- Partner across multiple teams to build and improve engineering projects that cultivate CNN’s audience growth.
- Develop and champion improved processes for insight collection and dissemination across core engineering tools and products.
- Support short-term content planning processes with editorial and programming teams.
- Mentor team members and cultivate cooperation and implement best practices regarding engineering workflows.
- Passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of ownership for the code that you and your team write.
- Demonstrable excellent design skills and the related strengths in clearly articulating difficult technical concepts and information.
- Display engineering ability to critically evaluate code as a method of learning and knows when and how to safely refactor code/artifacts.
- Participate in on-call responsibilities as needed alongside the commerce engineering team.
Requirements
- B.S./M.S. or higher in Computer Science, Software or other Engineering or related field required.
- 5-10 years of software development experience, with a strong focus on application development.
- 5+ years of Node.JS, Express, React experience at least.
- Proficient in modern JavaScript, Typescript, and Python using AWS services, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
- Expert level when working with modern engineering technologies such as Fastly, AWS, Serverless/SAM, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, Snowflake and Git.
- Deep industry experience with modern development technologies, and hands-on familiarity with both client and server technology.
- Have a solid understanding of common software data structures and algorithms.
- A passion to grow professionally and continue developing along an individual contributor path.
- Previous involvement in building medium to large-scale, "mission critical", "high availability" production systems that directly support essential business and technical, or operational functions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to simplify and describe complex problems to non-engineering peers.
- Experience working in e-commerce, affiliate platforms, and consumer media.
- Experience working on Kanban/Scrum teams and the tools used for project management.
- Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum or Kanban).
Benefits
- health insurance coverage
- an employee wellness program
- life and disability insurance
- a retirement savings plan
- paid holidays and sick time
- vacation
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